The art of the donkey selfie

Posted on September 7, 2015September 10, 2015 by Gareth Thomas

I grew a beard over the summer so I decided it was time to update my avatar for WordPress. I thought it would be an easy job because all I wanted was a donkey selfie and none of the donkeys had grown beards over the summer, so it should have been straightforward.

Nothing involving a donkey is ever straightforward. These are just the worst: there were 136 more.

20150905_153159 — Rubi and Morris eating my hat

20150905_151508 — Just Matilde’s ear. Not really enough donkey for a donkey selfie.

20150905_152817 — Aitana’s bottom selfie.

20150905_153302 — Donkey lost interest in selfie

20150905_153134 — Final acceptable donkey selfie with Morris. A bit sad but that’s the best we will get.

How did other people manage?

The clear winner must be Deb Collins Kidwell because she has a donkey the size of a giraffe and managed to get the whole animal in the picture. Runner up prize goes to Liz Barrett for a donkey selfie with a big chicken.

And finally the above, with donkeys queuing up for selfies… from Ivybridge donkey assisted therapy centre, thanks to @BhamDonkeys via Twitter.

7 thoughts on “The art of the donkey selfie”

Steve says:

September 8, 2015 at 1:01 am

One of the donks looks a lot like a rooster.

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Gareth Thomas says:

September 9, 2015 at 2:27 pm

No, that is a donkey in a chicken costume.

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Jack Hughes says:

September 9, 2015 at 11:29 pm

I take it that you had to use Morris as Rubi was too busy preparing for thinking Tuesday ?

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Gareth Thomas says:

September 10, 2015 at 7:08 am

In fact I was trying to get the donkey selfie with Rubí, as she is generally more cooperative unless she is in a bad mood (or when the farrier is visiting to trim hooves), but on this occasion she was more interested in eating my hat. Morris simply turned up and posed neatly for the selfie, but he hasn’t got his tongue hanging out, which would have made it better!

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Annie says:

September 12, 2015 at 4:21 pm

Donkeys seem to be very affectionate creatures, going by the pictures you’ve put up. Morris looks like a pro at posing for pictures!

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Deb Collins Kidwell says:

October 21, 2015 at 10:32 pm

Thank you Gareth for sharing the photo of me with Genesis, and of my friend Liz with her donkey/chicken! Great photos all!

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Gareth Thomas says:

October 22, 2015 at 7:13 am

My pleasure! I have since seen a whole bunch more donkey-selfies and I am going to write on this subject again. The donkey-selfie is a particular art form that deserves serious academic attention. Maybe we can persuade a professor of semiotics at a struggling university to take on a postgraduate research assistant and do a full exploration of Camera Asina: The Semiology of the Donkey-selfie in Postmodern Equine Culture.

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