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July 2, 2013
by Dawn Marie 8 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable

Last Friday I saw this weeks photo challenge and was really excited. But in order to participate I had to pull out my hard drive and dig in to my archives for a picture.

I love animals. We had cats growing up, but due to my mom’s pet dander allergy, they lived outside. But I always wanted a dog.

When I was in high school I was kinda obsessed about dogs. Finally my husband (well, he wasn’t my husband then) and I decided to get a dog.

It was the fall of 1997.

I wanted a rottweiler or a lab, but he wanted to look at a pitt-lab mix. His boss had one and it was such a great a dog that Hubby wanted to see about getting one.

I wasn’t sold on the idea.

Until this dog came and sat on my foot, put his head on my knee and looked me in the eye.

I started to tear up and said “This one. We will take this one.”

My Blitz Dog

He was my companion, my friend, my pillow, my heater. He was my dog.

I miss him. Man, do I miss him.

I had always thought I would always want a dog. But after Blitz was gone I realized I would only want this dog.

We have another dog, not to replace him; we got her when he was about seven or so. I love her, I do, it’s just not the same.

I don’t think I will ever love a dog, like I loved him.

Happy Shooting

June 7, 2013
by Dawn Marie 21 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

This weeks challenge topic is ‘Fleeting‘

I had started to do these photo challenges to try to get back to photographing things other than my children. Don’t get me wrong, I love taking and having their pictures, I just wanted to broaden my spectra.

However, this weeks challenge speaks of childhood.

Childhood is fleeting. Innocence is fleeting. Being able to find pure joy in the splashing of water is fleeting.

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

~Henri Cartier-Bresson

In a blink of an eye our babies change to toddler; our toddlers turn to teens; and then our teens turn to adults.

Each picture I take is trying to capture that fleeting moment in their lives.

Happy Shooting

May 22, 2013
by Dawn Marie 5 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

This weeks photo challenge is Escape.

I thought a lot about what ‘Escape’ means to me.

I have a lot of pictures of wonderful places I like to go. Especially places around here. My husband and I used to escape up to the mountains, when it’s nice, all the time. So I have a lot of pictures

We would just throw the dogs in the car and drive.

Now though, I find my escape in these two boys.