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Project 52 - Week 38: Blur

9/18/2015

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It is no joke when I say, that when I saw the theme for Week 38--Blur--I figured the easiest thing to do would be to make Billie my subject and use a manual focus lens.

Billie lives most of her life in a Blur. She is a scruffy terrier who was found as a stray, wandering the byways of a rural county with her sister.  She was pregnant, and ended up having her six adorable puppies at a local shelter.  She is definitely a member of the Lurcher family of dogs.  She plays hard. Our Border Collie, Piper, is extremely happy she came to live with us because he definitely needed a "player" in his life.

I kid you not when I tell you that even when she is sitting still, she isn't sitting still.  Once in a while, if I am very quiet, and very patient, I can snap a very very good photo of her. These times are few and far between.  My thoughts have always been to one day  have a contest for all of my photography friends, with Billie as their subject, and challenge them to get a fully in-focus photo that did not make her eyes seem like she was wearing a Zorro mask.

So, my plan (or story board, if you remember last week), was: Me, Camera, 135mm manual focus lens, Billie, the yard, and a sure fire recipe for Blur.  What I got was this.
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Perfect late, late afternoon light, a wonderfully blurred background, and a magically unblurrey (<-- this is not a word) Billie (she actually sat very very still).  Who knew I should have been shooting her with a manual focus lens all this time?

Susannah Maynard of Suzi Pix Photography in Cincinnati also worked on Blur this week.  To see her results, click here.
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