Photo of the week April 6-12

I'll start it off. I got a new flash last week but could only get one willing subject to test it with. My 10 Month old Aussie name Hopi. She posed for about 6 shots then had enough and moved on.

Ohmy Except for a beautiful photo, she is just A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E {Love-0002011D}

You have a winner in both the photo and the Hopi !

James,

here's my two cents

Here's a shot from a t-ball shoot earlier today. Of course, that's my kid holding up the ball with pride.

I spent today at a nearby Apaloosa horse ranch (a different ranch from where I photographed that white horse on the stormy ridge). They have a lot of baby animals this time of year. I think the rancher said this baby was about four weeks old.

I got this shot about 0800-0830 this morning.

Looking at these photos do you all feel the spring in the air? Wow, so cheerful.... I brightens my day (which is horribly hot in 33 degr.C)

I can sympathize, Chica. The day I photographed that woman and the baby horse, it hit 32 C.

Do you recall how green those horse shots I posted about a month ago? That wasn't just post-production saturation tweak. That's how green it was around here in the winter. Already the hills and pastures are starting to go brown.

My submission for the photo of the week.

JZweco.

JZweco e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t shot. How did you get him to pose for you?

OrcaBob it went on to 38C y'day but you mention something 'funny', I also noted that there are loads of (brown) leafs on the ground while I always thought the falling of leafs happens in autumn

chica wrote:

JZweco e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t shot. How did you get him to pose for you? :laugh:

I cheated and snuck up on him through a window in my house....<grin>

Lovely creature but he/she spooks real easy. I hope to get some shots of him / her actually "pecking" on the tree.

JZweco.

Great Shot JZweco, sometimes we have to cheat a little to keep the shot....

God Bless,
James,

JZ,

A shot is a shot is a shot. IMO, it's no more cheating to sneak up on the bird in the window than it is to hide behind a blind -- which many wildlife photographers do. It's not as if you photographed an animal in a zoo and then claimed it was out in the wild. You got a fine shot and made no false claims about the circumstances. End of story. And well done!

Bob