Category Archives: Places  Most dog photography is of dogs in “pet” mode. The photographer is using a relatively short lens and is interacting directly with the dog while shooting, often keeping the dog’s attention by waving a yummy treat in front of his face. This results in a photo with the dog looking towards the camera with total…  This handsome and elegant Smooth Fox Terrier is Dodger (CH J’Cobe Vigilante Justice), who swept the dog world off its feet in 2010 and retired from his American show career as the top dog in the country as well as the top-winning Smooth Fox Terrier of all time. Still very much in his prime,…  The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is the quintessential water dog among the sporting breeds. It’s a sturdy dog with an even sturdier coat, and a non-nonsense approach to the task at hand. This is an American breed, developed to be masterful in the hunt of waterfowl. This is Coupe (GCh Quailridge’s Coupe De Ville), photographed at…  These dogs are having a conversation. What do you think they’re saying? What do you think happens after this - a game or a fight? Please leave your thoughts below.  There were some great comments to the photo in Quiz 1 (you can read them here). Most people thought the dogs were playing based on body position and balance, tail carriage, the lack of tension in the face of the brown dog (no wrinkling on the muzzle), and the non-aggressive face of the dane and…  What about this one? Fun or Fight? Leave your thoughts below… —————— See the rest of the photos at Fun or Fight? Quiz 2 Redeaux! Incoming search terms:aggression dogcarol beuchat fun or fightphotography dog husky funfun or fight?photo 2 fun  Welcome to the first “FUN OR FIGHT?” Quiz! (If you missed the Introduction to these quizzes, you can read it here.) These quizzes are going to test your understanding of dog behavior and communication. Below is a photo taken at a dog park. Decide whether the dogs are playing or fighting (or thinking about playing… How well do your understand dog behavior? Understanding what your dog is thinking, feeling, and trying to communicate can be harder than you think. If you don’t know what to look for in your dog’s behavior and body language, you might not be able to tell the difference between fun and a fight, or whether…  We think of photography as capturing “a moment in time”, but how long is a moment? With a fast enough shutter speed you can freeze action without blur, and the resulting photos can allow us to see events that happen too quickly to see with the eye. But the camera can also record events happening…  My new 2012 Dog Calendar is hot off the press, featuring photos that will appear in my forthcoming book, DOGSPLAY: The Joy of Being A Dog (due out any day as well). These are wonderful photos of dogs having fun that I think you’ll really enjoy looking at over the next 12 months. You can…  Sally, my English Springer Spaniel (12.5 yrs), with a new friend (3 yrs?) she met at the local dog park.  I’m so excited to announce my first eBook of photography, DOGPLAY: The Amazing Ways Dogs Play, which will become available on 1 November on Amazon for (only!) $0.99. These are astonishing images – of teeth, tugs, nips, and bulging eyeballs (but especially TEETH!) – of dogs in their own world playing as dogs do, in the…  Somehow, this doesn’t seem fair. Incoming search terms:loose skin on dogsloose skin dogmagazine covers with weimaraner dogdog skin looseflabby dogfloppy skin dogloose skinweimaraner loose skin  Know when to say Uncle. Incoming search terms:great dane mastiff mixmastiff great dane mixmastiff dane mixgreat dane husky mixweimaraner mastiff mixgreat dane bull mastiff mixhusky great dane mixgreat dane dog fightbull mastiff dane mixgreat dane mix  Two can play. Incoming search terms:weimaraner husky mixamerican bulldog pointer mixweinheimer dogweimaraner mixboxer springer spaniel mixgerman shorthair weimaraner mixspringer spaniel german shorthair mixpointer i jack terrier mixjack russell terrier weimaraner mixweinheimer dog photographer  …ever so gently. Incoming search terms:dogs playing frisbeedog biting dogs legdog biting legdogs play biting  Go ahead. Just try to take it. Incoming search terms:bulldog ballbulldog ballsbulldogs ballsdogs play ballscaring bulldogsharing is caring  Take advantage of your opponent’s weaknesses. Incoming search terms:human dogdog biting ears other dogsspaniel earsbull terrier pullingnormal dog earpulling dog earsenglish bull terrier earsdog pulling other dogdog biting another dogs earpulling other dogs ear  Some of the many things dogs love to do. Incoming search terms:dog play happydogs playdog teeth scratchhappy dogs teethwelsh terrier scratch and sniffwhat do dogs play  Two friends having a great time. Incoming search terms:basset hound teethhappy teethhappy teeth dog  I was going to go forward from the last SHOOT THE DOG post on shutter speed to discuss aperture and how it can affect the look of your photos. But I took some photos at the dog park the other day that are great for illustrating the effects of shutter speed on action photography. Incoming…  In my last post to SHOOT THE DOG, you learned how the exposure meter of your camera works and why it sometimes does a good job of creating a properly exposed photo, while other times it doesn’t. I hope you’ve invested in a gray card to keep in your camera bag – I can’t think…  The Wirehaired Pointing Griffon is a breed you don’t hear much about. It was devloped in Holland in the 1870′s by Eduard Karel Korthals, who wanted a hunting dog that would stay close to the hunter on foot, could hunt any game in any terrain in any weather, and would come home at the end…  The Manchester Terrier might be the best kept secret in the Terrier Group. Handsome in an understated way, with a slick black coat and stylish mahogany tan accents on the head, chest, and legs, he is civilized – cuddly even – at home, but all terrier when he’s on duty keeping the grounds free of…  The Irish Water Spaniel is one of the lesser known sporting dogs in the US, but those that know the breed understand that dogs can have a sense of humor – for them, life is Disneyland and is meant to be enjoyed every minute. With their curly coat, naked tail, and topknot falling over their…  I don’t do a lot of photography at night. It’s really dark. It’s so hard to see. And besides, I’m diurnal. But nothing ventured, nothing gained. So, faced with failing light on a photo shoot, I decided to see what I could do with a black dog at the beach.  Meet Bunny. She can wiggle her nose. Who knew?! After I returned to the States from South Africa in June 2003, one of the first shows I went to was the Hound specialty weekend in Lompoc, a little town near the coast of California midway between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. I didn’t really…  Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, to no small degree because of its stunning coastline. The beaches are to die for – beautiful white sand and sparkling turquoise water, a photographer’s dream. Llandudno is a little upscale suburb perched on a west-facing cliff above a beautiful cove (apparently named…  I just love photographing running dogs, and there’s no better place than at the beach and no breed more exciting than Salukis. Just over the hill from where I stayed while I was living in South Africa is the lovely fishing village of Hout Bay. The beach there is deep and level, and it’s a…  Santa Barbara is an exceptionally dog friendly town and they have an exceptionally serious dog beach. Just below the Douglas Family Estate is Arroyo Burro County Beach (also called Hendry’s Beach by the locals), a favorite of surfers, sunset-watchers, and dogs. From the parking lot, you walk to the beach and turn right up the…  Sometimes the best photo isn’t the one you were looking for. While I was living in South Africa, I went out early one morning to shoot some photos of a friend’s new springer puppy and my own (South African-bred) Springer, Sally, came along. The puppy was only about 3 months old, and the weeds… |
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