I had a Christmas fantasy, that I bought Canon’s stellar new 1D Mark III. I got a little depressed reading the specs. It isn’t just that I can’t afford it now, it is that I will never be able to afford it. It’s $6,800. I guess this is growing up. I love my 5D and it works well for me, but that is the thing with photography. Always some camera to want.

I was standing by the barn looking at Red sitting there, waiting for me as he does. I would not normally have taken this photo because it seemed to static to me, and then it hit me that it would make a lovely photo because of all of the different and balanced elements – the shadow, the barn, the gate, the dog, all moving in a slope. A photo I would normally not have taken but when you look at it a different way, it tells a story and the composition is attractive. I have to expand my horizons in seeing what a photo it. It was taken with a Canon 70-200 mm, f/4.5, 1/320, ISO 11  at 105 mm. I like the photo more each time I look at it.