3 Shots: Christmas in Maine

Christmas in Maine suggests barns, pine trees, lobster boats and snow, but while we had all three 4 of those things, my pictures seem to be mostly of dogs, family, and sunrise/sunset - in that order.  In fact, the hardest thing about choosing these three shots was not having them be all of dogs.  Without any further ado, here are the three shots:

Ok, so there's one lobster boat.  This wasn't actually the best picture I took that morning, but I already put the one of my sister and Argus (a dog) on Instagram, and as I said, I'm trying to minimize the dog photography.

This picture was taken on the same day as the first, but at sunset.  It was a brilliantly clear day - one of the clearest I've seen.  I know that because from the beach in Maine you can see a lighthouse about 8 miles off shore (It's called Boon Island, and it's a hellish rock).  On this day, you couldn't just see the spire, but the color of the bricks, as well as the rock it sits on, which is normally completely invisible.

These dogs are not fighting to the death.  They're playing, as they do for an hour or so each day, and normally they're moving too fast to see their horrific facial expressions (which is why my dad is smiling).  But I got a new camera for Christmas, an OMD EM-1, and it's fast enough to see this sort of thing.  Expect my cat photography game to rise to a whole new level.

Bonus picture:  Murphy and Aunt Minnie on Christmas morning.  You've really got to be a dog person to cut it in our family.