Repeating Patterns

Dog Blog Post #300: Post #300? Wow! That deserves a band, or a cake, or something...

... but, alas, no. It's dog class night, I'm tired, my hands smell like hot dog despite having washed them 1000 times, and trying to dream up something fancy is beyond me at the moment.

"So how was dog class," you ask?

Why, it was pretty good, actually. If you recall that last class I freaked Henry out by backing him away from the "friendly strangers" when he broke his sit. That led to him thinking I thought the strangers weren't so friendly, and thus he began to stand behind me and peer around my leg, as though expecting them to sprout horns and start devouring the canines in the class.

Oops. My bad.

This week, all I wanted was for him to keep four-on-the-floor, and for the most part, he did. He also seemed to have forgotten that these were scary people last week, and greeted all with a happy wag, and (mostly) four-on-the-floor.

By the end, he was actually sitting and soaking up the lovin', so perhaps we both got what we wanted. :)

We also worked on recalls (I love peanut butter in little pouches), sits-n-downs, stays (doing mighty fine, there), heeling (sigh), and trying to walk to another dog without running to the end of the leash to go visit.

Did I mention he was doing mighty fine in stays?
... and recalls?

Well, maybe we should just leave it at that.

Today's Daily Shoot assignment:

Make a photograph that features repeating patterns.

Well, I thought I had a good idea. I broke out "the set" and a piece of fabric I picked up a few weeks ago that I was holding in reserve until "just the right moment".

Alas, it seems I got the Missing Skill of the Day, as when I pulled it out of the fabric basket, and draped it over the backboard, I didn't notice all the wrinkles.

Ok... I did noticed them just a bit, but I figured if anything looked too bad I could just stamp it out in my fake photoshop.

Wrong

It seems that trying to use the stamp tool for a repeating but yet random pattern in many colors is well above my skill level.

Sigh

Yes, I took some pictures of Henry, too. No, the didn't come out any better (or worse) but as Henry has been in the last few daily shoots, and had several paragraphs devoted to class time, I thought Zachary deserved the lime-light tonight.

And for the (non-dog) Scavenge Challenge we have "Tacky knick-knacks - check your mother's house!" For better or worse, I didn't need to fly down to mom's for this not-so-little guy (standing over a foot tall!)...

... but if you want to know his history, you'll have to click on the image. This is a dog blog, after all!

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