Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Maple's first Started pass in NAHRA

Maple has gotten 4 titles in her life: RN, RA, RE, and CD.  And how many title shots do I have of her?  A grand total of one, for her first title, the RN.  I think I have title shots for all of Alder's and Camas's titles. Maple is like that child with parents that took a million photos of their firstborn, and none of the later kids.  Maple always seemed to finish her titles on a Sunday when I was facing a long drive home and didn't want to corral the judge and photographer. 

Sunday, Maple got her first Started Retriever leg at the NAHRA trial.  (She got her first JH ribbon a month or two ago.  Junior Hunter is the AKC equivalent of SR in NAHRA.)  Our camera broke a few months ago, but I saw someone else taking a photo with a cell phone and (duh) thought "Hey, I have a cheapie, old cell phone, but it takes pictures!"  Well, sort of.  Ultra-low rez pics and I couldn't see the screen image in the sunshine.  Still, I decided I had to have a picture with one of the hunt test area ponds in the background.  I didn't get Maple's legs in the photo (because of that problem of not being able to see what I was shooting in the sunshine).  Her legs are pretty short, anyway. 

Here 'tis:


I'll tell you, one nice thing about hunt tests compared to obedience trials is that the background in hunt test photos is almost always more scenic than the background at an obedience trial.

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