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Photo Essay: Ashland Bassets (October 3, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Ashland Bassets, Hunting with Basset Hounds, Photo Essays on October 14, 2010
The photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
Hounds at work
The most thrilling shots are those showing the hounds at work, and ideally their prey, too. As the cubbing season draws to a close, that can mean tall autumn grasses and hidden action. But it also means the subtle autumn colors and the last of the flowers.
Basset hounds sometimes seem to understand that they have short legs and seek high ground for advantage.
This particular hound is a photographic favorite of mine. Before I knew her name (Jesse) I was calling her Autofocus because my camera found it so easy to focus on her. Usually a hound is small and lost in a large background scene like this, but her coloring is so vivid as she stands on the Great Meadow course jump that the scene works. Read the rest of this entry »