Someone’s been rolling in the ryegrass…
(Edit: pronoun repair. ‘She’ turns out to be ‘Harvey’.)
Goldens can look so sad, even when they're having a blast. And they can also look totally goofy.
Heh. Someone's giving me a look.
Spent ages on the color balance of these. Still don't think I got it quite right.
I wonder if he found something stinky to roll in?
Maybe he was just all itchy.
Another dog from that same dog park. These pictures are a giant pain in the tukhus, as my grandma used to say. They were shot with a Canon SLR in Canon’s ‘raw’ mode, which means that I have to spend a surprising amount of time screwing around with them. If you shoot in jpeg mode, the camera does all the correction for you… it doesn’t always get it right, but there’s not much you can do about it if it doesn’t. Whereas if I do a bunch of work on the raw images, I can almost always make them come out at least acceptably, but it’s always a lot of work.
So here’s one of a handsome, graceful golden retriever, dancing for you. Tomorrow I’ll have a few more of this pup in other poses.
A very light-colored golden retriever, with a very graceful step.
We caught Jake in a goofy-happy mood. I am told that he occasionally decides to look noble and long-suffering, but it usually doesn’t last long.
Jake may be a lover and not a fighter, but he's definitely got some chops in the area of athletics too, as you can see from yesterday's pics.
Jake has a few good tricks, too. He's mastered 'wave', for example.
He has also apparently mastered 'eat delicious treat'.
Another friend for the Great Dane, whose name (I totally forgot to even look for it!) is Soolie, aka Sulimon. The playmate is a white German shepherd/greyhound mix named Jake.
Tomorrow, Jake gets his own day.
This pair was having a blast together. They took turns chasing one another.
What I love about Great Danes: I could take pictures of one all day and not get two of the same expression.
I can't blame him for running, those do look like rather sharp teeth.
One more picture of him. Because it's awesome.
How in the world did I not know about this?
Here’s a sleeping puppy in celebration.
Dream of national puppy day treats, little guy.
Aww. Our friend the Great Dane just wants to play, but I think this guy is totally ambivalent. He never even looks up when the Dane is galloping towards him.
I really thought the Great Dane was just going to run this guy right over.
I'm not a dog, and I'd be a little freaked out by having that thing gallumphing towards me.
He really doesn't look like he's used to being ignored, does he?
The American bulldog just didn't want to play. Looks like someone else does, however.
Our friend the Great Dane from yesterday has found a couple of friends. He could handle either one individually, but when they gang up on him, he doesn’t have a prayer.
And from this we learn that standard poodles really are surprisingly large.
After a couple minutes of this they had him running around in circles.
This coming week is going to be pictures from a dog park that I took last month, and only now managed to clean off my hard drive enough to get them downloaded from the camera. Raw images are big!
Quite a lot of the pictures will include this fine fellow, so I thought I ought to, ah, let you see what was coming. As it were.
A fiery dog with the speed of light...
...a cloud of dust...
...and a hearty "WATCH OUT!"
The Lone Goofball rides again!
Some dog park shots of a goofy dawg, to brighten your day. Autumn and I are both sick, so we need a little brightening.
German shepherds can look like such noble dogs, but they also can look goofier than pretty much anything else.
This gal was of the super-goofy-all-the-time variety.
Lighting problems. Sometimes they're unavoidable, when the dog owner picks the spot she wants the pictures taken.
This pup was really ball-obsessed.
Goofy dog. Don't you know dogs aren't supposed to climb trees?
She likes to take a water dish and drag it around in big circles on the ground. Why? Who knows.
Charli was a real snorg-hund… she has the ‘I just want your loooove!’ look down pat.
Patient, well-behaved, and yet very demanding.
Can't remember what he was staring at, but he was definitely happier here.
This is an experiment... the full-sized picture is too fuzzy to use, so I shrank it. It's definitely *better* small, anyway... just not sure whether it's 'good'.