Tail Pix|A Photo Blog

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This is my black border collie, Chase. He was swimming in a pond up in Park City last weekend. I like this picture… I would change the pose just a little bit, but I love his fur all wet, and how the background is washed out.

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I love good action Teeter shots. They are actually hard to capture. Most dogs do slow teeters, are just walking, and are kinda boring. Nothing boring about Ryker though!

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Well, the tunnel isn’t Golden, but the retriever is! A picture from one of my latest agility trials. I still think the dog is not as crisp as he could be. I believe it was a USDAA trial. I love the summer, but it’s been a bit hot for the dogs.

I like the depth of field on this shot… still inside, and I’m trying to get a good balance of light. The shutter speed was 1/160 and the f-stop was 4.1. ISO is 1600 to gather the light. Again, a bit grainy, but I think the pose is cute.

Here is a border collie doing a nice box turn on the flyball box. As you can see, though, my shutter speed was not fast enough to stop the dog. The shutter speed 1/200 with an f-stop of 3.7. The ISO is 1600 again, in order to gather enough light.

I took some pictures last weekend at the flyball tournament in St. George, Utah. I was experimenting with different settings. It was indoors, and so I found that I had to have the aperature open quite wide and a fast shutter speed to stop the action. However, my lens isn’t quite good enough, and so I had to turn the ISO way up, to 1600. So with an f-stop of 4.5, shutter speed of 1/400, and an ISO of 1600, this is what I have. This is a smaller version, though. But if you blow it up you might see the graininess of the picture.

Nope this is not Kiwi the fruit! It’s Kiwi the Australian Shepherd! He’s a good friend of mine, what a silly boy he is! I love his two different colored eyes.

This is Jezi. She was a foster of ours back in August, September of 2007. Our good friends adopted her, and now she has an excellent home! I love how one ear is up, one is down.

Rydick is the companion dog to a friend of mine. He’s a border collie that has had some growing pains, both behavioral and physical. But he is a good boy and he has a great person to teach him the ropes. He’s probably about 18 months old. I loved this expression.

Flyball practice today… Apache fumbled the ball. I think it’s a cute picture. 1/1000 sec f 5.0 set on auto for sports action.