anniek

ok I'm in - 52 weeks of Cowboy Week 1 - basking in 30 something degrees before running back inside to the evap cooling.

Texas is one of my favourite DOL dogs - mainly due to your great photography. I wish him well and hope you have many more photo opportunities with him. You will look back one day at your wonderful memories on paper (er computer). Annie

flying Greyhound tooshies

I have decided to do 52 weeks of Greyhounds Week 1 / 52 This is Pepper - pic is from a shoot I did yesterday for a new adopter. She was looking into the chook shed - wondering where her dinner had gone Only joking - Pepper is cat, horse and free range chook safe!

Beach at 5:30 - 6:00am. Always a little cooler and they can have a paddle if they want to.

Well I've set myself a little task of concentrating on "exposure" next year - by that I mean taking individual pics of my two - one is black and the other mostly white, so I intend to do a lot of manual tweaking - unders and overs, backlit blown out skies, silhuettes etc and some bracketing . So I guess this a good place to post the best photo each week. The greys don't actually do much - a five minute run and a 23+ hour sleep each day, but I can "do my stuff" with them while they are snoozing can't I?

I'm in with Cowboy, but only on Dol - as I don't like flikr.

thank you all for sharing your pups for 52 weeks - have really enjoyed coming in here and perving I'm in with Cowboy next year

I am not against dry, but I find feeding raw is cheap and easy. There are a lot of poultry places not far from here when I can get chicken offcuts very cheap. As Cowboy ages he goes off the kibble now and again - but is always up for a kg of chicken necks And he needs fairly fatty meat to keep his weight up, whereas Phoebe would eat toasted cardboard (without the butter) and she would look like a porky pig. So I would have to keep two kinds of dry on hand if feeding more than what I do. With raw it is easy - he gets more anyway, but for him I leave all the fat on the chicken frames, for her she has it trimmed a bit.

eta I tried Proplan sensitve and their coats went bad. Tried Nutro - Cowboy had soft poos. So even though the dry is a small % , I have to say it must be the dry

I feed 80% raw - the rest dry - currently EP holistic. The raw is all/any manner of animal parts, and is rotated. So if I change the dry to XXX and their coat/poos whatever changes, then because the raw is pretty much set in stone, I have to "blame" the dry.

mmmm - just had a bit of a google about it, although I still remember the wild goose chase I went on for the "blue" moon not that long ago

My "bits" are all insured - serial numbers quoted, and all for specific amounts - on the household policy.

If you have a look in the manual it has a table somewhere showing card size / number of pics/video length etc depending on shooting mode. oh and congrats

She's getting more like a real greyhound every day

priceless :D

I love the 30mm - it is very sharp, and even at 1.4 I can easily get the distance right for the pointy noses. That length for me, is perfect to get above a standing greyhound and actually get it in the frame without a ladder. The 50mm is a no go for that as the dogs are too tall. I use photobucket, so all of the pics I post on here look crappy, so no good putting anything up for you to look at.

I have the 30mm Huga - I think any wider and you may have too much distortion. I also have the Sigma 17-70, and below 35mm is a bit, well "wide"

Haven't you heard of hybrid vigour - the dogs live so much longer

Well there's definately something wrong with the old girl. Greytpets brought her over for a visit today and she doesn't like cheese But apart from that, she's as happy and lively as any 7 or 8 year old

..... and there will be Greyhounds to cuddle ........................

to be honest it was the NOT white lens that pushed me to the Sigma, as after seeing Luke W with his big white bazooka I just couldn't bear the thought of me prancing around with "one of those"..

Am I missing something here look here

I see that mine (non OS) is down to around $ 780 - I think I paid just under a grand for it.