Goofy dog Storm

Miss this.

Saying goodbye.

We said goodbye to our oldest dog - our first dog - this week. This photo of Kona was taken last July the day before his 13th birthday.



Donnett's Kona Coffee Bean RN WD
July 16 1997 - January 11 2011

You were a great dog and we miss you like crazy.

The old boy

Drama

(Could be subtitled "No matter how much preparation and planning you put into a shoot, if your flash batteries are dead you may end up with a different photo than the one you intended".)

Headshots

For a while now I've been wanting to get headshots of the dogs, process them similarly, and then get them up on the wall. I wanted individual photos but they needed to be cohesive and obviously go together.

I am not sure these are my final choices, but for now they'll do. I have them here as a set just so I can see how they work together - when we get them printed up they'll be individual and cropped differently.

And, bonus photo, here's another headshot I got of Caiman the other day. I love the flowers in the background.

Christmas Riv

Konehead

Buddy

This photo made it onto Explore on Flickr. I don't really understand how that works, mind you, but there it is.

Bella

Tinted Willow

I really liked the processing in a photo Kerrie posted recently and set out to try to create something similar. As often happens mine took a turn part way through working on it. I like how this looks old and wintery rather than new and springlike.

B&W grass and Rivet

This photo was underexposed but I like it anyway - the texture of the grass and Rivet's outline as she checks out who has been by recently.

Flying ears

The spotlight is on Rivet

Thanks goes out to The Great and Wonderful Food Lady for suggesting that I try B&W with this photo.

Kona's coat

Love the way the waves look in this photo.

Rivet's ginormous rope bone ball

... is starting to disintigrate.



She's getting anxious about it.



Poor beast.

Flailing Rivet

AKA Peanut butter face.



I meant to take more photos of the dogs today and then cleverly left it so late that I had to use the flash. The flash I don't know how to use. The flash I changed the settings on and am not quite sure what I did. That flash. Still took photos anyway on the grounds that it would be good for me. The dogs approve of any activity involving peanut butter so there were no complaints there.

Whirled Rivet

Rivet, four ways

I am dying to put text on this also but I can't think of a single witty thing to say, so I left it without words.

Rivet, with tongue

This perspective is providing me with great amusement these days. I stood on a stool to get this one, but I think next time I might go higher.