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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 12, 2014, 08:52:56 pm

Title: What?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 12, 2014, 08:52:56 pm: Seen in western Massachusetts a month or so ago.
Explanation (context) will appear in a few days. ;)
Title: Re: What?
Post by: sdwilsonsct on June 12, 2014, 08:58:26 pm: Dog transport. Back of a pickup truck?
Title: Re: What?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 13, 2014, 12:19:01 am: Quote from: sdwilsonsct on June 12, 2014, 08:58:26 pm
Dog transport. Back of a pickup truck?
Good guess, Scott. Was that you driving the truck? ;)

Here's a bit of context. They seem to be sled dogs, and that's their sled on top of the truck.
Title: Re: What?
Post by: sdwilsonsct on June 13, 2014, 10:26:30 am: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 13, 2014, 12:19:01 am
Was that you driving the truck?

I wish! Serious fun: gliding silently, swiftly through an evening forest, tangerine sky on one side, pale moon on the other, frost on the trees sparkling in the light of my headlamp.
Title: Re: What?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 13, 2014, 10:51:26 am: That doesn't look at all like my back yard.

Are sled dogs really silent while working? I've never seen any first hand (except in the truck), but I have mental images from countless novels and reports of Iditarods.
Title: Re: What?
Post by: sdwilsonsct on June 13, 2014, 11:06:29 am: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 13, 2014, 10:51:26 am
Are sled dogs really silent while working?

Yes, just paws on snow.

In stark contrast is the harnessing process, during which there is a lot of ear-splitting barking, lunging, fighting, whining, coprophagy and other kinds of noisy dog business that gets done when there are lots of other dogs to do dog business with.
Title: Re: What?
Post by: francois on June 13, 2014, 11:19:47 am: Could have been a canine version of the famous Guillotine, the one used to behead Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette!