Cornelia's Blog (60)

This summer, so they told me, we were to go back to some of the beautiful places in Norway we've seen last year for extended hikes.  I was very much looking forward to this and eagerly helped cleaning their shoes and stretched out my paws because they needed waxing too.  …

For a long time I wanted to take Joy to Venice to have fun with the pigeons on Piazza San Marco - so finally, we managed - just follow the direction of her smiling face and then look upwards from the two shadows: 

But our Joy does not only 'laugh' a lot herself, she is also in the habit of bringing a smile on the face of perfect strangers. She would make a…

Already four years young today!! Our darling is as gorgeous as never before and fills our house with her 'Joy'ful character. Happy Birthday Joy!

(Click on the photo to see full sharpeness and colour - then click once more to see…

On the 22nd of February, we walked all around the Lake of Hallwil in Switzerland, beginning at the moated castle of Hallwil. The temperatures were still below zero that particular morning:

It is one of the very few lakes here, where…

This year snow came late but then, there was so much snow in 'Winter Wonderland', that Joy could even play on the balcony:

We rented the same apartment as two years ago and Joy remembered the place immediately running to and fro with a…

It is not always easy to take a portrait of our 'Lively Bundle of Fur' - here we are at a beach in Norway and Joy was in her explorer mood:

I was so busy, trying to get her to sit still for a moment - while she was busy, trying to dig through to Myra :-) - that I did not even notice, that my camera settings were still on 'sunny 16' or beautiful weather, from…

We had a very beautiful autumn this year - the cherry trees were intense in colour - most of these photos were taken on one afternoon in the middle of November - the one above and numbers ten and eleven some days later - the last one is dated Dezember. Enjoy:…

This is a tiny section of a much larger photo and here is another one (same photo) of a slobbering Joy:

I'm trying to tell her a bedtime story but she's only interested in the treat, I hold in my left hand:…

Finally, I'm able to tell you of the last part of our journey. It took her a very long time to stitch the above 360° panorama; yes, it's going all way round and it is made out of 20 upright photos! She stood on a rock and I just heard the clicks, while she was turning evenly on her heels (click on panorama to see in full saturation). Are you quite…

Ah, well - these photographers!! No further comment on that photo!! We just sometimes have different interests :-). We went from Sogne Fjord up into the mountains - this is just one of the glacier arms coming down from Josterdal's Breen (breen = glacier) - the pool was great to have a splash!!…

It was a long way up to the north and we took many ferries, but I was a very well behaved girl and was rewarded with a piece of steak from his plate in the 'Steak- and Fish House' on the ferry!

After visiting a friendly vet and only receiving…

... I dare to show you photos that are far too grainy and blured like the one above (find the deer anyway) or beyond help like the one below, which is overexposed and with too much flash and has bad colours.

The next one is even perfectly out of focus…

... we're back home again - Joy tells me to sort through the more than 3000 photos soon, for she has quite a story to tell - of adventurous hikes, of reindeers and lemmings and of beautiful beaches. The photo above was taken at 22.25 on the 19th of July; the sun later disappeared in the clouds on the horizon - so we did not see it at midnight but we call ourselves fortunate…

Today, exactly three years ago, I moved in with my new tin openers. We did not go home, but straight to the old house and garden in Ticino, South Switzerland. Some of you might stil remember this photo:

Or maybe the photo of me in the…

Last weekend we went to Ticino, south Switzerland (by car...) and I was indoors when I heard my husband give a shout and tell Joy to go into the house immediately! When I looked out of the window, I could see the neighbours bees had swarmed out (the bee keeper gave us an estimate of 200'000 bees!!!).…

I'm quite a bit behind schedule with posting these photos - so this blog will take you back into springtime :-)).

The trees that now groan under the far too early summer heat are here stil on the way to get green leaves.…

Unbelievable!! Our Joyful Bundle is three years old today!!

She's a happy girl most of the time and why shouldn't she be with spring being so beautiful this year!…

With the rain passed and Joy's paw on the mend, we continued with the next stage; here we are leaving the village of Büren and in the back you can see the rocks, we passed last time:

The famous cherry trees of this area (back right) are not yet in…

We are back to where we've been twice before and can now lock outside and enjoy the beautiful weather from the sofa. Since her small accident last Autumn (one nail got caught in the frame of our garden door; all healed properly), one part of Joy's paw seems to be stil more dry and prone to tears, especially in cold weather or when absorbed in play and turning on her…

No - this is not a blog about 'how to keep your dog from barking' :-)) - it's about photo editing software that might help save the moment ...

We all take photos of our dog and I'm quite sure, we've all been in a situation, where there was just not enough light and we couldn't or did not want to use the flash or the flash would not reach. Whatever the situation, you…