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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:

More pictures and larger versions available in the photo album below.

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:

More pictures and larger versions in the album below.

Christmas 2008 Portraits

Yesterday was actually very nice. There was a small snowfall and we went to Ojibway Park with our good friends Craig and Tracy and of course Trails!

We got there a little bit before them, and I could catch a few birds.

Woodpecker, Female and Male:

Chickadee and American Goldfinch:

Here are some pics of the group:

The album is linked below.

Snow Walk Ojibway