Here is another beautiful boy sporting his new hair cut.  Andy is a wonderful young man.  Not too sure about that camera pointing at him.  He is so sweet!

Say "Hello" to Mackey!  He is the cutest thing on 4 paws and smart as a a whip.  He is not very tall, but fast, fast, fast, fast, fast!  When he stops running, he sits.

What a beautiful day, what a beautiful boy!

I am still in such a wonderful frame of being right now.  I attended a PPGBA (Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area) meeting yesterday evening.  The speaker (Laurie Klein) was fabulous.  She spoke about how she was constantly having to reinvent herself and intention manifestation.   All right up my alley!  This was followed by a print competition where we were able to enter two prints (usually it is only one).  There were so many prints in the "Portrait" catagory, as each one went by, my heart pounded harder and harder, I could barely breath...then finally, the title was read, "Dinner Is Served"  The room exploded with chuckles of laughter and delight as my portrait of Gromit the Boxer Dog was turned to face the judges....still holding breathe....score of 83!  WooHoo!!!  To many of you that may not mean much, but in the grand scheme of things, it's really good, the print earned a merit. 

This was followed by "Bah Hum Bug"  which scored and 80...also a merit!  What a great evening for me.  "Dinner Is Served" was high print score in the Portrait category!

I went hiking with the Hubby and Gromit yesterday.  It's the hubs day off and I normally have him take the dog out, but I felt like getting some fresh air and decided to bring my camera along.  There are so many trees and paths that make wonderful alley ways.  Love how this one came out.

It's All About Light

I have been playing with a couple of ideas the past couple of days.  One is in studio on an all white background, while the other is outdoors with the catch light in the eyes and the warm tones of sunset.  I have also been experimenting a bit with some post processing on the white background image.  I kinda like it...I like the concept for sure!  Now, how to improve!

Both were shot with the 85mm f1.8 lens.  Been playing with it quite a bit lately.  I really like what I am getting from it too!

Big Red Heart

It has been really windy the past few days and my allergies are kicking my butt, so focusing outdoors while trying to photograph is rather difficult in between my eyes blurring up or watering.  Today was a beautiful sunny day, but that wind.  I was hoping to experiment some more with on camera flash.  Instead I played in the studio.  I just love the results!

How could you not just not love that face?!?!

Today was just incredible!!!!  Was up early, took Gromit out to the Harbor to run...we met up with Guzzi and his mom so Gromit and Guzzi ran and wrestled and ran some more.  I needed that, Gromit needed that.  All of that was done and we were back home before 7:45.  Good thing too!  Had to leave the house and be at the harbor by 8:30 to check-in for our Whale Watching Tour!!!!  Thank you to Captain Guy of the New Gravy for an excellent adventure!!!!