I had the day off so my daughter and I too Exit 22 (Corbet) to get some 'Iced Waterfall Pictures.'
It was cold but worth it. I took "Skor" along with us. here are a few shots...

I guess I am lucky to have a Big enough Truck to take 6 dogs and 2 humans to a fun day at the beach. Venita and I decided to take a trip to look at future camp-sites big enough for the dogs with room for them to romp on the beach. We headed to Nehalem Bay State Park...we stopped and played on the Beach..the dogs had a Blast. Here are a few pictures...

A group Shot


Yippeee Tedo and Skor


Venture...the Young one of the pack


Venita and the crew


Keeper


My pack


Another crew shot with Venita


Tedo


Harvey and Skor (back lit)

A few evening pictures at the Forest Grove Practice Barn...

Yesterday I asked my Husband to take me on a photo Search for Old Houses in Central Oregon..He has done some Bird Hunting and was aware of a few houses, so off we went. We drove 350 miles round trip with all 3 dogs stopping many times for pictures, and fun. Some of my facebook friends have seen a few of the wonderful shots I had the opportunity to get...The weather was overcast which also was welcomed for the (old time effect. I will post a few and add the link if you would like to browse through my Website Album....

http://www.freezeactionphotos.com/History/Old-houses-Central-Oregon/10404875_DrkaS

How I cleared the jump I will never know. I got the "Q" since I did not touch the jump or knock the bar....

I competed with Skor at the ASCA trial last week-end. There were 3 of his litter mates, 2 brothers from another litter and 2 puppies from his half sister. What fun to take pictures of them and do a little socializing. His breeder also attended and gave us some basic ear trimming lessons. I do Skor's and was happy to say she thought I did a pretty good job for someone with no training. Skor did very well. He completed his Novice Standard, Novice Gamblers, and Novice and Open Jumpers. He is such a good boy. I also have a very funny video that I will post this week-end...Hint..Who says a 50 something women can not jump 20"...It is very funny.

Here are some of the pictures I took

Skor


Skor



Skor's Brother Mika


Skor's Sister Sunny


Woodrow (He has Cancer, at only 7 yrs old)


Lucy, A cousin


Skor


Cindy Hardy's Finn


I love this shot



Agility Shot

I took the Boys to the Forest Grove wetlands for a long walk today. The weather was perfect and I wanted to see what the wetlands had to offer. Next time I will bring the telephoto lens but I took some good pictures of the dogs...




Look at Tedo's face...what a ham he is


Harvey like to pose


Skor all grown up at 17 months


Almost lost the Teed in the Grass


Reflection

I entered Skor in the Wilsonville CPE trial this Saturday and I was very happy with his performance at level 2. His contacts were great,(I released him early a couple of times) my bad, but he hit every one. His start line was perfect and he knocked only one bar in Jackpot so we still Q'd. 5 runs 3 1st's and 2 2nd's. Here is the Video of the 3 runs I had someone tape for me.

I took Skor out to do a run in the fun match. He is now 15 months old and will have his first trial (CPE) this month. I have to say he ran like a dream. I have trained a stop on the contacts and he was 100%. He did miss the up contact on the A-Frame so a bar on the ground quickly took care of that issue. We will have to work more on the ups. I am proud of my Blue Boy. Second on the Agenda was to get some pictures of Marylynn new Mini-Aussie Roper. He is a cute little guy and boy he can move. Barb was there with Meri so I got some pictures for her as well..I have to say Emma was looking Great!! She ran Great and the swimming pool is working wonders as she has noticeably lost weight. Here are some pictures. I had to put one in of Tedo and Skor....

Roper


I can go fast


Meri and Roper


Meri


Meri with the fluff ball


Barb and Meri


Roper





Roper and Meri


Mayzie


Tedo


Skor

I went over to check out the Carlton USDAA Trial to check out the site and take pictures. It was hot but I had fun taking pictures. The one of Kathy and her dog is so funny. What a nice trial it was. Everyone looked like they were having fun, even in the heat. Great job Karla and Bonnie for putting the trial together.

KATHY


Alphie


The Nub


Spencer


Not sure what this dogs name is


This might be Tess





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TRU



Paula's new dog


Razor


Rueben



More on my website www.smugmug.com (freezeaction)

We took my sister (from Texas) to the Oregon Coast (Gerhart) and played with the dogs. Tedo was obsessive about the Frisbee and spent his day keeping it away from all dogs and people. I took some action high flying shots. You can see that "Skor" my Blue Merle Aussie should have no problems jumping in Agility. He is now 15 months old.. Time sure passes quickly.

Skor with my Nephew Preston


Perfect timing


Soaring Tedo


I love this shot....


Tedo the wanna be Frisbee dog


What an athlete Tedo is:


Who is going to get the ball?


My Boy Tedo "Gotta love em"


Did Soar, I mean "Skor" just Fly By?


Harvey still has it...


This is the first time Tedo actually ever caught a hard Frisbee.

Reminds me of my younger years :)

I was playing around with shutter speed and took a few pictures with "The TEED" as my model.





I do take other pictures as well...

Wow...I finally finished downloading around 2000 pictures onto my smugmug website that I took for the Northwest Regionals. I am not sure if I will challenge myself to do that next year. It was a ton of work and I will be running Skor and Tedo both...Here are a few of my Favorite pictures along with my website if you would like to take a look. http://freezeaction.smugmug.com/

TREK


KIA


Trick

















MY Favorite










FREEZEACTION

Well I am the great State of Tennessee visiting my son and his family. We went to the Zoo in Memphis and I took some great pictures. The Zoo is much nicer than Oregon Zoo. You can get closer to the animals...

freezeaction.smugmug.com/gallery/8464897_mSxfK#556462788_XKa4i

I have now started making collages of Agility Photos that I have taken pictures at. I have some made from the May Red Hot Rover Trial at the Argus ranch. I really want to start offering other stuff besides the normal
obstinate pictures. At Regionals I want to work on Jumping pictures from the front and side from take off to landing. This will give information that may be useful. I also want to capture personality and drive. Please let me know what you think.

I also have collages from the Fleet Feet indoor trial. These are inside and should not be blown up larger than 11x17 but are best at 8x10 due to the quality....Those of you that were at these trails and would like a collage please email me with the file #. I can incorporate pictures from both trials in one collage. Collages are only available on line unless I print a few to bring to the Regionals in 8x10 size. Pictures taken Outside can be blown up to any size you would like. They would also look nice on Rolled Canvas that is offered. Opinions gladly entertained (happily)

Cheri Freezeaction Photos

Well I wanted more pictures but the Storm hit our area only briefly. It did blow (Crap) everywhere so I had to wear glasses to go outside. Here are a few picture that I took. I wanted lightning but that did not happen here. The sunset was after the storm moved through.

Clouds moving in:








This tree was bent in half




















Sunset after the Storm

I did my first child photo shoot today in an outside natural setting. Wow, I did not realize how hard it is to take pictures of a 3 yr. old. My grandson is 2 but he is used to me taking pictures of him. Anyway the pictures turned out great and the recipient was very happy. I also took some flower shots in between child energy releases...

Skor and his litter mates are now a year old. A group of us decided to meet at Champeog Park in Aurora. What a good time the pups had playing together. We also had a few dogs show up from Holly and Ketchem's first 2 litters. We had the Aussie Posse going on. I counted 13 Aussies, (3) were not related but joined in the fun anyway. Here are a few pictures.....

Skor and Mika


Skor and his sister


Group Play


Mia, Skor and Mika


Bad Hair Day


Where is everybody?


Big Sister


Group Shot





Stretched out

As I said in a previous post Skor did very well for a 12 month old puppy running in Pre-Novice Agility. It was a very smooth course and I was very proud of him. He went around a few jumps but one was coming out of the accelerator tube and I could not get there before he did. His contacts were awesome, solid start line stay, and even though I am only jumping him 12" he did not drop any bars.