Zenith

Yep great shots

Woah kja, thats great

They are all great, Flick Mac, but if I had to choose it would be out of the second and last ones :D

lol thats great Kirislin - they are literally having a ball by the looks of it

**Changed** to 52 weeks of Poppie, as I've now joined the official group on Flickr, might have to do Cash next year

Poppie and her new brother

1/52 - 4th January, 2011 by swdimages, on Flickr

ETA linky:

52 weeks of Poppie

Thanks

Similar thing today, I was setting up for a shot with Poppie (who hates having portraits done) and Pixie and Madison photobombed the shot as I was getting the lighting right.

4/365 - 4th January, 2011 by swdimages, on Flickr

Madison and Pixie photobombed my setup for a photo with Poppie

4/365 - 4th January, 2011 by swdimages, on Flickr

Great shots - love the dragonfly redangel

Beautiful stone tawnydal

Lovely photos everyone, let me know if I haven't added you to the first post.

Zenith, your Day 3 shot is gorgeous! I love the DOF of it. What lens and f/stop did you use?

Thanks

I used my Canon EFS 10-22mm @ 10mm and 3.5f, and I also used a flash remotely triggered to the right through an umbrella @ 1/32. Going to try and experiment with this lens a bit more as I've really only used it for Real Estate work.

Awwww...adorable

Gorgeous re lenses its like the never ending *want* list for me!

Ok mine will be the same as my January Challenge ones for this month, hope I can keep up for the year!

Day 1 -

Day 1 - January 1st, 2011 by swdimages, on Flickr

Day 2 -

Day 2 - January 2nd, 2011 by swdimages, on Flickr

Day 3 -

Day 3 - 3rd January 2010 by swdimages, on Flickr

Day 2 - 1 of hubby's cousins twins and his gorgeous feet

Day 2 - January 2nd, 2011 by swdimages, on Flickr

Day 3 - Madison in the half painted office

Day 3 - 3rd January 2010 by swdimages, on Flickr

Great pictures everyone.

Pers we have had lots of those wasps around lately - I watched 1 catch a locust and drag it away.

My effort for today. Not great as I just used my iphone. I was reluctant to take the slr out there and it was tricky enough holding phone and hose and getting a picture while also watching out or Piper who likes to bite the nozzle. This is how Jazz likes to play on warm days.

summer fun1

She and Piper both know while is is on mist and I am watering not to touch but as soon a I turn it to Jet, watch out!

Lol my BC is obsessed with water too

Great photos :D

So cute

Omg how gorgeous

Wow looking forward to the whole month, if todays photos are anything to go by, its going to be tops

Aliya and her filly Ellie this morning!

January 1st, 2011 by swdimages, on Flickr

Just updating from LR2 to LR3 then will upload something from this mornings shoot!

Ah just saw this fellow on Flickr, he's just lovely!!

Gorgeous

I think I will do this challenge as well, we are getting a new dog mid Jan so I will photograph him each week once he arrives

ETA flickr link:

Flickr 52 weeks

My poor Belgian was a quivering heap. We didn't have pretty fireworks courtesy of the clowns down the hill, we had canons. The little guy thought he was tough and barked at them. Old Columbus slept through it all since he is deaf as a post.

My biggest concern were the horses who were thundering around the paddock.

What rocket surgeon lets off fireworks in the middle of the bush?

Its so frustrating isn't it? Last night the people letting off fireworks also let them off on Christmas night, and we weren't really prepared for them. Last night they were also letting off bungers etc. Just silly there are so much valuable stock and horses on our place and the surrounding farms. We think we know the smaller block it was coming from, but proving it is a different story. Our horses startle to begin with then settle, as they are used to all the neighbours shooting.

My BC didn't react, which is great as we have been desensitising him to storms/thunder and it seems to have worked with the fireworks. Our Mini Schnauzer cross on the other hand is gunshot phobic and really didn't like the fireworks - she was fine with those let off in a sequence, but the idiots that were letting them off randomly within a few kms away on their property when we were outside doing the horses, upset her more. Thankfully she's fine inside, just pants a bit, then she calmed down and went to sleep. We have a CD coming so we can desensitise her to gunshots etc too - its a little hard to do it without the help of some sound recordings when our neighbours go shooting randomly at all times of the day/night. All our horses are used to our neighbours shooting, so they were pretty good during the fireworks!

Unfortunately as we are rural so very very quiet, but surrounded by suburbia on 3 sides we can here the big fireworks from Sydney, Penrith, Silverdale, Camden and Campbelltown!

I will post 52 weeks of my fav photo from that week - I will try and make it of my doggy pack but it will depend on the amount of photo work and uni each week

I've found a few from the last three months (the rest are archived)

My emotional favs:

Teddy on his 13th birthday - we lost him to brain tumours 2 weeks ago.

One from my first full frame sequence of a juvenile brown falcon - he'd just spotted his parent flying past to their roost tree with dinner. Unfortunately was in the rain and crappy light, plus he landed next to the perch I had set up, but either way I was excited

And first foal of the season - her first time on her feet and her Mum helping to keep her balanced!