First of all, I want to remind everyone that TODAY is the LAST DAY to
enter my
FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST for FEBRUARY!
You still have until midnight TONIGHT, Eastern Standard Time
to submit to me your
"CRITTER CLOSEUPS"
photograph!
So, C'mon people...go into your archives
and send me your entry!
See yesterday's post for a link to the rules and to my email address!
Now, back to the Dogs!!!
If you haven't read Parts ONE or TWO yet of this series of
the U.P. 200 Dogsled RACE 2010, please go back down under this blogpost and get to it!
This is the final blogpost with race pictures for you to enjoy.
The local T.V. station was there to record the start of the race!:
Sorry for the yellow coloring in the photo below, it was dark with a lot of lights around, and I was in a hurry and didn't adjust the lighting!
Here are some dogs being hooked up to the sled right before starting up at the gate.
You can just see how excited they are!
They were yelping and jumping and soooo happy!:
Here is a sled ready with all the harnesses to hook up to the dogs. To the right of the sled you can see a line where handlers were getting ready to hook up another team of dogs:
At last!!!
This is the first team
getting to leave the starting gate. See all the flashes from other cameras taking their picture before they get to me?:
Here THEY COME!!!!:
I got a little excited and decided to do an action burst with my camera.
The crowd is a blur but the dogs are kind of in focus...it was hard for me to get them because I am short and was standing in front of a part of the fence that I couldn't reach over.
But the end effect was kind of neat:
Just look at this team running by with their pink booties!:
Another action shot!:
The blur of the Musher at the end of the line, on his sled.
He will be with his team from Friday night until sometime Sunday, when he reaches the FINISH LINE!:
I want to leave you with a strange shot I got by accident.
Again, I was playing with the burst mode of my camera, and the lighting was wrong....and the speed of the shutter was wrong...
But you know what?
It gave me a strange "ghost rider" effect of this Musher, which I ended up really liking!:
Don't be afraid to make mistakes with your camera!
I learned that sometimes, that is the most creative shot you might get!!
Hope you enjoyed this series about these brave Mushers and their beautiful dogsled teams.
I hope you get to see it in person sometime...
it really is an awesome experience!!!
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