The Grand View at Grandview Off-Leash Dog Park #DogwoodWeek2 Traditional Landscape

1/16/2016

Typist: Bethany
When Tynan died, I realized that he and I had been on all kinds of amazing adventures together and I rarely ever took even one memorabilia photo. So when Wilhelm and I headed out on our first road trip together, my heart told me to do something to document it. But even I don't want to look at my boring photos of some place I visited. I was terrible at taking landscape photographs. The second day of our trip, as Wilhelm and I explored an interesting, random historic site we'd stopped at to stretch our legs, I had an epiphany; if Wilhelm is in the photo, he automatically makes it not boring! And so began my photographic journey of putting my pets in the foreground of landscapes that I wanted to remember in a picture.

Dogwood Photography Photo Challenge Week 2, Landscape: Traditional Landscape
"Shoot a beautiful landscape and share it with the world. Find a nice foreground and don't forget the sky."

Miniature Dachshund Wilhelm on a bench in the foreground, corgi Brychwyn and collie Huxley on benches in the background at dusk, Grandview Off-Leash Dog Park, SeaTac, Washington, Cascadia #DogwoodWeek2

Miniature dachshund Wilhelm, Cardigan Welsh Corgi Brychwyn and rough collie Huxley in front of the Cascade Mountain Range view at dusk, Grandview Off-Leash Dog Park, SeaTac, Washington, Cascadia #DogwoodWeek2

The grand view at dusk, Grandview Off-Leash Dog Park, SeaTac, Washington, Cascadia with miniature dachshund Wilhelm, Cardgian Welsh corgi Brychwyn and rough collie Huxley #DogwoodWeek2

I still take pretty bad, boring landscape photos. I can either never get the horizon straight, the depth depicted, the color like I want it, or the foreground interesting. Yes, even when the foreground is my adorable pets! Landscape photography reminds me of every other art form I have tried- painting, sculpting, drawing- it never turns out like I imagined it would. But I am much happier trying and failing at getting good landscape shots than having no tangible memory of where I have been and what I have seen. I do love to just enjoy the scenery yet it is nice to have a little souvenir once in a while. This weeks photo challenge shots are from Grandview Off-Leash Dog Park where the view is truly grand but I am not often able to enjoy it due to the chaos of dachshund, corgi, and collie off-leash shenanigans. Fortunately, Jason was with us when we went last weekend and we were there for this lovely Cascadian sunset. I know that I'm no Ansel Adams, but I do know I have cute dogs and a lot of fun!

This post is a part of the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. Please see more of our photo challenge posts here.

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Ellen Pilch link

1/16/2016 10:33:40 am

These are all great shots - and the dogs make it even prettier.

Bethany

1/16/2016 03:57:33 pm

Thanks, Ellen! Since I am obviously not the most confident landscape photographer, our compliment is very much appreciated. I think the dogs already know they are pretty but, just in case, I will pass your sentiment along!

Louisette link

1/16/2016 04:38:14 pm

Wonderfull, sky,greeting from Belgium

Bethany

1/17/2016 02:49:43 pm

Beautiful skies are always what inspire my landscape photos! Thank you.

Rebecca link

1/17/2016 05:30:05 am

Beautiful scenery! I'm with you on taking landscape pictures. Its hard!! Most of my the horizon is off kilter just a bit and I can never tell until I download them to the computer. BTW ... what challenge are you competing in (sorry if I missed it)? I'd like to try another challenge this year, we failed at the one last year ... LOL! But would like to do better this year especially since we got a nice camera to play with.

Bethany

1/17/2016 02:56:51 pm

This is the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. I added you to the Facebook Group (pending admin approval) so you can check it out. The nice thing about this challenge is although they discourage using old photos, you can go at your own pace; they're calling it a photographic journey. It's a little less pressure than having just having just seven days to add a link to a blog hop. There are still people doing week one and some people already doing week four! I hope you'll join in!

Rebecca link

1/17/2016 04:48:02 pm

Thank you so much for adding me to the group! I've already taken week 1 and week 3 (need to head outside tomorrow for week 2!). So needless to say we are going to give this a try and I love that you can go at your own pace and I can even start late!! Kudos to you for keeping up last year. We did good for about 2 months and then that was it ... LOL!! It'll be fun having another blog we're following doing the same challenge.

Dachshund Nola link

1/17/2016 05:23:37 pm

I love the first one!

Bethany

1/17/2016 05:54:08 pm

Thank you! That one is Jason's favorite too. Did you see the one I put on Facebook with a little space to the right on the tree? That one is my favorite!

Samantha at Our Traveling Blog link

1/23/2016 02:01:48 pm

Great post. Love the fact that you share those moments with your pups. Keep the memories coming!

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