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Fun or Fight? Quiz 3

  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.

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Fun or Fight? Quiz 1 Redeaux

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…

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Fun or Fight? Quiz 2

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

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Fun or Fight? Quiz 1

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…

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Fun or Fight? INTRODUCTION

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…

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2012 Dog Photography Calendar

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…

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New Friends

Sally, my English Springer Spaniel (12.5 yrs), with a new friend (3 yrs?) she met at the local dog park.

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EXCITING NEWS…A BOOK!

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…

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HOW DOGS PLAY: Loose skin

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

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HOW DOGS PLAY: Teamwork

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

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HOW DOGS PLAY: Frisbee dogs

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

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HOW DOGS PLAY: What ears are for

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

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SHOOT THE DOG™: Visualizing speed

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…

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SHOOT THE DOG™: Speed control

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…

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