This afternoon’s shoot with Mandy and Andrew and their kids must’ve been one of the fastest family shoots I’ve done at Delta Park.  Photoshoots at that park take time because there’s quite a distance to walk to the various spots I like using.  Today, however, we were chasing the weather and about 15 minutes into the session I heard the first bits of thunder and saw dark clouds and I knew we had to hurry.

It was fantastic timing too… just as I got in my car the first rain drops fell

It was a fun shoot and full of energy as you can see in the photos. It was a bit of a pity to rush because they brought their dogs with them! It’s not often that I get to include pets in the family photos…. and the kids LOVED it!! Kiara kept running up to Angie and wanting me to take photos of the two of them

I have been given a lens by Girl Guides to review, and I had some fun this afternoon trying it out on the huskies… cos I don’t exactly have wild animals in my backyard but sometimes the dogs come close.  It’s a Sigma 50-500mm f4.5-6.3 HSM lens… and oh my  it was very cool to play with a lens with that zoom length.  My lenses only go to 200mm!

I’m not going to show you all the photos, but I will show you my favourites… mostly taken at 500mm .  They were all taken handheld and at about 5pm so the light wasn’t completely bright.

373mm f6.3 1/60 ISO250

LOVE that I could get a shot of them playing like this… this is how they play with each other every day, and sometimes I wonder why there isn’t blood

373mm f6.3 1/125 ISO400

500mm f6.3 1/80 ISO400

500mm f6.3 1/160 ISO400

500mm f6.3 1/125 ISO400

The review will be written this week, I just want to take a few more photos tomorrow

My parents’ Jack Russel got a bit of attention this evening…

Her favourite toy is the hose pipe and nothing makes her happier than a game of tug of war

Remember those photos of Bradley that I posted a few days ago?  Well, here are the other images I took that afternoon… this time of the Huskies and the plants… all with the 50mm f1.4 at Walkhaven (the dog park in Honeydew where we take the huskies for long walks).

And yes, this image of Kitara looking rather dark grey instead of white and black is actually what she looked like… between the burnt veld and the black mud in the swamp the dogs were FILTHY by the end of the trip.