Synchronized Whippet Running

I noticed their synchronized whippet running from the beginning. It was shortly after Luke became a part of our family. I’d throw a toy and watch him and Milo run and play together with it. They moved the same for both short and long moments. One day I finally caught it on camera:

See how their front paws are the same? It’s so cool (or at least I think so). Anyway, as time went by I kept trying to capture it. Photographing whippets running is difficult. They can run up to 35 mph. I don’t know if they get that fast in my backyard though. It’s a good sized yard yet not a long wide open field. Nevertheless, they are still very fast. It took learning a new setting on my camera to get photos that weren’t blurry.

Then one day I got lucky. Really lucky. I started taking photos with the speed setting and holding down the shutter release. The other difficult factor was keeping them in the photo because of how fast they run. I downloaded a batch of photos and saw this one:

Synchronized whippet running by a garage door

Wow! How awesome to capture these two and their synchronized whippet running.

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I got a new zoom lens for my Nikon camera. It’s much better for capturing the antics of these two whippets and their older brother. One day I got four more photos synchronized fun. First with feet open stride:

Synchronized whippet running by a green fence

Then with feet closed stride:

Synchronized whippet running with closed stride

Then from behind. Look at how their tails are curled toward each other. How cute!

Synchronized whippet running with curled tails

Here they are with a little front paw high step while playing with a monkey toy:

Synchronized whippet running with green dog toy

On another day, I took this photo of them:

My hounds make me smile every day. Taking photos has never been so much fun. I can’t wait to get more photos of these two and their synchronized whippet running.

Update to add more photos and this video. Includes them actually running! I finally got a good video of them. YAY!