Tag: Roxie Finds

We first noticed it with Ivy. She loved laying in the stripes of sunshine that play out on our floor. Roxie is the same.

My initial inclination is to assume this is a ‘dogwide’ phenomena even though two examples is a little light for a scientific study. I’m sure you’ll let me know.

As I type Roxie is on her back on the rug in our foyer. Her snout and chest are in the shade. The area from her belly to her rear legs are in full sun.

Roxie’s coat is dark. She’s absorbing lots of heat from the strong August sun. In the abstract that would seem uncomfortable, but it’s her optimum choice.

She’s relatively motionless right now. In and of itself that’s unusual. As a teething puppy Roxie is usually in motion playing with her toys or biting at something or someone. It’s nice to see her adopt this more adult behavior.

Tonight at work someone asked, “Do you just keep a camera on the coffee table?”

Yeah. Of course. You don’t?

The dog continues to be too photogenic… too expressive to leave undocumented.

It takes more failed shots to come up with a good dog portrait than a human portrait. There are many that are out-of-focus or have Roxie cut out of the the shot.

I’m mostly shooting these on my belly. The viewfinder is sometimes in an inconvenient position. In that case I’ll use the red focus beacon from the strobe gun to do my aiming.

As far as I’m concerned it has been decided. The only way to shoot a dog as at a dog’s eye level. With a tiny dog you are down very low.

Saturday Stef will be taking Roxie to the vet for her third parvo shot. They says she can then go outside. We’ll see.