Golden Lab

StueveShotsStueveShots Registered Users Posts: 544 Major grins
edited January 14, 2010 in Wildlife
I'm finally ready to post my first picture for comment. Keeping my fingers crossed it embeds right! Let me know what you think...

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2010
    Welcome wave.gif

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    A little more room around that great lookin Lab would be Cool !
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2010
    Welcome and I hope to see more of your images.
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  • StueveShotsStueveShots Registered Users Posts: 544 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2010
    Hi, bfjr. Nice to "meet" you.

    I don't disagree...but considering that 3 seconds later he knocked me over to lick me in greeting, I was happy to have caught this. I liked the golden light of the setting sun on his coat (I'm happy when the russet tones pop), the look in his eye and the fact that I could see that retriever smile starting. My other shots that day never caught the light in his eye.

    Sometimes he's more cooperative...I'll post a full shot later when I'm at my other computer.

    Hi to you, also, Harryb.
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  • GaleGale Registered Users Posts: 1,052 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2010
    Welcome
    Beautiful Pup you have there.
    Nice light
    Best Regards
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  • StueveShotsStueveShots Registered Users Posts: 544 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2010
    Okay, here is the big boy a couple of weeks ago...the fresh snow and noon sun (harsh!) highlighted all his white hair (two generations before him are a number of solid white retrievers). I like his look. He just spotted his archenemy--our calico cat. (Sorry about the bulky double-collar--he's wearing his radio-control unit because he's got run of our five acres--when he hears my beep, he comes right home.)

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    And here he is two years ago with his brothers (basking in the hot mid-day sun). :

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    Finally, here is a shot of his mom from some years ago (taken at Gold Bluffs Beach in Northern California with an old AE-1):


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    Thanks for the warm welcome.
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  • BackdoctorBackdoctor Registered Users Posts: 36 Big grins
    edited January 13, 2010
    nice shots! I had a yellow lab years ago, she was with me 15 years. Nothing more loyal or unconditional than a retrievers love.

    Got to visit my cousin for New Years. She has two 8 yr old labs Rags and Daisy that are 100lbs, and the puppy Becky who is only 70 lbs. Woke up new years morning with them jumping in bed to say hello. Here they are on their mom and dads bed:

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    They are the best dogs to have. Perfect temperment. If I show my girlfriend the puppy photo, she might stoop saying no to getting a puppy...
  • StueveShotsStueveShots Registered Users Posts: 544 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2010
    Hey...anything I can do to aid and abet a fellow dog lover...


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    Your cousin's dogs are beautiful! Thanks for sharing. We've owned a beautiful chocolate lab, a golden retriever (the mom pictured above) and now a golden ret/yellow lab mix (the big boy)....all were/are wonderful. Their personalities can't be beat.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2010
    StueveShots wrote:
    Hey...anything I can do to aid and abet a fellow dog lover...


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    Your cousin's dogs are beautiful! Thanks for sharing. We've owned a beautiful chocolate lab, a golden retriever (the mom pictured above) and now a golden ret/yellow lab mix (the big boy)....all were/are wonderful. Their personalities can't be beat.

    This one needs a, "Cute Alert" thumb.gif
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,942 moderator
    edited January 13, 2010
    What a cute pooch!
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2010
    I know dogs are impossible to photograph. (I have a GSP)

    I like the light in this one and the framing would have worked if the dog had just turned toward you a bit to catch the eye.
  • StueveShotsStueveShots Registered Users Posts: 544 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2010
    Agreed, Ric. The only time it is easy to take a picture of him is when he's on point. I'll keep trying!

    Ric, I noticed you listed a 7D among your cameras. How do you like it? I still use an old Rebel XT...I'm way behind the times and am thinking about saving up for something much better. I've used Canons all my life...my first was an AE-1.

    Thanks for the comments!
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