So today our topic will be digital
PONtography.
Taking pictures of us canine kids can be a
real challenge - and my human knows all about it. Let me begin with a little story…
A couple of years ago, our human had a VERY
nice digital camera. And she had this
“great idea.” She set the camera up on a
tripod and was going to get a photo of all three of us boys and her in a timed
release photo. She told us to sit and
stay, hit the shutter and raced over to where we were sitting and sat on the
ground with us. Of course we all got
excited and we all got up. Photo number
one – no good. She tried it again. Same result.
This time she tried it with some treats.
But we all looked at the treats instead of the camera. After about the 24th try, we
FINALLY stayed in place. BUT this time,
after the shutter went off – we all raced for the camera. And BOOM.
It hit the ground.
The man at the camera store told our human
that it would cost more to fix it than buy a new camera.
After that, our human began to take ALL of
our photos on an iPhone – and she still does that today. But to get a photo like the one you see here
involves quite a bit of a monologue on her part – that goes something like
this…..” Paxton sit. Frodo sit. Viktor sit.
Everybody sit. Stay. Staaaay.
Viktor sit. Waiiiiiiiit. Look here.
Look. Viktor sit. Staaaaaaaaaay. Staaaaaaaay.
Viktor sit. Paxton. Paxton.
PAXTON. Viktor sit. Look here.
Treats! Treats! Viktor sit.
Good boy Frodo. Who’s
coming? Viktor sit. PLEASE EVERYBODY SIT!!!!!!!!!!”
Our neighbors – who actually live a good
distance away can no doubt hear this whole thing – as our human gets louder and
LOUDER as the photo shoot goes on.
Eventually we all look at her and smile –
just to get this photo shoot finished. Seriously,
all she needed to do was say “cheese.”
Remember what I said before about us
canines being superior to humans? I rest
my case.
© 2014 Linda Wozniak
© 2014 Linda Wozniak
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