Tobie had his dinner and immediately began harassing me for his evening walkie. No problem; beautiful day, can’t wait. We got to the top of the climb on the beaten path between the Lair and Ian’s Cave. The moon was just coming up over the eastern hills and it was perfect. I had to have a picture of that. A few minutes later and the light would be all wrong. Of course all I had with me was my phone and that wasn’t up to the job…
Okay, I’ve gotta go home right frickin’ now and get a proper camera. Tobie, no lover of landscape photography, hadn’t yet begun the main business of the evening walkie and wasn’t about to speed things up just for me. He has his own ideas about aesthetics: A proper poop must involve exactly the right setting, the right mood. You can’t rush art, Uncle Joel. He tested and rejected four or five widely-spaced poop spots – toward the end I swear he was just doing it to annoy me.
At last the deed was done and I rushed him back to the Lair with what he clearly considered indecent haste. Got the Treat Ritual out of the way with very little ceremony and rushed into the closet to grab my small camera body. Never mind the lens, it’s probably already too late!
And it pretty much was: The light was going and the moon had already shrunk.
Ya know Joel I like the second picture better. One of these days I’d really like to come out there and visit for a day or two, looks like great country.
Eric.
I agree with Eric. The lower sun gave it the perfect color.
Yeah my dogs are in training for the Olympic Synchronized Dog Poop Team, but they REALLY need to practice together…
I agree that the second shot is better. Crop off about half of the black shadow (make the shadow half the width as the red part). You can title it, “For Tobie” 😉
Trust Tobie’s artistic judgement. Great pic Joel
Is your phone camera really that bad, or is the lens just covered in desert or pocket lint? Before I got a case with a built-in lens cover I’d almost always take a picture, look at it, wipe the lens off and take the picture again. It amazes me that it took so long for lens covers to be an easily found feature of phone cameras.