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Daisy, my Bassador, HATES having her photo taken, so I don't have many good photos of her. But she LOVES to play fetch, and I wanted to practice my back-button focusing = success!
Wanna play fetch anyone? Such a cute little 8-month old. She just kept playing with the log she's resting on.
Comments and Critique welcome.
Week #44: This picture of Max was taken, specifically for the 52 weeks for Dogs Group. The weather was crisp today. The perfect fall day. We went out in the backyard and played around. Brock loves sticks, so does Max, but he's afraid to try and take anything away from Brock, so he's watching, hoping Brock will miss so he can come in for cleanup.
Technically : Using Shutter Mode this week. I wanted to do something different and out of my comfort zone. So, I also pulled out my most challenging lens, the Wide Angle. My goal was to shoot without a flash, too. I picked shutter mode to help stop the action, but with moving subjects it is difficult to keep a sharp focus. The only adjustments to this photo was a crop, a slight levels adjustment (for midtone contrast) and lastly, a very slight Orton Effect (to help hide the lack of sharp focus on the eyes.)
Assessment: Not happy at all with the lighting. Its very uneven, but I didn't want to use a flash. Instead I bumped up the iso 500.
A black lab plays in the cold Lake Superior water near Grand Marais, MN.
This photo was selected for display at the Pentax Photo Gallery:
More shots from playing fetch in the park yesterday. He's still a little clumsy when catching the ball but he's getting the hang of it.
After her nap, Ava seemed to get more comfortable with Bruce. They even played fetch: he rolled the ball to her and she brought it back to him.
Cosby returns from fetching his frisbee looking very pleased with himself, much to Molly's annoyance.
Our dog does not fetch. Fetch Lesson: still unsuccessful, but a valiant effort. ;)
1 - Cut slit in ball and insert treat so it smells like something dog wants to pick up.
2 - Show it to dog, let him smell it's yumminess and repeat the word "ball" alot.
3 - Throw ball and watch as dog continues to sit at your feet waiting for a treat without having to move.
4 - Laugh as dog walks past ball, while trying hard not to even look at it.
5 - Dog: "...WHY is this game fun?"
As these imploring eyes so frequently remind me. However, Dinky is not above trying to play fetch by himself when he needs his fix. But it's better with a friend.
For the weekly theme "Being There" at www.mu-43.com.
This was shot indoors with not-so-great lighting, as you can tell from all the pixel noise.
Colleen Browning (American 1918 - 2003)
Harlem Street - 1953
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Browning
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"The years since Ms. Browning’s death in 2003, at 85, have led to a reconsideration of her impact throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Her work, with an endowment to support its exhibition, was bequeathed by her husband’s estate to the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, which organized this traveling retrospective in conjunction with Philip Eliasoph, a professor of art history at Fairfield University and the author of “Colleen Browning: The Enchantment of Realism.” In “The Early Works,” museumgoers will find evidence of Ms. Browning’s natural talents and developing skills. There are the delicate books she made as a preteen, filled with intricate watercolors of fairies and flowers, and the perspective studies and figure drawings she did as an art student at London’s Slade School of Fine Art, which she attended on full scholarship from 1937 to 1939.
After drawing maps for the Royal Air Force during World War II, Ms. Browning became a set decorator at the J. Arthur Rank Film Corporation. “The Early Works” includes gouaches of behind-the-scenes sets teeming with workers. In 1949, Ms. Browning’s first one-person show featured a collection of those cinema-inspired pieces.
That show was held in London in May. The following month, Ms. Browning departed for New York to marry Geoffrey Wagner, a British writer whom she had met the previous summer. “Head,” in “The Early Works,” is a portrait of Mr. Wagner, a handsome man looking intently at the viewer. The couple became American citizens, remained childless and, aside from their travels, spent the rest of their lives in New York.
“The Early Works” contains paintings from Ms. Browning’s first decade in Manhattan, when she and Mr. Wagner lived on 116th Street and Second Avenue. It was there that she painted “Holiday,” looking down from her fourth-floor window, and “East Harlem Street Scene,” depicting the bustle of her neighborhood. In “Fire Escape II,” she arranged four children on the vertical structure of a fire escape. “Think of her prescience,” Mr. Eliasoph said. “She comes to the States and quickly recognizes the beauty of the iron grid of New York’s tenement landscape.”
Mr. Eliasoph identified this period as the zenith of Ms. Browning’s career. Despite the rising popularity of Abstract Expressionism, she was showing at the city’s pre-eminent galleries and her work was accepted into several annual exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She was awarded prizes and praised in Time, Newsweek and The New York Times; in 1966 she was elected academician of the National Academy."
www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/nyregion/high-points-and-other...
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"Mint Museum Uptown houses the internationally renowned Craft + Design collection, as well as outstanding collections of American and contemporary art.
Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston, the five-story, 145,000-square-foot facility combines inspiring architecture with cutting-edge exhibitions to provide visitors with unparalleled educational and cultural experiences.
Located in the heart of Charlotte’s burgeoning city center, Mint Museum Uptown is an integral part of the Levine Center for the Arts, a cultural campus that includes the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, the Knight Theater, and the Duke Energy Center. Mint Museum Uptown also features a wide range of visitor amenities, including the 240-seat James B. Duke Auditorium, the Lewis Family Gallery, art studios, a restaurant, and a museum store.
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The Mint Museum is the largest visual arts institution in Charlotte and holds the largest public collection of Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden's work.
The American Art collection comprises approximately 900 works created between the late 1700s and circa 1945. It includes portraiture of the Federal era, 19th century landscapes, and paintings from the group known as "The Eight" (Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, and Arthur Bowen Davies). Additional highlights in this area include works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford.
The Art of the Ancient Americas collection includes roughly 2,000 objects from more than 40 cultures, spanning more than 4,500 years. The collection includes body adornments, tools, ceramic vessels, sculpture, textiles, and metal ornaments.
There are about 2,230 objects in the Mint's collection of Contemporary Art. These include the Bearden collection and other works on paper, contemporary sculpture, and photography from circa 1945 to the present.
The Mint's Decorative Arts collection, considered one of the finest in the country, centers on its holdings in ceramics. Containing more than 12,000 objects from 2000 B.C. to 1950 A.D., the collection includes a wide variety of ancient Chinese ceramics, 18th century European and English wares, American art pottery, and North Carolina pottery. The Mint has the largest and most comprehensive collection of North Carolina pottery in the nation. Its collection of North Carolina pottery comprises some 2,200 objects, dating from the 1700s.
The museum's Delhom collection, given to the Mint in 1966, contains 2,000 pieces of historic pottery and porcelain, as well as pre-Columbian pieces that are more than 4,500 years old.
Almost 10,000 items of men's, women's, and children's fashions from the early 18th century to present-day haute couture are included in the museum's collection of Historic Costume and Fashionable Dress, which approaches fashion as an art form.
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Lucky loves to play fetch. He's a bit obsessed, actually. His number one favorite thing to fetch is anything ring shaped - bracelets, hairbands, washers. He is crazy about rubber bands and will come running if he hears the drawer with rubber bands in it open. Bear will very occasionally play fetch too, but he has to be in the mood for it I guess. He's usually pretty interested when Lucky plays but sometimes gets a bit jealous of all the attention his brother's getting and tackles him mid play.
The sport scene mode was used for this shot. Shooting with hand held Zuiko 70-300, I prefer to use the sport scene or shutter priority (1/500 or faster, ISO auto), because program and aperture priority modes often use too slow shutter speeds for the focal distance. Auto gradation set on (at post processing) to get more out of the shadows, as the direct sunlight gives too much contrast.
Hope went farther into the water at Thornton State Beach than she ever has before - probably helped that two other dogs were having so much fun. The beach was great and the waves didn't seem to bother the dogs at all. Plenty of driftwood to throw!
At dawn there was a pirate no show, so Tiny decided to take Messy for a walk.
T: Go fetch, Messy.
M: No you go fetch.
T: No, your the dog - your supposed to go fetch.
M: Why should I pick up after you. Your the one that threw it away - you go fetch.
Tiny can't even get messy to play ball.
"why do you need me to go fetch quotes from different articles when you can do a simple Google search and find examples for yourself?" (xrandadu hutman writing a complaint letter to an editor)