This weekend is the Harrisburg Kennel Club Dog Show at the Farm Show Complex.  Definitely a fun event that I try to attend every year.  Not only do I love seeing all of the different breeds of dogs, but I love to photograph them.   This year I tried a new approach.  In the past I’ve been experimenting with different lighting techniques, on-camera flash, bounced flash, no flash, etc.  Yesterday I photographed exclusively with my Canon 135mm f/2.8 lens [ & no flash] which was tough because there was no zoom.  I prefer to keep a distance from the dogs so as not to scare them, but the prime lens forced me to move around a lot instead of being able to compose more easily with the zoom in camera.  I tried renting a Canon 70-200 f/2.8 but it was just too heavy to carry around all day and a tripod/monopod just doesn’t work at the dog show.   I have a fair amount of images that I like and have posted them on my website here:   http://www.betsydallasphoto.com/Dog%20Show%20April%202010.html   They are the cutest dogs ever and I just wanted to hug them all!   The photo above shows a Tibetan Spaniel and handler waiting to go into the show ring.