It's Dandelion Day! There are enough dandelions blooming that I can pick a few without worrying about the wildlife being deprived of a possible source of nutrition.
I forgot to actually *tell* the Spaniels "hat" when I barretted the dandelions on, so both of them immediately began rolling on the bug or whatever was stuck to their heads 🤣 Squished dandelions were retrieved, and I tried it again, this time telling the Spaniels what I wanted. Success!
do you have advice for taking good pictures of dogs? your pictures are so nice, and while i love my dog she never stops moving ever and especially not when i have my camera out so every picture of her looks blurry and weird, how do you get your dogs to pose so well?
I thank you for the kind words, but seriously I have no photography skills. I wave a smartphone camera around clicking somewhat randomly, and occasionally get a decent pic, which I then edit badly because I don't know much editing either 😅
My dogs do know a stay, and we practice it regularly; they do several tricks for a carrot when they come inside, or when I am in the kitchen, so we practice tricks every day for fun.
They also know "hat" and "pose for pictures," which is "stay as still as possible while I wave around the flat rectangle," for which they are very well paid 😁 because "still" is very difficult for a short-attention-spaniel.
For posed pictures I use my phone's "portrait mode," which can actually get Tristan's eyes, but they have to be very still for that.
Most of the pics I take are in motion, though, and the great majority are blurry. I just also get a few (kind of) in focus. And then I hope my subjects are cute enough to make up for the poor quality. I mean, they're really cute.
On my way to pick up a package, Wick insisted on saying hello to my neighbor, who was saying how sweet Wick was and how he kinda wanted a dog but wasn’t sure if he could handle it. I made a comment that Wick was a lot of work, but I did not mention that the package in my hand was sweet sweet payback for all the dumbassery this fool puts me through 😈
Practicing "hat"! This hat is a smidge too big ("newborn" usually fits cockers so this is probably actually toddler sized). They're balancing the hat for practice, there's no chin strap. They can drop it if they want to.
The difference between a couple of years of experience, and trying really hard.
*tips pride fedora* m'dude
