My Venerable Old Mutt

[doug anderson]

Blackie (named by a little girl) Chihuahua Pomeranian mix.

We think she's fifteen or sixteen. She'd had two litters of pups before she was rescued plus the thirteen years we've had her. She was living on garbage on the streets of Hartford. She used to bite everybody, but now she's mellow. So do we all mellow.

I thought this was a good non-idealized and affectionate portrait, especially since I'm a super novice at flash.

 

[Kathy Rappaport]

Aging mutts

She looks so sweet laying there begging for a nose to be kissed. Not mine - you warned me.

The light looks natural and not flashed to me. Did you do a blur on the background? The baseboard looks oof but that wouldn;t be motion blur with flash. I think it's a wonderful portrait.

 

[doug anderson]

She looks so sweet laying there begging for a nose to be kissed. Not mine - you warned me.

The light looks natural and not flashed to me. Did you do a blur on the background? The baseboard looks oof but that wouldn;t be motion blur with flash. I think it's a wonderful portrait.

I bounced the flash off the ceiling and shot at 1/15 @ 5.6. I used a Nikon 85mm f1.8. I guess the wide aperture is responsible for the blurred baseboard. Does it really matter?

 

[janet Smith]

I guess the wide aperture is responsible for the blurred baseboard. Does it really matter?

Hi Doug

No it doesn't matter in the least, I have a dog of very similar age, also came to us at around 2 years old as a rescue dog, with all her bones standing out, afraid of everyone, snarling and growling, now she has made the most loving dog imaginable. I see similar traits in you dear little Blackie, lovely to see this quiet trust and contentment in dogs that endured a poor start in life isn't it. A shot you'll treasure I'm sure.....

 

[doug anderson]

Hi Doug

No it doesn't matter in the least, I have a dog of very similar age, also came to us at around 2 years old as a rescue dog, with all her bones standing out, afraid of everyone, snarling and growling, now she has made the most loving dog imaginable. I see similar traits in you dear little Blackie, lovely to see this quiet trust and contentment in dogs that endured a poor start in life isn't it. A shot you'll treasure I'm sure.....

Having a 8 X 10 print made as we speak.

D

 

[Michael_Stones]

Doug

There's a rhyme ...

You can tell a man who boozes
by the company he chooses
and the pig got up and slowly walked away.
​

Don't know who wrote it, but you clearly care for a lovely dog and to my mind that makes you a lovely man.

Great picture
Cheers
Mike

 

[doug anderson]

Doug

There's a rhyme ...

You can tell a man who boozes
by the company he chooses
and the pig got up and slowly walked away.
​

Don't know who wrote it, but you clearly care for a lovely dog and to my mind that makes you a lovely man.

Great picture
Cheers
Mike

Thanks, Mike.

D

 

[Gary Ayala]

Blackie doesn't look a day over fourteen ( ... at her age she she could be a Chinese gymnast ...). She seems very content.

Gary

 

[doug anderson]

Blackie doesn't look a day over fourteen ( ... at her age she she could be a Chinese gymnast ...). She seems very content.

Gary

Most of her life she has been a hysterical little mutt with terrible abandonment issues. She has calmed down considerably. May we have such a placid old age.