A few pictures I took while testing out some new gear!
This was was shot as ISO 3200, easily the highest ISO I have ever shot a picture at!!
and another with some off camera flash…
and I can’t forget some of the household pets…
It seems no one wants to post new pictures. I had thought a few of the other “geeks” had a road trip or two? In the meantime I think it is time to push the last post down a spot so here is the big guy, Angus, from Sunday past. ???? ????? ??????? ???? ???? ???????
Yes, I have 2 dogs. I have posted more pictures of Angus here but it is now time for him to share the spotlight with Akida.
Akida is the alpha dog of the house. Though she is outweighted by 132 lbs that does not stop her from imposing her will on Angus. She steals his bones (the ones small enough that she can actually move them), has her choice of sleeping spots and is the first to charge the door at any approaching danger (like the mailman). She has also decided that the easiest way to get a drink or snack is to wait for Angus to get the refreshments and then she can drink from his flews and grab any snack crumbs off his chest!! Her actions remind me of those fish that hang around sharks all the time!!
As requested…. here they are together.
I didn’t really have puppy fever until I got to spend some camera time with Aqua’s Luna. She is an awesome puppy, 11 weeks old, the same age as Angus was when I first picked him up. Sadly I cannot possibly handle another puppy right now so I will have to regulate myself to just stalking Newf puppies with my camera!!
So here is Luna.
Nope, not mine. He is tight lipped, his flews are not big enough to hold copious amounts of drool, at least he doesn’t think so.
Here he is posing for the camera, completely oblivious to the thick, slimy “flooger” strung between his eyes.
That’s right, nothing to see here, no floogers to be found anywhere. After all Angus doesn’t drool.
Ok, he drools a little… when he is sleeping!! Most other times he can be found with perfectly symmetrical floogers hanging in wait for anyone to get within range so he can deposit them on your clothes!
Outside in the snow he can fling those suckers the length of the yard when he shakes his head. I’ve been hit by many flying slingers, but the worse are the half frozen ones, we’ll just call those floogcicles. I have no pictures of them as I fear for the camera lens getting in the way of the line of fire and shattering in my hands.
So in closing, if you see a Newfoundland Dog breeder advertising the “non-drooling” variety run very quickly the other way! Drool happens….. and finds its way into and onto everything, especially clean clothes!!
The next question I will address is “Do Newfoundland dogs shed?”. I will try to explain that natural phenomenon another time. 
