52 Week Project | Silhouettes

This week’s 52 Week Project theme was silhouettes. Icey, my rottie, was this week’s model. She’s been aging gracefully in her 10 years, though her hearing has been departing her as of late. This means those head tilts she has been known for are replaced with direct stares of body language reading. Luckily, she has a plethora of hand signals under her belt and since she watches me its easy to direct her (unless she’s in the yard facing the fence, only then does the biggest bellowing get her attention, sometimes).

Loaded up for a car ride, our destination 5 minutes away and the light fading fast. The destination, a little used sand pit, loomed like faux mountains against the sky. We spooked up a whitetail who veered away from us into the brush lining some of the smaller sand “mountains”. In rounding one particularly “hairy” mountain (it was covered with tall stringy plants and grasses) when a snort was issued and 3 whitetail deer shot out of the brush! They gave me a solid start and Icey watched with interest as they bounded away. The light was continuing to die (clouds on the horizon, ugh!) so we made our way to a small rise that was less “hairy” than some of the others. Behind this little mound of dirt was a calm little pond that was playing host to a trio of sandhill cranes! They gave a couple of squawks and flew out of view.

The silhouette images started. Icey watched me most of the time, though I wasn’t able to use words to get her to look away from me for a profile shot. Luckily, there were lots of little rocks that I could toss past her to catch her attention.  The end results.

Visit Northeast PA Pet Photographer, I Got The Shot Photography to see how she captured silhouettes!