October 17, 2019

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #67 CANDID SHOTS

This week Ann-Christine challenges us to show a few Candid pictures.  She says “taking photos of people or animals if they have no idea that you’re doing it is called candid photography. One of the beautiful things with photography is being able to catch someone in the act.  It adds natural life to your picture taking.”  After reading this, I decided to go back into my photo archives for a few candid shots of Cocker Spaniels, which sadly are no longer with us.   These two dogs, Spencer and Winston, gave our family wonderful memories as they consistently showed their love of life and each for other.   “In the world…

September 6, 2019

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #61 PRECIOUS PETS

This week Tina invites us to share pictures and a few thoughts about precious pets that have been in our life or have somehow touched us.  I cannot remember being without a pet of some sort and usually had several different ones at the same time – because our family consisted of three boys! Need I say more??   The assortment of “pets” varied over the years; a parakeet, a snake or two, ferrets, a few frogs, lizards, and tank full of tropical fish.  The more traditional (or normal) pets over the years were several Irish Setters, a rescued Siberian husky, a poodle, two Himalayan cats and American cocker spaniels.  Now that…