The first week of January, I caught a status update on Facebook from the blog Pensacola with Kids. It’s a great Facebook page to follow when you’re looking for stuff to do on weekends around here.
They suggested the four-day-long Pensacola Dog Fanciers Association Agility Trials that started on Thursday of that week and lasted through the weekend (January 3-6, 2013). With our boys’ affinity for border collies, this was a no brainer.
It was a fun, super-laid-back event. We were very sad that we didn’t bring Howie, dogs were welcome to come as spectator. There were a few rules about keeping the visiting dogs from distracting the dogs, but Howie would have been perfectly fine.
We had a fun time! The kids LOVED watching the dogs compete, especially the more novice dogs that were VERY easily distracted…one of them saw a “friend” across the arena and completely STOPPED his course run to go and visit.
I took our telephoto lens with our new camera, but it’s clear that I have a lot to learn about our camera. I had a hard time capturing the super-fast dogs, but it’s a work in progress.
Here are some pictures from our day….
Timmy saw a friend from school and the two of them hung out most of the time.
What you’re looking at here are the handlers walking the course, like a rehearsal.
This kind woman was the emcee for the event, and in between events she brought animals up for the kids to pet.
Melt my heart! I switched to my 55-200mm telephoto lens and could get these detailed photos while still sitting up in the stands.
Training.
I have a lot to learn about photographing action. This is what most of my pictures look like of the dogs in motion. I fiddled with the exposure and f-stop somewhat, but I didn’t do much better than this.
That border collie was CRAZY fast!
My favorite of all the action pictures.
When the dog goes through the ring at the end of the course, the timer stops.
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