If anyone thought that dog walks are the ideal opportunity for combining some photography with family time, they're wrong!
Inevitably there are complaints from my menfolk (who have longer legs and walk faster anyway) that I am dawdling as I stop to take a photograph of the spellbinding view or yet another withered seed head.
And I complain that they are spoiling my pictures by walking into the frame just as I'm about to press the shutter.
So, as a compromise I set my white balance to auto, choose an IS0 and aperture which will hopefully cover all eventualities, and compose images on the hoof.
There's no time for tripods or worrying about the rule of thirds or golden triangles - it's point and shoot and hope for the best. Then I run to catch up with them, with Fudge stopping to see what's keeping me.