The Adventures of Miss Luna

One of my favourite things to do these days is to hang out with Rocky while Mum rides him! Most of the time, we go ‘out the back’ to this huge paddock with cows, where we get to run really fast. Running with Rocky really fun, horses are very fast! Sometimes though, we just muck around in the arena place instead. Jumping is my favourite thing to do – I can do a whole horsey jump course – even better than Rocky can!

If Mum is just riding around though, I like to trot around with them and supervise. This time Mum was riding Rocky ‘bareback’ which means without a saddle contraption thing! People are always telling Mum that she should put a saddle on me for some reason. I’m glad she doesn’t. I think Rocky is happier without a saddle too. It just makes it a bit harder for Mum though, so she doesn’t go very fast for very long. He’s a bit bony, she says!

I’m usually pretty happy just following them around. I try not to get in the way, but sometimes there is something awesome that needs sniffing and I stop in front of them, but Mum just yells ‘QUICK!’ and I get outa the way pretty fast!

The best part is when we get to do jumping! I love jumping. I like showing Rocky how it’s done.

Unfortunately he hasn’t quite got the knack of hanging his tongue out the side like I do, which is an integral part of jumping. And everything, really. But he does try, and that’s the main thing.

One thing that Rocky is getting pretty good at is modelling. Mum has taught him to stand pretty and put his head down like this to make him look handsome. Being a budding professional model myself, I like to stand by and give a few tips here and there.

He still doesn’t get the importance of the tongue thing, but we’re working on it.

You guys probably all know that I’m not the only doggy that Mum takes photos of – she is a special doggy photographer and often takes photos of other doggies for their owners! Anyways, she had a shoot lined up with a lady and her Labrador dog for a really early morning session on the beach – my beach – the Spit. Mum told me that she wanted to ‘test the light’ (whatever that means) and use me as the ‘test subject’ so off we went to the beach one morning, really super early! Before the sun even got up!

When we got there, it was getting light but the moon was still up and the sky was a really deep blue. Mum said that it was perfect, because my full proper name is ‘Hildydane Luna Blue’ – which kind of means blue moon!

There were a few clouds on the horizon but when the sun finally came up above them, it was really pretty.

There was no one else there to start with, so we had the whole beach to ourselves!

Mum says that the light is really nice at this time in the morning. You can play around with it and take photos like the one above, where I am all dark, or you can do something different with the camera and take photos where I look normal, and everything else is really bright! This photo was taken about the same time as the one above, look at the difference! Mum says it’s to do with something called ‘exposure’ – but hey, that’s getting just a little too complicated for a doggy like me!

We moved up into the dunes for some more photos, it was time for me to get to work modelling! That’s how I earn my breakfast, apparently.

I like being high up in the dunes, cos you can look down on the beach and see everything that’s going on.

We saw a couple of surfers arrive.

Mum was really loving the light!

Finally I got to have a lie down and relax and look over my domain.

If you want to see the results of the shoot that Mum did with the lady and her Labrador, check them out on her blog!