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Just chasing time, but I guess sometimes we all need to practice some patience......
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
Toby is tolerable with hats, but Riley is a mixed bag. Yesterday (when I was just practicing and not shooting at all) he was excellent.
Today - in front of my iPhone on its tripod (so - minimal setup - see stream for cute little iPhone tripod I use) and he was... unimpressed.
However, since I was using the kitchen lights and NOT the flash - I could take as many pictures (via remote) as I wanted.
Ha!
This was the best in the box (with only TWO that had both dogs with hats and me not in the picture).
(and yes, my dogs, my floors, and my cabinets are all the same color. This is actually where I shoot all my "studio" photographs - hence the usage of backdrops)
Our Daily Challenge - June 8, 2022 - "LIFE IS LIKE BOX OF CHOCOLATES"
122 Pictures in 2022 - #53. "I wish..."
... pictures with hats were as easy as this photo makes it look!
Daily Dog Challenge - 3814. 6/1 "Heads or Tails"
Hard to put a hat on tail :D
365:2022 - #160
Group practicing a Dragon Dance ahead of the Chinese New Year. Bacolod City, Philippines.
Gong Xi Fa Cai
This is Joshua practicing his glass blowing at a shop in Cabo San Lucas. We visited as part of an organized city tour and some people got to try out blowing a bubble of molten glass. The bubble at the end of the metal rod quickly cooled and then was broken, producing very thin glass shards that were discarded.
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I have 3 options for people who would like to practice on hair or on pictures. Feel free to use these to practice your beautiful skills ♥ Thanks in advance
These shots are for practicing photographing water as long exposure or by averaging several shots.
This is a learning experience for me.
Thank you for your faves and kind comments, very much appreciated - deaR♥‿♥
Just because the rodent season is over, it is never sufficient to rest on one's laurels. A successful season past is no guarantee for the future. Every season presents an opportunity to work on skills. For example, a snow encrusted twig makes a more than suitable substitution for a prideful presentation to one's partner. While a bit less tricky to catch, other hazards clearly exist complicating the activity.
Practice with the new camera...inside shot of silk flowers. Wish these were real! LOL!
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Drummers practice on the battlements of Edinburgh Castle before a performance of The 2015 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
If you practice hard enough .. could you achieve anything?
Deep in the basement in this old civic building are the cells, they have an almost 'facility' feeling about them. Wonderful leisurely day with Brother Barnabus and the meeting of 'Pam' . Un Invited
This one is actually from a couple of months back. Recently I've been making an effort to train myself in the art of rope bondage. And with the help of a lot of examples on Flickr, and my friend Linda Lovelace in particular, I've had some degree of success. As Daisy can attest, we've had literally dozens of practice sessions, where I try various techniques and see how secure it is by having Daisy do her best to get loose. The goal being to get to a point where both she and I know she is totally secure, and unable to get free without my help. We don't want our little lady to feel insecure, now do we?? 😜
Anyway, since it was a learning experience and not to the level I would prefer, I haven't posted any of the photos. But I suppose this session wasn't too bad.....so I will post of few shots here and there this week.
If you are curious as to the point of this position, we were playing a old college drinking game called "Hi Bob!". You know that game where you watch old Bob Newhart Show reruns and do a shot every time someone says "Hi Bob!"?? (Yeah, I'm probably showing my age here...) Well I thought of a neat variation on the theme. We watched several episodes, and every time someone said the magic word, Daisy got a shot....with my paddle. And who could blame me....isn't that just a deliciously inviting target??? 😍
..but it also fills the memory cards and hard drives pretty fast ツ
Thanks to skilled Even in the Moskusguiden company, I managed to take my first usable panned photos on the workshop in Greece this week, like of this adult Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus).
But all the practice and series of slow shutter photos following pelicans in action, almost filled all the 10 memory cards I brought with me (and had thought was way too many) ツ I ended up with nearly 13.000 photos, but still I was among those who took the fewest (!) I hope sorting out and deleting the thousands of bad ones will go fast ツ
I also took many nice portraits of the birds that I look forward to show later on.
(Voksen krøllpelikan, in Norwegian)
My album of photos from Greece here.
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A little practice goes a long way. While I haven't been doing much practice in the saddle this past week because of spraining my shoulder, I've still managed to get some training done with the baby boy. He's been worked in a Pessoa to encourage him to work deep, because as a big, long, horse who has been used to thundering around on his forehand, he needed to work more on rocking onto his hindquarters and engaging properly underneath. I've also been free-jumping him over cavaletti, particularly focusing on bounce jumps for him, because nothing teaches a horse to get back onto his hindquarters and stay there like having to jump a grid.
It seems to have paid dividends, with our practice session at Evergarden over the jump course coming in at what I think is a very respectable 62.09. I've no idea how it compares to everyone else, but I think it's around the fastest Foxtrot and I are capable of completing the course - in this case, I think his being as tall as he is works against him, as the distances in some of the double elements are a bit more than a bounce, and a bit less than a stride. With a smaller horse, you might get a stride in, which can help your horse center himself, but I think for Foxtrot, I'd have to ask for a longer, shallower, jump on the first element to land him in bounce distance for the second elements.
Either way, I'm super proud of the progress Foxtrot has made in such a short period of time, and I'm excited to see how he improves with more time to train him.
This is my youngest. He knocked out some 80's rock for me while posing and letting me practice with my lighting. Oddly enough, he wasn't posing here, he was just looking at something behind him. I ended up liking it the best even though he's not playing his guitar here. I liked it so much when I took it I had him do several poses similar to this one.
Strobist:
Canon 6D, 24-70mm lens, Canon 580ex II camera left behind subject with a blue gel, at 1/8th, Canon 430ex in 24" softbox camera right, 1/2 power. ISO 200, shutter 1/500, f/3.5
Ever since I became a Flickr member I've enjoyed the gorgeous Bald Eagle pictures of, for instance Imtoootall, Doug LLoyd, Nikographer, Fella-1 and Garnite (to name a few...).
I long to go to the places they live/visit, see the eagles with my own eyes, but it seems that my wishlist of 'must see before I die'-places only grows longer since I'm on Flickr and the time left only becomes shorter.. :-)
But.... there are vague plans to go to Vancouver Island in autumn. I've heard from a friend that there seem to be a lot of these flying beauties around there.....
Meanwhile, last sunday I went with friends and their kids to Beekse Bergen in Holland. Apart from it being a lovely day which really lifted the spirits of us sunstarved people in the Netherlands (:-), they had a wonderful show with birds of prey.
So here was my chance to practice a little! You might call it a small miracle that I haven't hit anyone on the head with the camera and lens but I was só eager to get at least one shot right!
Ok, it might not (yet) be the real stuff, and it doesn't come near the quality of the above mentioned gentlemen's shots, but still I've enjoyed seeing this wonderful eagle fly enormously. (and at least it felt real !!! :-) )