Eska

[jacey]

I've posted very few photos of Eska because it's awfully difficult taking shots of a fast moving black dog. She always comes out looking like a blob or a blur and her facial features disappear into shadow. So imagine my delight when a friend took a casual snap last week and sent it today. Yay! A photo with definition.

Here she is. Eska, age 22 months. German Shepherd.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

She is beautiful!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

She's a lovely girl.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

What a sweet face she has. Have the same issue with my chocolate Neri. My LJ User pic is almost the only good shot I have of her.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

NIce dog!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

She's bouncy and full of fun, but very gentle and adores people. German Shepherds tend to mature late so at not-quite-two she's still a scatterbrained baby in a full-size body. We haven't broken her of the habit of jumping up at people yet - though she is getting better - slowly. She only does it because she loves everybody so much and wants to get closer. She'd love to lick your face and nibble your earlobes if you'd let her. (Needless to say we discourage that. For some reason a few people are nervous of a full grown GSD in their face! Can't think why.)

She loves to run and she's fast. Very fast. With a strong prey drive. She almost caught a cat in the back garden a couple of weeks ago, and I'm pretty sure she'd not have been gentle with that. Sadly the neighbourhood cats don't respect garden boundaries, though we are securely fenced so she can't get out into their gardens.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

'a few people are nervous of a full grown GSD in their face! Can't think why'

'Fraid I can- whilst I get on pretty well with dogs, German sheps are my one canine phobia. I was attacked by one at the age of three and left permanently scarred (and scared). If one gets near me I freak and flashback which is most unlike me. :o(

[teriegarrison.livejournal.com]

Good girl, Eska! Have a treat!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

She is beautiful.

I sympathise over the difficulty of photographing black animals. I had a black guinea pig as a child and thought the photos of her cream coloured mum show every detail, Blackie was always just a featureless black blob!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

What a pretty dog.