Posted on September 30, 2011 in Animals, Black and White, People, Pet Photography
Oh, it’s all serious business in this image as the Weimaraner and handler are in the ring setting up for the judge. But just prior to this there was some serious snacking going on….just take a look below. Often at dog shows the kennel club will put out snacks while the group judging is taking place. In this instance, a man was sitting ringside munching on some potato chips when the dog caught a wiff of them! He wouldn’t leave until he had a few! 🙂
Posted on September 29, 2011 in Fall, Landscape, Nature
On my way home from an appointment today I saw a double rainbow. From my experience it seems that rainbows appear and disappear again pretty quickly. But today I was able to watch the rainbow for nearly 1/2 hour of driving time. It was so pretty! I happened to have my camera in the car so I pulled over and took a couple images, but they just don’t do the scene justice. Once back home in my community I noticed that the trees are starting to show some signs of color, so I snapped this image of the road I travel every day. When I see this scene before me I know that I am almost home! The same image is below in black and white.
Posted on September 28, 2011 in Animals, Pet Photography
Photographing dogs is tough – especially when they want to wiggle and not sit still. Photographing more than one dog at the same time and getting them to sort of “pose” when you are taking candid photos is even harder. These two Powder Puff Chinese Crested dogs were sitting and waiting to go into the show ring. I was using my 200mm lens and was a distance away just photographing them until finally they both looked in the same direction. Do you prefer the ears trimmed or not trimmed? The un-trimmed version reminds me of a Papillion. The other variety of Chinese Crested is the Hairless variety – they only have hair on their head, tail and feet and none on their bodies. For today’s trivia….hair on the head is called a crest, hair on the tail is called a plume and hair on the feet is called socks. 🙂
Posted on September 27, 2011 in Animals, Pet Photography
A couple of weeks ago I posted an image of a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, or at least the nose of a WPG, and asked folks to identify the breed. It was a bit tough to distinguish between this breed and the German Wirehaired Pointer because they look very much alike. Well, at the last dog show I attended, I attempted to photograph both breeds together so that I could compare them and hopefully do a better of job of recognizing which is which. I wasn’t able to get an image of them together, but I did photograph both breeds. Above is the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon and below is the German Wirehaired Pointer. Both are beautiful dogs! In the top image, the WPG is poking his head out from under his handler’s skirt – so cute!
Posted on September 26, 2011 in Animals, Pet Photography
A furry place to rest your head….that’s what friends are for!