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I am a little late with this post as the road trip to Cape Race was back in early September!! It was supposed to be a trip to get some pictures of the lighthouse, but the thick fog had a say in that…

Cape Race in the fog

So with only a dozen photos taken that day, I did not have much to choose from to post. But I did manage to take 1 picture I liked. This fella greeted us at the lighthouse, and even peed on Randy’s car!!

Dog at Cape Race

I didn’t really have puppy fever until I got to spend some camera time with Aqua’s Luna. She is an awesome puppy, 11 weeks old, the same age as Angus was when I first picked him up. Sadly I cannot possibly handle another puppy right now so I will have to regulate myself to just stalking Newf puppies with my camera!!

So here is Luna.

This all started when I tried downloading pics of Canadian money for a math lesson with my students.  After a while of not being able to get clear and true pics I decidied to do it myself.  I tried but my lense just couldn’t get detailed enough for my liking.  Then I went back to surfing the web again and saw Kim’s butterflies.  They are awesome so I asked about my money situation.  She said she uses a macro1:2.8 and offered to loan it to me.  So I have been playing with it all weekend.  Yes, I got my money shots LOL!  But also some other interesting perspectives.  The first one is of my dog Ripley.

I thought I could use the rest as a game of guess what with my students?  For more check out my gallery.

Nope, not mine. He is tight lipped, his flews are not big enough to hold copious amounts of drool, at least he doesn’t think so.

Here he is posing for the camera, completely oblivious to the thick, slimy “flooger” strung between his eyes.

That’s right, nothing to see here, no floogers to be found anywhere. After all Angus doesn’t drool.

Ok, he drools a little… when he is sleeping!! Most other times he can be found with perfectly symmetrical floogers hanging in wait for anyone to get within range so he can deposit them on your clothes!

Outside in the snow he can fling those suckers the length of the yard when he shakes his head. I’ve been hit by many flying slingers, but the worse are the half frozen ones, we’ll just call those floogcicles. I have no pictures of them as I fear for the camera lens getting in the way of the line of fire and shattering in my hands.

So in closing, if you see a Newfoundland Dog breeder advertising the “non-drooling” variety run very quickly the other way! Drool happens….. and finds its way into and onto everything, especially clean clothes!!

The next question I will address is “Do Newfoundland dogs shed?”. I will try to explain that natural phenomenon another time.

An image of Angus that was taken in Flatrock. Angus was extremely underexposed in this image and I was going to just delete it, but I liked the pose so I tried to save it. Here is the final image, I think it came out pretty good.

I actually have 2 dogs, 1 is so small that I rarely manage to get a picture of her, and to get her and Angus together is even harder to do. Here they are in the yard, Angus and Akida. I should call this one “snack time”.

enjoying the snow.

Here are a few of my favorites taken this year.

My one and only iceberg picture… though the iceberg is really far away.

Dangerous coastline, please stay on the trail… I guess this guy didn’t care!

Waiting for the caplin to roll in. It was a long wait, they didn’t roll that evening.

Fishing for Cod off the rocks.

A friends German Shepherd,

and my favorite, the main graphic used on newfieweb.com. Angus surveying Flatrock from out by the point.

The subject of 80% of the pictures I take. Through this blog I am trying to change that and will be attempting to take more pictures of other things. Expect to see some Angus pictures from time to time, but he has his own place on the web, where you can truly appreciate my obsession with him :). So here he is, my 2 year old Newfoundland Dog, Angus.

OK. Finially got this thing working…. not bad for a computer programmer. haha

Anyway, here are some shots I got from the Irish Loop Trip today. Everything From sunrises to chasing a heard of Caribou!
And on the end of the journey that goat was loving the 10mm!
-Mike