Animal Week or What?????

Guess this has been my week to grab some kinda interesting animal shots. The lower photo will probably upset some folks. Deborah didn't like the picture of her "Sweet Elsa" with the bird in her mouth. She is a really sweet and loving cat, but she is a cat. Stephen King so rightly stated that cats were the outlaws of the animal world. Too true.

I was at the Houston County Relay For Life last night when I spied Cloie,  a miniature  Dachshund and her master Mike walking down the Relay course well before the 6:30pm beginning ceremony. They were in the company of another small dog and master. Seems the Relay folks had asked that no doggies accompany the walkers, so Cloie had to leave. No telling what damage a three inch tall wiener dog could have done to the assembled masses.

Earlier in the week I was headed out to a shoot and found Elsa with her prey. She is quite the hunter. We have seen her snatch a flying bird from the air. Not like we don't feed her regularly. Purina should consider a Finch flavored cat food. Our four would be all over it. Guess it would not be the same, cats gotta be cats.

Photographers gotta be photographers, too. It was too good a photo to pass up.

Girls Soccer

I shot my first soccer game of the year last week. I aways worry a bit about shooting soccer. I guess I have not logged the hours shooting soccer that I have other Middle Georgia sports. Soccer is the "new sport" to me. It is fun to shoot, and the action never stops. Not like football or baseball where you have an idea where you want to be aiming the camera. I follow the ball most of the time shooting football, but you still have an idea where its going.

The top photo of Warner Robins Maggie Dimes was one of those shots where I wished I had been on the opposite side. As you can see, it was a heck of a photo, but would have been better had her foot not covered her face. But even with her face partly covered, from the other side you would not have seen her toes against the ball.

The second shot I didn't turn offer up for the newspaper, but thought it was a cool photo of Erin Hill lining up her kick while team mate Maggie Dimes takes a moment to put her hair back up...all the while keeping her eye on the ball as she ran forward.

You won't see that at a boy's game.