0911 Stepping Up

My guide dog tackles a steep ascent to a foot bridge.

1309 Dog in a Flower Bed

2908 Girlfriend

My dog has a surprise assignation in the city centre!

1808 Yappy Chappy

There's one little dog that won't put up with guide dogs near his narrow boat!

0607 Sensory Dog

A return visit to the sensory garden, which my guide dog found most interesting.i

2005 Vicious Little Dog

This little fella could pack one heck of a snarl and a growl, aimed, of course, at my guide dog. I'm only glad my guide dog didn't react. You can feel a bit vulnerable waiting on an island in the middle of the road, but my dog didn't cause me any problems.

1704 Dog Basking Among Flowers

My guide dog takes his ease among the bluebells (if bluebells they be) and dandelions

0504 My Guide Dog's Girlfriend

1003 Dog's Dinner

It was my guide dog's 4th birthday today, which occasionaed a special dinner of lamb's liver and rice, marked up with 4 carrot sticks in lieu of candles.

Many happy returns, Zym!

1801 Very long lead

When it's not safe to let my dog run free, I make a compormise by letting him run around on a very long flexi-lead. He quite likes it!

The light was terrible today, and so were some of the measures I had to take to make this visible.

016 Find the post-box

One of the great benefits of a guide dog is that the dog can find things that might escape you otherwise. Find the door, find a seat, find left (= bear left), find the bin, find the step..... and, even, find the post-box.

Why should anyone like me with a bit of sight need the dog to find a large, bright red object like a post-box? Well, I am red-green deficient, with a particular weakness at the red end of the specturm. I wouldn't worry in bright sunshine, but in dull conditions, the post-box could easily go unnoticed.

My dog knows to locate the post-box and sit by it until I tell him to move on. He learned this in one session, and, yes, he is pretty bright!

0101 Happy New Year, and welcome to Sensory Photography!

New Year means new ventures for many of us, and probably frustrated results down the road. As things stand, I wanted to create a space where I could put up a daily photo if that's feasible, and where I can write the occasional article. I won't undertake to put up a photo every day of the year, which is why I haven't signed up to a more formal 365 project.

Today wasn't a promising start, the weather being dull and very wet, but I have to start somewhere, and here is today's result.