Glowing

Dog Blog Post #388: "... to boldly go where no one has gone before."

Ok. That might be taking things a bit too far.

The Daily Shoot assignment?

Make a photograph today of something that you've not made a photograph of before.

Days like this make me think someone over there is out to get me.

Thankfully, there are no Daily Shoot police (at least none that I've run across) and I resolved to find something completely different to throw in the picture. Something I have never tried before. Something like...

A Headlamp!

Oddly enough, given Henry's "No way, no how," approach to the top hat. He had no problems with the headlamp. True, I've been working with him per the Bi-Weekly worksheet (Yes, it's now Bi-Weekly. Give me a break. It's summer!)

I started by using a towel and just running it gently over his head, gradually increasing the amount of time it spent on his head, and the amount of his head it covered. In just a few days he was totally oblivious to the towel - an object he was already quite familiar with anyway.

Today was the first day I tried something other than a towel, and was rather surprised that he let me slide it on without issue. He pawed at it the first few times. Dipped his head a time or two. And the settled down to completely ignoring it.

Zachary ignored it from the start, but that didn't surprise me. He's an old hand at me putting things on his head. :)

My preferred shot was this one...

... which was the original aspect ratio. Alas, I discovered (after uploading, of course) that in square thumbnail form, the light is completely lopped off. Hence the cropped version up top.

Here's a few other takes on the picture...

... that one is Zachary (in case you can't tell.)

This series makes the third and final test of "Down @ 5 ft" for CM101.

And finally, for Scavenge Challenge ("Pennants, banners and ribbons wave in the wind") we have Old Glory...

I'm not even going to admit to how many days I tried shooting flags of all sorts to get one decent shot. Either the wind was too light, or too strong (which was dull) or the wrong direction in relation to me, the flag, or the sun... arg!

One the bright side, I considered Henry's shot (way up top) a three-fer, as it also (hopefully) satisfies the scavenge challenge of "a clever photo with a light bulb" (clever? probably a stretch, but it does have a light bulb) and Our Daily Challenge ("Begins with G" - see post title.)

Editor's Note: You have no idea how much I wanted to sit on these headlamp shots until Wordless Wednesday, and if I had had ANYTHING else to put in the blog today, I would have!

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