Had such an excellent time at the Capital City Cluster dog show here in Topeka this year! Now that I’m not working with dogs professionally, I’m having a lot of fun exploring all the different ways I can fit them into my life. I’ve been doing some volunteering for the local kennel club and I spent the weekend ring stewarding for the first time, but I also had a chance to shoot a little bit. My uncle’s D500 and 80-200mm came in quite handy.
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I was mostly shooting some of my favorite Boxers –that’ll be a whole other post!– but I managed to get in a couple laps around the arena during the tail end of the show on Sunday.
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I guess I shot enough that there will probably be a couple of dog show posts before I wrap it up just in time to head to the next show here in a few weeks. Poor Alfie will have to adjust to sharing his blog space.
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This pair might have been my favorite of the weekend–I’m enamored with that drool rag. Your bestie could never.
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