Happy New Year!

Watching the Ball Drop

Daily Dog Challenge 2251. "Eat, Drink and Be Merry"

Our Daily Challenge - December 31, 2017 - "Ring(s) or Ringing"

Dog Blog Post #2448

Enjoying a few New Year's Day snacks

Canine Cannoli

Yes, those are dog cookies! Canine Cannoli by Tale Bangers, from the local pet store.

Daily Dog Challenge 2252. "Full Circle"

Our Daily Challenge - December 31, 2017 - "Celebrate the Commonplace"

Photography Assignment

Henry on Patrol. For what? I haven't a clue.

Daily Dog Challenge 2253. "Back to Work"

Our Daily Challenge - January 2, 2017 - "Onward"

118 Pictures in 2018 - #31: "Follow the Path"

Fun with a Tissue Paper and a Macro Lens

I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but my Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens is my favorite for everyday shooting, and the lens I use the vast majority of the time. Don't let the word Macro scare you off (actually, inexplicably, Nikon calls it "Micro"). If you don't want to get up close and personal with things you don't need to, and it works just fine (better than fine!) as a "normal" lens.

The lens of mine that takes the BEST pictures (it's not even close) is the Nikkor 135mm f/2.0, a gorgeous portrait lens that I really should use more often. Alas, I need to be 20 feet away from the boys to get them both in the picture. It's doable, I just need to plan their poses a bit more carefully.

Hmm... I really should break it out for the New Year. Every time I do I wonder why I ever took it off.

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Merry Christmas!

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Christmas Morning

The Day After

Dog Blog Post #2447

For some reason, Henry's the star of everything today.

Photography Assignment

As always, click on any image to read the challenge(s).

Henry's Whiskers

Editor's Note:

Getting my planner (and resolutions) set up for the New Year. 

I'm arranging things a bit differently in 2018 to try and get a better shooting/post-processing/rest-of-my-life balance, which hopefully will result in more pictures showing up here - not hard to do, I know.

My goal is to get post-processing time down from what it was (~90 minutes a night!) but Good Camera usage up (it has been practically zero, of late) so... we'll see.

Fingers crossed.


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Still Here!

Yes, we're still here.

Just enjoying a bit of a break.

Still uploading to Flickr - usually on Sunday, plus sporadically during the week.

Still taking a picture a day of the boys.

Deck the Howls?

Sleepy Mr. Zachary

You know it's getting cold when Henry puts his coat on

Dog Blog Post #2446

Mostly we were busy working on the backyard. Then switched to the front yard. Now we're (trying to) turn out attention to the inside.

Somewhere in there Hubby and I managed to catch a pair of colds. Each.

Oh yeah, and Football.

(football... football... football...)

The Raiders, despite their best efforts, still aren't out of it.

The Niners?

Well, there's always next year.

Looking forward to the Holidays and getting back into the rhythms of taking nightly pictures with the GOOD camera. I just need to figure out how to not spend so much time processing.

Bitey-Paw?

Goofy Golden! (Zachary)

.Goofy Golden (again - still Zachary)

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