Sweet Sisters

It is so hard to believe that Zoe's 10th birthday is right around the corner and then Lexi will turn 10 years old in December. These two have been the best of friends since I adopted them all those years ago. I love the bond they share as sisters! It's so much fun watching them play together.

I never know what I am going to get when I bust out the camera to take photos of them. Sometimes Zoe does better sitting for photos and sometimes Lexi is the perfect poser. Sometimes both of them are little hellions and won't stay put and very, very rarely both of them will sit and stay in place like perfect little angels.

Today was one of those days where Zoe kept popping up at every turn. I'd get them both in place, pick up my camera and I wouldn't get more than a shot or two fired off before Zoe would come running towards me.  So I had an awful lot of photos that looked just like this one...

 

I managed to get her to lay down for a photo...

Oh but look, she's back up again...

It's a good thing she's so adorable!...

And so is her sister, Lexi!...

The dogs really do love chilling in their yard...

Cuteness Overload...

I finally got her to sit still for a few minutes...

But not for long!...

These two hooligans bring me so much joy and happiness. I am so lucky to have them in my life!

Who could resist that face?...

Or that one!?...

I LOVE this one of Lexi...

And this one of Zoe...

Whatcha lookin' at ZoZo?...

I took about a zillion photos of Zoe and Lexi running toward the camera, but by the time I was shooting these it was a little too dark. I had to crank my ISO up to 8000 and even then I still had to lighten them up in photoshop quite a bit. As a result, all of these photos are grainy and some of them are a bit out of focus. However, I just couldn't resist how cute and silly the pups looked in them so I decided to post some of them anyway...

Poor Zoe just can't keep up with Lexi no matter what she does! And she never has been able to. Zoe has to outsmart her to catch her since she can't out run her!

If you made it this far, thanks for stopping by the blog!

 

Michele Whitacre used to be a portrait photographer serving Phoenix, Arizona.  Now she just takes photos for fun when the mood strikes.
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Little Cuties

I took these when I took photos of Daisy and Gatsby in honor of their adoption anniversary.

Here are some black and white photos of my little puppy cutie patooties:

Sweet Zoe...

And Little Lexi Lou...

Look at that adorable little face...

Somebody's sleepy...

The "where are my treats" for being good and posing stare down...

Another adorable little face...

I just love my little goobers!  Their cute little faces bring a smile to mine.  I hope you enjoyed seeing them, too. Thanks for stopping by!

Michele Whitacre used to be a portrait photographer serving Phoenix, Arizona.  Now she just takes photos for fun when the mood strikes.
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Back So Soon?

I am really struggling with what the heck I'm supposed to be photographing now that I'm back to shooting but no longer taking portraits.  I'm used to looking at my surroundings to find good locations as backdrops for portraits.  I have no idea what I'm doing as I attempt to actually take photos of those surroundings! I've set out on a few outings recently to take photos of something, only to look at the images later and realize that they are complete and utter crap.

I am learning a lot about what I do and don't like to photograph, though.  Or maybe I should say I am being reminded, as the same applied when I was shooting portraits.  I love shooting when I have time to create exactly what I want with my photos.  I like being able to really consider my shots. I enjoy looking at my subject from different angles and experimenting with different options.  I don't enjoy photography as much when I'm in a rush to try to capture a moment before it is gone.  It feels too stressful to photograph things when I don't have time to fully study or consider them.  I guess to me it feels like the difference between creating and capturing.  I like knowing that I created great shots, versus just hoping I managed to capture them while things were whirling past.

I've been spending some time working through a list of exercises to 'improve your photography' that I found online.  I keep hoping that eventually I will have some photos that I like well enough to share on the blog.  In the mean time, I resorted to an old fall back for when I feel taking some photos, but have no clue what to point my camera at - Zoe & Lexi.  So, even thought it hasn't been very long since they were on the blog, I decided to share some new images of them. (It's a good thing they're so darn cute!)

My goal was to capture candid images of them, so I put on my longest zoom lens and sat on the patio waiting for them to wander out into the yard.  However, they had other plans!  They knew it was time for photos, and they never left my side.  So, I finally gave up my plans and opted to take more portraits of them.

They definitely did a lot better than they did last time!  I had a hard time narrowing down the photos, so I opted to just share a bunch of them...

Thanks for stopping by!

Michele Whitacre used to be a portrait photographer serving Phoenix, Arizona.  Now she just takes photos for fun when the mood strikes.
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