Monday, April 13, 2009
Putting together the annual Owned by Pugs calendar is one of my favorites parts of the site. However, there is something about going through thousands of photos and cropping and resizing hundreds of pictures for hours on end that makes me a little punchy. From the first year the calendar contest was held, I have always had myself a good laugh at the number of pictures I get that are mainly of a person’s foot with a little pug head in the corner or are more shoe than pug. Heck, once we even got a picture of just feet with no pug in sight. Now, please don’t take this the wrong way. I’m not knocking any of the pictures, I’m just saying they make me laugh. After you have been working on the computer for 12 hours straight and you keep flipping through pictures and the recurring theme is feet instead of pugs, well, it is quite funny.
So when I saw this shot of Benny, it immediately made me think of the calendar contest. Who knows, if I get giddy enough next year this might be the cover 
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Luna modeled this dress last Fall, but Sol wanted to see if purple was her color.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
This week’s flashback: Gone Fishing
Friday, April 10, 2009
I have been enjoying taking pictures lately and I have been getting lots of shots of the pugs. While some of the photos are good, I don’t really have a story to go with them so posting them on the blog is a bit of a challenge. I usually flip right by pictures of the pugs sleeping or lounging in the sun because even I have run out of unique things to say and don’t want to sound like a broken record. Having nothing to say about those photos, however, does not stop me from taking them.
My solution the last few days has been to upload a few of my favorite pictures to my Flickr account. Some of the photos have appeared in the Flickr badge in the sidebar. But ultimately, I want to share the photos with all of you in OBP land, so what I am going to try to do, is post just a picture of one of the pugs by the end of each day. These will be pictures that would have otherwise never made their way onto the blog and it will just be a photo. The one and only constraint that I am going to put on myself is that the picture must have been taken that day. I think the “must have been taken today” rule will make things more interesting and will add an almost real time feeling to the photo posts. It might not have happened that second, but you can be sure that it happened that day.
The downside of the “must have been taken today” rule is that if I don’t pick up my camera one day, there will be no photo post. So, at this point, I can’t promise there will be a photo posted each day. I am going to try this for a while and see how it turns out. Your feedback is always appreciated.
The only other thing I want to note is that all the other postings will continue as normal. I am just going to add the photo pics into the mix and see how things work out.
So, enough with the drawn out explanation. Here is today’s photo.
If you want to just see the photo of the day, I have created a special category called Daily Shots. I will be sticking each one of the photo only posts in this category for easy browsing.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Luna loves to sit under the glass table in the living room. All the pugs sit under it from time to time, but she seems to be the perfect height and can sit upright and not hit her head. It took her awhile to realize that should could not lick a crumb off the table from under the glass, but she is finally hip to the game now. This realization has made dinner a lot less entertaining
Have a great weekend everyone!
