Watching The World Wake

The boys were out for an early morning run.
The sun was coming up and the dew vaporizing.

The brothers explored.

T looks to the west

Uschi surveys his domain.

Tanji's tail was swishing from side to side
as he watched the world wake around him.

Something of interest catches his eyes.

It was Uschi looking back and

then approaching, which

got Tanj running.


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D80 Update

We have been shooting many, many pictures with the Nikon D80 and are learning how to use as well as getting use to using it. The pictures we are capturing are a significant step up. The colors, sharpness, and poses are at a level we haven't captured before. One reason for the new poses is because we have it set to "continuous shoot" mode, so if we hold down the shutter button it takes up to three pictures every second. This is great for catching running and jumping scenes as well as the facial and body expressions that were always just before or after we pushed the shutter button on the point and shoot. We have been using a fixed focal length 50mm lens while we are learning, so some of the more distant pictures when blown-up and cropped aren't "perfect" but are still pictures we would never have caught in the past. The resolution of the D80 gives us the ability to zoom in more when cropping, bringing out the part of the picture we are interested in. Anyway, today will be our second D80 posting, including some of the better shots, most of which go with future "story-line" blogs.

The boys were running fast about 125 feet away
and came out as tiny specs in the picture.
I was shooting almost directly into the sun.

Mooom, you could be petting me,...

Tanji was outside in his kennel,
while Uschi was inside.

I like this shot of Tanj howling in the kennel. He was just a tiny spec in the picture, this is a significant blow-up/crop, about 30 feet away. I shot this from the same position on the bed, as the one above,... through a double-pane, dirty glass window and through a layer of the kennel mesh (just seen in the upper left corner) so this is basically a blow-up of one of the mesh squares seen in the previous shot.

Tanji on wet rocks

Uschi chomped green grass

Tanj tried some Thyme.

Uschi and

Tanj enjoy the wet woods.

A couple of more blow-up shots

Tanji running in his natural habitat.

Uschi coming at you.

Nice depth of field.

Tanji had a good day out,

and takes a nap.


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Painting With Lavs

Inspirational photos

When Lesley begins to work on a new T&U painting she first works out a theme. Often this involves discussions about possible settings and poses. Then she searches the blog for inspirational reference pictures. This work is currently under development. It will eventually have nine 3"x3" paintings mounted inside a larger frame.

Tanji selects his favorite shots.

Often I help out in the process by
making the frames, and now cutting
and sometimes gessoing the boards.

Daaaad, what are you doing?

Uschi likes to be sure there is
a little of him imbedded in every painting.
(there are always Uschi furs)

Uschi keeps a close eye on quality control.

and gives his stamp of approval.

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Napping In The Sun

Two cuddling brothers.

Lesley told me she jumped on the bed the other day
to take a nap in the sun. There were no bengal boys
on the bed when she fell asleep. Later, when she woke
this is what she found.

Happy brothers enjoying the sun.

Happy Tanj,

gets some Uschin'

Once Lesley got up,

the boys stretched out.

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LIVESTRONG-grrrrr

In our household we all wear our
LIVESTRONG™ wristbands.

Tanj regularly finds Lesley's band
next to the bed during the night, then
enjoys playing with with the bright yellow band.

Whooo Hooo, I LIVESTRONG every day!

and like to "Wear Yellow."

Get back here,...

Nice focus,...

I like rubber bands, but

I'm not wearing yellow!!


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Baaaad Boys

Oops, how did this happen?

Tanj and Uschi are very good boys. Typically, we only have to tell them not to touch something once (with a hiss, a yelp, or a "no"), and they usually stay clear from then on. That includes Les' exercise videos (The Firm, FitPrime, Tracie Long, Mindy Mylrea) - they are strictly "paws off." Well, the boys were in the middle of a good wrestling match and somehow all of the "current rotation" videos got disturbed...

This is what the "current rotation" should look like

Then the boys shot under the TV,

Videos are scattering everywhere
(Of course, we're snapping photos)

The boys pick a favorite...
("Flying Casanovas" indeed)

Uschi is baiting Tanj

"Tanj, Usch, what are you doing???!!!"

Tanj knows he was bad,
you can see it in his eyes.
"I'm out of here!"
Uschi is having too much fun...

Oops, my paw seems to be
pushing these videos over...

Wow, weights too, this must be
my lucky day!

"Uschi, stop messing with those videos!"

Who, me?

Whatever, I'll do what I want!


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