Grace and Tess

My final two customers at Dewey were Grace and Tess, two very beautiful brindle girls. Grace has a case of pannus, so many of the pictures I got of her shows her with her eyes closed. But it was possible to catch her when she wasn't squinting:

 

Tess, on the other hand, was very easy to get some good head shots:

 

The highlight of this session came when we were halfway through when Grace ran on the beach alone:

 

Note that I got the same facial expression on all three frames. That's fine by me -- that crazed look on a greyhound face always makes me smile. And note that her feet are in similar positions. I was shooting at about 3 frames/second, which can be a problem if you're photographing running greyhounds at certain speeds. If you catch them in an unattractive pose (like where both front feet are on the ground while both hind feet are in the air) then you can end up with a number of pictures with slight variations of that pose. So I should've upped my frame rate to its faster setting (6 or 7 frames/second, I think) before I had Grace run.

But I got lucky this time. She changed directions and speed enough to catch her in a different position:

 

And then just before she flew by me I caught her in mid-stride:

 

(I'm amazed I even caught this.) Having run past me she then stopped by her owner, who was standing behind me and to my left. Aimee and I were really impressed.

(Shot with the Nikon D300 using the 18-200mm zoom lens; shutter-priority mode; daylight white balance; top two pictures: ISO 200 at 1/250 second; running sequence: ISO 800 at 1/1250 second; shot in RAW.)