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Winter walks with Biscuit!

This past weekend the weather was gorgeous in the Baltimore – Washington, D.C. area.  The temperatures were in the 50s, very warm, considering it is January!  Doug and I wanted to take Biscuit out for some excursions since the weather was so nice outside, especially since during the winter months Biscuit cannot go to as many places with us due to the cooler weather.  We first tried taking Biscuit to a couple of local dog parks, as we thought it might be fun for Biscuit.  However, it did not go over well.  We learned that Biscuit cannot be swarmed by other dogs, that it is too much for him to take.  (Biscuit flashed his teeth when other dogs at the park got too close to him, in his space, letting us know that it was time to go!)  So, our plan B included taking Biscuit on a couple of long walks, and that worked much better!  Biscuit had a great time!

A few photographs from our walks this past weekend are shown below!  Enjoy!

Do you see our little family of three in shadow in the image above?

Why We Photograph

I really like this quote by Susan Sontag, author of On Photography, a book that I previously read.  “All photographs are memento mori.  To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.  Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

Creating photographs is very prevalent today with the easy access to cameras on telephones, ipads, and easy access to digital cameras, producing images instantly, for no monetary cost, with the ability to easily share images electronically.  Photography has very much changed since the invention of photography in the early 1800s, which is attributed to Nicephore Niepce.  As a result, people are most likely taking more photographs now, compared to earlier times, when it was more cumbersome, time intensive, and required a greater financial investment to take and produce photographs.

Whether called “photography as art” or documentation, the camera’s images are increasingly part of our shared experiences.  Our memory banks are filled with images that have a profound impact on us.  It is important to preserve not only highlights in our lives, but also the ordinary, fleeting moments.

I have been drawn to photography because it creates a record in time forever preserved (at least as long as the photograph is preserved and/or as long as the digital negative is preserved).

Photographs freeze a slice in time that we want to preserve.

Photographs help us remember various times in our lives and history.  See Dear Photograph for a neat perspective on photography – taking a picture of a picture, from the past, in the present.

Photographs allows one to create a body of art work.

Enjoy capturing and documenting what is important to you!

Biscuit after his Holiday travels!

Biscuit is recovering after all of his Holiday travels!  He slept the entire ride home!  He has been sleeping a lot at home as well.  However, Biscuit is beginning to get back into his routine as are we!

Here are a few photographs of a resting Biscuit!

Another Biscuit Sighting!

Below is a photograph of another Biscuit sighting from a blog follower!  

The photograph below features little Biscuit running on the beach in Nova Scotia appearing on Jones Soda Co. bottles!

Please contact me if you have spotted Biscuit on Jones Soda!