Log(pye)

I’d been psyching myself up for the past two weeks for Friday. For it was the annual Wiener Dog Races at Emerald Downs. I think I must’ve read about this event at least half a year ago and scheduled a reminder in Outlook. It just popped up in August and I’ve been working my schedule around it!

Anyway, it was a pretty fun evening… it was great to be out and taking some pictures and winding down a long week. It was sunny, calm, and a balmy 89 degrees – a perfect evening to be outside.

So back to the dogs. I went with no expectations and was rewarded by what I saw… I found out while I was there that the dogs would race two heats, and a final, between the seven horse races of the night. I don’t quite understand horse racing, but it was still nice to try to take a couple of shots of the horses in motion. I definitely found it much more challenging than taking pictures of still life. When the dogs came out for the very first heat, I readied my camera, thinking that I’d have to pan pretty quick since I was relatively close to the track and I’d have to follow the dogs as they run by. Once the gates opened, the dogs were let go of… and they ran in EVERY direction possible. One dog bolted to the finish line, all the others were either busy sniffing someone else’s butt, or as a lady later told me, in search of horse poop on the track! Super duper hilarious!

Couldn’t have been fair not to share any pictures…

All touched up in Photoshop Lightroom 2, using a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet… it was actually pretty fun, but I’m definitely not used to it… My accuracy using a pen on the screen is about half of it is using a mouse to navigate

..eyp; less than a week to vacation time!