{"id":1696,"date":"2013-01-24T18:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T23:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2013-01-24T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T23:21:27","slug":"florida-discoveries-36-pensacola-dog-fanciers-association-agility-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/01\/florida-discoveries-36-pensacola-dog-fanciers-association-agility-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Discoveries 36: Pensacola Dog Fanciers Association Agility Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first week of January, I caught a status update on Facebook<\/a> from the blog Pensacola with Kids<\/a>. It’s a great Facebook page to follow when you’re looking for stuff to do on weekends around here.<\/p>\n

They suggested the four-day-long Pensacola Dog Fanciers Association Agility Trials<\/a>\u00a0that 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures from our day….<\/p>\n

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Timmy saw a friend from school and the two of them hung out most of the time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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What you’re looking at here are the handlers walking the course, like a rehearsal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This kind woman was the emcee for the event, and in between events she brought animals up for the kids to pet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Melt my heart! I switched to my 55-200mm telephoto lens and could get these detailed photos while still sitting up in the stands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Training.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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That border collie was CRAZY fast!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My favorite of all the action pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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When the dog goes through the ring at the end of the course, the timer stops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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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\u00a0that started on Thursday of that week and lasted through … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[346,347,345,97,626,344],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agility","tag-agility-trials","tag-dogs","tag-florida","tag-florida-discoveries","tag-pensacola-dog-fanciers-association"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t