Back light, water and high shutter speeds...FUN!!

Hooray for Sunshine and Free Time!

I should just blog daily photos....what is there to say? The sun is shining, the trails are gorgeous, the equipment is out and I am fortunate enough to have time to spend with my friend and the dogs...good day today!

Magpie?

There is a part of me that likes shiny things. Perhaps I'm a bit like a Magpie or a Crow. I don't usually take Zephyr's ribbons from sanctioned trials anymore, but starting a new dog, well how can I refuse.

I went to the first Dog Agility Ontario trial this past weekend. I think this new club did a great job putting the trial on and I did have a lot of fun. Was I ready to be there, well no, but myself and the dogs had fun and left with smiles on our faces.

Zephyr has been off of agility all winter, the last couple weeks we have just been doing small jump drills for fitness, but have not run a full course yet....it shows! Zen has not run any full courses either and has just had her jumps put up to full height....so yes jumping the gun!!

Things have changed since I started agility years ago. Trials used to cost almost half of what they do now, the dogs won rosettes and the clubs hired teenagers to run leashes and be ring crew. Oh well at the end of the day we all had fun, we love our dogs and those shiny things....do they even matter? No.

Blue Sky

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day"-Thoreau

I couldn't agree more. Here is a happy Zephyr near the end of yesterdays hike. The sky, the clouds just perfect for photos. Zephyr, perfect for photos. And loving that fish-eye lens.

I have an agility trial tomorrow....sort of wishing now I hadn't jumped the gun and entered this one. We are so out of practise, we have not run full courses yet (just got most of my equipment outside) so I know I will not run well. Poor dogs. Well, we will just go and have fun and give Zen some ring time and Zephyr will be his accommodating self. I'm sure as I arrive there in the morning with the sun, and look at the course maps, I will be thinking that I should have gone hiking!!



Testing Testing!!

First test run of the GoPro camera. Lots of fun will be had! I am happy with the results considering I was shooting blind and trying to run the dogs at the same time...you can tell by the way they have their striding off and such!

Youtube kills the quality a bit so at least watch in the high quality.

Hmmmm, maybe I should have washed my dogs first too! We had been for a VERY muddy hike before this. Oh well more true to life, my dogs dirty from the trails. I'm also not sure why the dogs look so heavy...maybe the wide lens.