published

wohooo my book arrived a few days ago and these are a couple of shots of it.  I had a picture published in the book by chuck sambuchino.  its a political humor book.  he found my picture on flickr and asked if he could use it so of course I said yes.  I have photo credits in the book but no money, thats ok with me just fun to see a picture in a book.



the saying was done by Chuck but funny enough I say something very close to that all the time.  I say like it leave it.




if you would like a copy you can find one on amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Dog-Blue-Pooches-Political/dp/0762446390/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345957801&sr=1-3&keywords=chuck+sambuchino

success

ahhh finally a good shot of trouble the poodle.  As I have said before black dogs are so hard

birdbath

thats trouble behind the birdbath. my mother in laws precious dog.  he is so sweet but darn are black dogs hard to get a good photo of.  and I thought white dogs were hard nope black is harder.

we always take pictures of birdbaths a little family private joke.

edward my sweet

is that not a cute face?  well its a begging face and the only way he would come near me is if I had food.  sweet dog a pound dog that was abused so that now he is a little skittish of people. Honestly I don't understand how anyone can hurt something like that.

he loves his mom (my niece) and he eventually comes around.

sunbathed beauty week 9

well I just had to post this one of my friends dog sadie.  she was all dressed up for a party we had doesn't she look cute?  with the sun coming in and back lighting her I she looks so angelic. especially sunlight has been in low supply this year so far.

want to be famous?

cut up some meet for all the visiting dogs at a party.  Missing 2 (for a total of 9 dogs) from this picture boy did we had a crew that night.

Shadows week 8

To make shadows you need light something we haven't seen much since we have had a million days of rain. But Monday there was a bit of sunshine after work so the dog and I walked. Taken with my phone and edited in snapseed

See other shadow post at this link.

http://www.52photosproject.com/

smile

I love this shot of my neice's dog smiling.  way to go pico
cropped for his face:




full view here:

weary traveler

this was the first long road trip for our dog Duncan.  He was so good in the car too.  most of the trip he slept getting up for water, treats and potty stops is all.



of course we brought along his favorite blanket and a new toy to keep him company.

Black and white week 7

this weeks challenge is black and white.  this was tougher than I thought it would be.  in my mind I had an idea we were recently with my inlaws and there are many dogs.  several from teh same family and they are black one of them is below.  well my dog is white so I thought it would be fun to have them together but I wasn't fond of that picture.  so chose this one.  here it is in black and white after an edit in lightroom



and in color



not sure which I prefer.  that little black dog is hard to photograph.  

liberty lake waterfall

yeah the crowd roars we made it to the waterfall



bet you are glad I finally got somewhere with all these posts right? haha well I am the weekend warrior so need to spread out the trip.

we stopped for lunch here and enjoyed the view.  so proud of our little chunky monkey dog for making the trip too.  he is really a couch potato and its hard for those little legs to go but he did.  and of course he got some good lunch too.  one quick pose and we were headed back down the mountain.

duncan tip toes through the tulips

springtime photo opt for the dog.  it was just killing him to because a squirrel was just over the fence.  Oh well I got 3 shots in before losing his attention this was my favorite.

Instagram

Do you do InstagramDo? Was playing round with it lately and did this photo of duncan

Happy St. Patricks day!!!

May you be blessed with lots of green.



yeah he doesn't look to happy does he?  good thing it was only for a few moments and he got a treat afterwards.

Happy valentines Day

HAPPY VALENTINES FROM DUNCAN

got your hat and tails??

The tree and decorations are up and Duncan has decided to dress up a bit for the moment.  hmmm looks like someone needs a haircut.  looks more like a pauper waiting for his coal for christmas. hahaha.  

so is everyone ready for the holidays?  

linking up with tracy's trinkets and treasures check out the other pooches.

http://tracys-trinkets-treasures.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-photo-of-your-pet-linky-party_09.html

also linking up with I heart faces

http://www.iheartfaces.com/

autumn means

time for the annual dog in the leave shot.



shot with my point and shoot since I had it handy when we were raking leaves AGAIN.  I did add a template by shadowhouse - if you have never seen his blog go there some very cool free downloads.  he does some amazing stuff. http://shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com/

with fall comes less traveling and less time outside for me because I really hate the cold so posts may come a little less often but may try some new techniques on older pictures and other ideas to keep my motivated so you never know what will show up next.

working on some ideas for 2012 to present when they are all ready to go I will announce them. Anything you would like to see more of or less of or new???

good vs evil

Happy Halloween everyone will you be getting tricks or treats?? 




this year Duncan couldn't decide if he was Good .....



or Evil.....



either way he is sure to get a few extra treats.

hope everyone has a save and happy halloween.

MIYA

my niece got a new dog a few weeks ago this is her on the first day home  around 8 to 10 weeks old.  TOOO CUTE I tel you. This is a long hair chiauaua. (spelling???)  a purse dog.  we dubbed it a miniture st. bernard though because of the colors.  she thinks she is that big too. 

magic trick

I learned a new trick.  How to make an animated GIF (keeping fingers crossed that this works on the blog it did work in a test email)  Thanks to Geri at My Heart Art.  I will post the link also in my tips section but check her out.

tip #2 to get this to work in blogger I found this information:

http://www.just2techy.com/2011/03/how-to-upload-gif-animation-to-blogger.html

Tip #3 - upload to flickr and when posting to your blog ONLY use the original size