.... about to swallow "morning tea"

Aussie

Met on a walk

We got home to Arizona last night and were reunited with Jasper. Ahh, complete again. We opened some presents this morning and I pieced together a quick video of Jasper enjoying his new toys. Please excuse the increasing mess as the video progresses. Humans opened some gifts as well so boxes and paper everywhere

This is my "nephew" Calvados, or Cal for short. And he's actually Jasper's blood nephew. He lives with my sister-in-law's family In Wisconsin. A great happy-go-lucky dog with typical Aussie energy. Blind shooting again

That's Anna on the right. She got chased up the post by our Border Collie dog Cindy, who has a particular hatred for Goannas and snakes. The other two beauties are Claire on the left, our son Jono's fiance and our youngest daughter Naomi.

Jasper doesn't think much of the Superbowl because he knows real dogs play OddBall, not football. A slow-motion video of Jasper catching the ball in the OddBall X Challenge

Cottesloe Beach, February 2016

Jasper waits with Monkey Business for the humans to respond. Sometimes it takes them a while. Like some kind of server glitch or something.

A blind shot from this weekend as Jasper strolled through the greenspace, lovingly looking up at my wife, Jean. But I bet there'll be no afternoon walk today. It's supposed to get up to 98F (~36.6C) this afternoon. That is unseasonably warm, BTW, even for Arizona.

While not exactly an untried theme for me, the sun has been setting as we take our "evening" walk these days. Beautiful sun. Beautiful dog. Can't help whipping out the camera.

Eyes on the prize, Jasper wills his female human to toss the sheep already! (Yes, Christmas tree comes down this weekend ;-)

This is Calvados, or Cal for short. He is Jasper's blood nephew who lives in Wisconsin with my wife's sister and family. He's a big sweetie. He's got very interesting heterochromatic (multi-colored) eyes.

This goofball, Tug, actually looks a little noble here. A windy day at the beach provided a nice background for some photos of Tug and Della.

This is an outtake from the "my dog and me" 52 weeks for dogs challenge last weekend. I had set up the tripod with camera on the other end of the lawn and I clicked of a ton of shots using a wireless remote as Jasper charged down the yard towards the camera chasing whatever. I wasn't going to post any more of them, but my wife said I should and I always do what my wife tells me 😜. Jasper is pretty darn good at catching that OddBall, snagging it out of the air despite it's size and odd shape.

Oh no! The sky is falling! Oh wait a second, that's just the OddBall. Not to worry, Jasper leaped up and got it.

This shot was from a little while ago. But even last night when the temperature was still 105ºF (~41ºC), Jasper wanted to go outside and catch some OddBalls. Thank goodness that didn't last long

This was Jasper's birthday haul. Beatrice Bunny, squeaky Chuckit, a new OddBall and a pair of large hedgehogs. As you can see he was absolutely thrilled to stop playing to pose for a stinking picture 😜

Your standard three-step process for capturing a Chuckit that takes a wonky bounce. Some quick fun in the green space this morning before it gets too hot. I checked the temp yesterday when we took our 5:30PM walk. It was 111°F (~44°C), but just 9% humidity, so a dry heat. We made it a short walk.

Aussie Nightsky

Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia

Many older Australians will be familiar with this car. It was a very popular model made between 1958 and the year of my birth, 1960. This is the General Motors Holden FC. Price brand new back then was around 1,100 pounds depending on the model variant. Powered by a good old straight six of about 2.2 litres capacity.

This is a 1/18th scale model made by a company called Classic Carlectibles who specialise in Australian models, and is one of just 800 or so that have been released of this particular model. They make many older model Holdens and Fords, and as model cars go, they are very high quality with all doors opening and working steering and suspension. I love this one for the wonderful detail, right down to the hubcaps in glorious chrome, and even the tyre valves.

This is the "showroom" shot taken inside under LED lighting and is a ten image focus stack taken on the Canon RP using the 35mm macro lens. Processed in Canon DPP4.

Though it started out relatively cool on our visit to Boyce Thompson Arboretum on Sunday, Jasper took some pleasure in just remaining in the shadows and people watching with Jean as I flitted about photographing birds and lizards and whatnot.

digital oil art ..

Ocean Grove, Victoria.

Australian Shepherd puppy

Fremantle, Australia

CATEGORY:

Panorama / blended

GEAR:

Sony A7iii

EXIF:

Sky: 2 rows, 8 panels, ISO 1600, f3.5, 20s,

Foreground: 1 row, 8 panels, ISO 1600, f3.5, 120s

Almost open, ready to face the world.

A fast growing and bushy plant to 2 metres tall, useful for informal hedging and screening, as well as for container growing. It has large mid pink lightly perfumed flowers throughout spring and summer. The flower petals are edible. Foliage is lightly furry. Waterwise and a low maintenance plant. Frost tolerant and can be used for coastal sites.

Photo made during the Artistic Dog Photography Workshop with amazing Alicja Zmyslowska in Belgium 2021.

Jasper spies something suspicious. Keep us safe, boy!

Just posing on a bench at the Riparian Preserve. Missing our boy as we do the family visit thing in WI over Christmas.

As a Kangaroo bounds away, veteren loco GM43 stands at the head of a GWA rail train in the loop at Nantawarra while waiting for a cross before pushing back a couple of KMs to start unloading rail on 27-3-2017.

GM43 and GM37 have continued on as regular runners on rail trains for ARTC while the remaining units have now been in storage for almost 2 years now

Lake Douglas, Kalgoorlie WA

We were reunited with Jasper last night after our week-long Christmas holiday trip to the frigid north visiting family. Jasper was much more in the mood to play than to stop and take photos. But a quick pause at sunset seemed a reasonable thing to ask.

Scenery taken from the Puffing Billy train ride through the Dandenongs, near Melbourne.

Jasper off sniffing his way through the shrubberies as dogs will do

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Some Eastern Rosellas and Australian King-Parrots down at the local creek :-)

When you sleep with your head on the Oddball, a little bit of it seeps into the brain, directing your dreams to fun times.

We got our second covid vaccine shots yesterday. I'm very happy about that. Maybe soon we can socialize. Travel. Go to the gym. Won't that be grand? Though I think Jasper has grown rather used to having me home all day. On the handful of days I've gone into the office, my wife reported that Jasper has been a bit confused, wondering just where the heck I was.

With the sun being cleared from all the cloudcover, CEY004, FIE001 and FIE002 roll down through Euchareena in the sunlight with SSR's 8148 Fletchers Export service from Dubbo to Port Botany.

G514 was added at the back as usual for banking duties.

A bit of Aussie Car Racing from Queensland Raceway.

Luke AFB, Az.