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Photographing Dogs on Rocks – The Up Ups Dog Photography Challenge
One of the trickiest tricks a pet photographer must have up her sleeve is how to keep dogs that don’t know “stay” to stay for a photo. While there are a few tricks I use during nearly every session, one of my favorites is an Up Ups. Up Ups just means elevating the dog...
Dogs in Landscape Photography
For some photographers they fall in love with the art of photography and photograph everything - families, weddings, engagements, landscapes. And then they realize there’s one subject they just can’t get enough of and specialize. For me, photography has always been...
Composition in Dog Photography
Composition in photography is how elements in the image are arranged. In this week’s Unleashed Embark challenge dog photographers across the world were charged with creating an image using one of the simplest rules of composition - centering. And while a centered...
A New Dog Photography Challenge – For A New Year!
The next round of Unleashed Challenges are called Emerge and there are 12 brand new challenges and I’m looking for the right dogs to participate.Are you ready for a new set of dog photography challenges?2022's Embark Dog Photography Challenges In 2022 I set out on a...
2022 Pet Superlatives
It’s that time! While we’re all recovering from the Holidays and planning our New Year’s Resolutions - let’s take a look back at last year with some of the best, biggest, and funniest pet photos of the year in the 2022 Pet Superlatives! Floofiest Dog of the Year...
Give Me Shelter – Fostering Rescue Dogs
Many of us know the line: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, ” as a line from the Statue of Liberty. It’s actually part of a larger poem written by Emma Lazarus that adorns a plaque on the pedestal of the statue, and while...
A Love Letter to All the Dogs I’ve Loved Before
I was nearly held back in Kindergarten to repeat the year. Not because I was behind academically, but because I found it hard to relate to the other kids in my class. I have an August birthday, so as one of the youngest kids in my class they hoped an extra year would...
Leading Lines with Abe Froman the Frenchie
There is a long list of rules in photography. It’s one of the reasons I love it - the clarity of having a right answer derived from the equation of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed makes my analytical tendencies very happy. Of course, just having the right exposure...
Should You Add A Professional Dog Trainer to Your Photography Session?
Have you ever wished you could have a professional dog trainer help with your dog’s photography session? Well, now you can! I’ve recently teamed up with the incredible group of trainers at Canine Country Academy and now you can add on a professional dog trainer to...
Walking the Dog
Walking the dog is one of those great equalizers. Most everyone who has owned a dog has experienced taking their dog for a walk at some time. From taking my own dogs for walks, to photographing you walking together with your dog, to working with Atlanta dog walkers -...
What Saying Goodbye to 100 Dogs Taught Me About the Rainbow Bridge
Nikki was my first best friend. I remember her only through the countless photos my Nanny took of us throughout my early childhood. Nikki was part of an oops litter of puppies when Prissy, my mom’s Siberian Husky, had a dalliance with the neighbor’s Golden Retriever....
My Favorite Furry Faces – Photographing Dogs from Down Low
I love all furry faces, but there are a few that are my favorites. When I began the Embark Challenges I knew I also wanted to use my own dogs from some of the challenges. Just as the cobbler’s children have no shoes - the pet photographer’s dogs have no photos. I...
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