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Well.. one thing for sure: It’s not me anymore! See below for the setup of a typical night in the home theater. Now.. See the tiny little space left on the left side: that’s for me!

Hard the life life of a dog like ours… The right picture shows how he looks at you when you dare wake him up when it’s time to go back up the stairs for the night…

You can’t say he is not adorable though :).

For the last 17 days, we have kept our friend’s dog named “Trails”. He’s a brittany spaniel and he is adorable. If only he did not pull so much when walking! We worked on that small issue for the last 2 weeks and he is better now, but it’s hard to be effective when walking 2 dogs at the same time.

Other than that, it went really well. Both dogs are behaving nicely together. They are playing a lot. The bed gets crowded in the morning though..

Our friends are about to get back in town and yesterday evening I decided to break out the flashes and umbrellas and try to snap a portrait or 2 with the help of Corinne. We only did a few ones with a single setup because it was quite late already when we got to it.

Trails was cooperating pretty well: that dog would do anything for a piece of food. Not so much luck with the poor Newton. He was simply terrorized by the umbrella I use to diffuse light. Can you tell? hehe!

Album below.

Trails in studio

We brought Newton to the park Sunday morning to play fetch. He loves running after the ball. Took some action shots of him running at full throttle. Here are a few pictures.

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Newton playing ball

It’s been a while since I brought the camera to one of our (many) walks with Newton. Today was the perfect day to do so. The sun was out and it was a very nice day.

Here are a few snapshots of my 2 loves

There was some kind of dog day at the park with agility demonstrations. One of the poor pooch was tinted in pink. Quite funny actually!

Please take a few minutes to look at the other pictures in the album!

Newton at Malden Park

While I had to camera and the flash setup out to photograph the trophy, Newton fell asleep right beside me. I used the same lighting setup (a snoot on an off-camera flash to concentrate the light in a specific spot) to catch him in his sleep. Who would believe that sometimes he still is a little devil???

After the Leamington Triathlon race, our friends Tracy and Craig came home for a swim, with their dog Trails. Since we installed a stairway in the pool, Newton is crazy about swimming. He actually bugs us all the time to go in. He does not even need a toy. He’ll go in just for a swim by himself.

Here are a few pictures of that day.

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Newton and Trails swimming

For his first birthday, Corinne brought our dog Newton for a 30 minute swim at the pool of the Essex Animal Hospital. They use it for therapy, but you can rent the pool to swim with your dog.

A bit unsure at the beginning, Newton soon embraced the toy fetching game. He loves water, swimming, and fetching toys. Therefore he had a blast!

Here are some pictures:

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Our Dog Newton is 1 year old today! Cool: that means that  starting tomorrow, he will be only adorable and not destroy anything anymore… right?

 Click me to see all the pictures of Newton in our Photo Album.

Last weekend, we went for another walk at Ojibway Park with Newton. Our dog really LOVES the snow. He actually becomes a bit crazy when there is snow on the ground. He jumps in it, hides in it, digs in it, hide his toys in it, etc.

 So the of course Newton had a blast after the snowfall last weekend.

We encountered the usual suspects: Cardinals, Woodpeckers and Tufted Titmouse.

Hope you liked the pictures. The album has much more.

Few weeks ago, I bought a couple of lightstands and umbrellas to be able to use my flash off the camera.

An evening last week, we did a very quick setup to take some Christmas pictures with Newton. We got him a Christmas hat and antlers from the dollar store for fun.

We were more than happy with the results, considering the small amount of preparation we used for this. I have setup a second flash unit, a very basic Vivitar 285HV manual flash for the background illumination.

Enough details.. Here are some pictures we got with this setup:

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Christmas 2008 Portraits