Let the grooming begin!  The wind on Saturday was outrageous!  Wind gusts threatened to pull down tents at the Bucks County Kennel Club Dog Show in Erwinna, Pa.   All day long workers kept an eye on the stakes holding the tents down while the dog handlers and groomers worked feverishly to ensure that the dogs looked their best for the show.   Bathing, shampooing, blow drying, brushing, combing …. all to be undone by the first wind gust!   Here the Chinese Crested seems to love the feel of the wind blowing through it’s hair…what little hair it has!  Chinese Crested’s come in two varieties – hairless and powder puff.  This is the hairless variety which sports hair on the head, tail and around the feet, but no where else! 

Yesterday I went to the Bucks County Kennel Club Dog Show and it was a wonderful event!  There were many great opportunities for photographing the interaction between dogs and people.  Love was definitely in the air and there were lots of hugs and kisses being shared!  Ya gotta love receiving that unexpected kiss from a new friend!  🙂

So I have this image from the Harrisburg Kennel Club Dog Show that I really love, but it was pretty badly blurred.  It features a Brittany named Lucky who just happens to be “lucky” enough to receive a smooch from an adorable little girl.  I decided to fool around with the image in Photoshop and see if there was anything I could do to salvage the shot.  Above is the result of some playing with the “poster edges” filter.  The filter makes the image appear more like a drawing with “speckles”.  That’s my scientific explanation!  🙂   Now I am much happier with this image!    I really hate it when I only have one shot at a great photo and I mess up!  Blah!