this blog goes to the dogs

After doing a post for Bear, I just could leave the dogs out. I don't know why we come up with odd nicknames for our pets, but we seem to accumulate them. Edison, our collie, has become Edi-san or Big Man. We also call him Turkey Butt because when you look at him from the rear in the winter with all his fur, it kind of looks like big fluffy turkey legs.




Brandy, our lab-mix has become the Bran-dito or Hog Dog. She lets out the funniest snorts sometimes when she gets excited and is rolling around!




Even though both dogs were originally Joe's, Edison has really become my dog. He will follow me around the house and come to me even when Joe is the one is calling him. He really is a mamma's boy!





Brandy is certainly a daddy's girl, though. She loves attention from anyone, but Joe's attention is special! My husband says that she is Honda of dogs, runs great for a really long time, low maintenance cost, and easy to take care of.





He also says that Edison is more like a Jaguar. A specialty dog where the people that have them love them, but everyone else wonders why you would ever own one. There is a lot of upkeep and maintenance, but they sure look pretty!

These last six portraits were taken with a Holga camera, which is a plastic toy camera from China that uses medium format film. There is two apertures (cloudy and sunny), one shutter speed, and no real focusing. I bought one from HolgaMods, a company that modifies them slightly to make them a bit more versatile. I like to get it out and play every once in a while because you can get some really fun pictures with it!