It’s a miracle! I’m online, have two cameras sitting next to me (both itching), and am writing. It has been quite a while; since March, in fact. Please, let me explain.
Shortly after my last post, or at least my last photo of the week, this showed up on my back deck:
Pre-adoption, pre-naming; how could I not take pity?
This poor animal was clearly starving, distrustful of both dogs and humans alike, and was clearly in mortal danger of starvation. I began feeding her, though she remained quite wary. After a few weeks of watching her and, to my surprise, her watching me, I decided I would keep her rather than drive her eight hours to a shelter. After a couple of weeks, she would come to me for affection and food and I would be grateful to see her observing me from a cautious distance when I went trekking on hikes.
After a breaking-in period, she has turned out to be a fantastic dog. All dog owners, or at least any worth their salt, would happily talk the hind leg off a horse about why their dog is the greatest and most interesting animal ever to grace the earth. They are all wrong, however; mine is.
Now, my dog, whose name is Korbo (from the French, “Corbeau”), was a wild animal. She is a mix of God knows what, though there is a strong husky/malamute influence, and making her a [semi]domestic creature was not without its perils. I lost a couch, almost a wall, have spent hours on training, and have to keep her well exercised. The result is a much less pitiful creature; she is happy, kind, gentle, intelligent, fully grown (I hope) and no longer starving. It only took several months.
Photo courtesy of my father (2013).
I also have had work, a social life to attend to, so forth and so on. There are plenty of things that occupy our time, energy and other resources. Otherwise we wouldn’t have bucket lists, we would have fulfilled lives (some of us, anyways). I have also fallen prey to these necessary distractions. So, I fell out of the routine of taking pictures, fell out of the routine of tending to my website and have fallen out of the routine of thinking much about photography.
Well, here I am; I have my Nikon D-SLR ready to go and an old Minolta SLR with a prime 50mm lens that I’m excited to play with, if for no other reason than to force me to think about my photos before I take them. I’m back in the game!
Stay tuned, as I will post some of the photos I have taken over the last few months in my “Photo of the Week” section and, with luck, will resume my regular updates and new shots. I will also endeavour to keep you up-to-date with any interesting happenings in my life, should they occur.