LITTLEBLACKDOG.COM

Butt Sniffer Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1615

TOMaxwell wrote:
FOUND: Hiding in the pool this a.m.:

Is it "hiding" or dead?

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:48 am Post subject:

AnalogKid wrote:
Is it "hiding" or dead?

Mine Doggie chased it in there, where it stayed, motionless, for almost a half hour.

I have not seen this one previously. I believe it is one of George and Gracie's offspring. I think I'll call him Ziggie Marley.

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject:

AnalogKid wrote:
TOMaxwell wrote:
FOUND: Hiding in the pool this a.m.:

Is it "hiding" or dead?

Waiting, waiting to pounce Shocked

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

BAHAHAHAHAHA!

what?

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject:

Mountain Goat:

Bighorn Sheep:

Columbian Ground Squirrel:

Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels (and my Dad):

Butt Sniffer Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1615

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

Elk:

Elk calf, point-blank with 35mm f/4.5 lens, scanned from a film print:

Elk:

Canada Geese:

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:31 am Post subject:

AnalogKid wrote:

awesome!

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: Golden Retrievers

My Dad has a pair of golden retrievers.

This is Sabrina in her favorite spot on the front porch:

This is Mindy:

...and Sport:

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: Miniature Schnauzers

These are my cousin's dogs:

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: Squirrel

My neighbor's cat was stalking squirrels late on this cloudy and gray afternoon.

The squirrels complained loudly. Using spot exposure had this squirrel nicely exposed even though I was shooting up into the light sky.

What I believe is cool about this photo of a female squirrel is the exposure: 1/25s at 300mm (480mm equivalent), hand-held. Cool

Observations: The autofocus "clack" distracts the wildlife. The image stabilization rattle also distracts me slightly. The new lens is quite noticeably noisier than my other two. Image stabilization allowed me to take a picture of a male squirrel on the ground just as he bobbed his head. At 1/25s, the grass is very sharp, but the squirrel's head is a smooth blur. The diagonal patterns in the blurred backgrounds for long exposures are a bit odd. I wonder if this is the direction that I moved the camera when I pressed the shutter button and the pattern is an artifact of the IS.

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

Gracie is either pregnant (again) or constipated.

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

This squirrel may be pregnant, too:

f/5.6, 1/25s, ISO 800, 300mm (480mm equivalent), hand-held

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: Chirp, chirp, chirp!

This small fellow chirped loudly enough that I finally spotted him amongst the pine needles.

Here's a 1600x1200 crop:

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: It was snowing...

I tried taking a picture of the ducks struggling to get upstream. This was when there was still some upstream to get...

The stream behind our house usually gets a max of about 2 feet of ice from the far bank. The ducks like playing on it and jumping into the water. This morning, between the snow and the 5 degree temperatures and the wind, there was only about 2 feet of open water at its narrowest.

I was trying to photograph the ducks struggling to get upstream, but between the snow and the fact that I was shooting through a window it didn't come out too well. Shows you what it was like, though.

The snow was kind of like bean bag pellets made of ice coming down. Not quite hail.