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I've been quite smitten by Heelers lately. While cattle dogs tend to be few and far between at sheepdog trials, I did manage to snap a few nice shots of some spectators at the 2024 National Sheep Dog Trial Championships (wow, that name is a real mouthful).

This is Martyn. His calm appearance is belied by his pricked ears, which reveal his true state of alertness. While I may be projecting a little, his expression says to me: 'Why is the guy I was playing with just moments ago, now sitting out of reach pointing a giant camera at me?'. While I'm sure he would rather we had kept playing, I feel he is resigned to the fact that sometimes humans are just weird.

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A Blue Heeler is lying in the red dirt, staring directly at the camera. He has large pricked ears and is wearing a harness. He is lying next to a timber picnic table, the corner of which can just be seen to the right of shot. The photo has a very shallow depth of field which brings the dogs face into sharp focus but leaves the background extremely soft, further emphasising the intensity of the dogs expression. A number of people on plastic chairs can just be made out in the distance, but due to the soft focus they mostly merge into the background.

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