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This was rendered by a new test version of Midjourney (alpha version 6).  Like the previous version, it seems do deliver nice animal images.

This dog asleep in front of the Christmas Tree was rendered by Midjourney.  I like the addition of the red ornament on the left side of the image.

Gracie, beloved Yorkshire Terrier of my good friend, Jim, passed away.  In honour of Gracie, here is a rendition of a Yorkie done by Midjourney AI.

I'm fascinated how the Midjourney AI engine produces such detailed images of animals.  Friends were visiting last Saturday night and they mentioned the Corgi that they used to have.  I asked Midjourney to produce an image of a Corgi and here you have it.

I did not take this portrait of a King Charles spaniel.  I generated it (very simply) with an AI tool.  Some people call this 'Synthetic Photography'.  Many say that it is not photography in any sense.  And some feel that it is closer to computer programming than it is to photography.  In any case it is a rapidly evolving art form.  I started playing with this less than a day ago and am shocked at the power of the tool.  What is the product created?  I'm not sure what to call it, but it is impressive .... and it is only early days for this new technology!

Here is a man and his dog sitting lakeside and watching a rainstorm across the lake in Toronto.  This is one of my four photos (so far) that made it to CHCH TV for their viewer submissions during their weather segment of the evening news. 

 After posting 365 photos on this blog in 365 days, I took some time off to work on new material.  Here is a new shot of a lovely puppy taken while on a walk by Lake Ontario. The background blur is from portrait mode on the iPhone.

I don't photograph many house pets but this has to be my all-time favourite dog photo.  Here we have a photogenic "Timber" playing in a stream.  I entered this photo into the Grimsby Photo Group's recent assignment of the month with the theme "Wet and Wild".  This and other animals may be found in the "Nature" gallery at www.fourlens.ca.  

The assignment of the month from the Grimsby Photo Group was to take shots of "running".   For this photo I needed get down low to capture "Lily" retrieving her favourite ball. The snow being kicked up gives proof of the action in the shot. A higher resolution version of this photo may be seen in the Nature Gallery at fourlens.ca