Framing is one of my favorite compositional tools in dog photography — and one of the hardest to get right. Here's how a goldador, a Great Dane, and a brewery dog in Greensboro all helped me figure it out.

Why continuing education has always been central to how I work as a pet photographer — and how joining Unleashed Education's Embark challenges pushed me to grow as an artist, not just a technician.

How a rescue Dalmatian named Rabun, a rainbow mural in Suwanee, and one accidental composition in a pile of debris became a top Embark challenge image — and the story of how I knew Rabun before his mom did.

One of the most useful tricks in pet photography — and how it led to a Top 10 Emerge image with Hana the German Shepherd on a cloudy morning in the North Georgia mountains.

I got up at 4am, drove 2.5 hours, and hiked an hour straight up — and the clouds were too low to see the mountain. Here's the story of the Embark Dogscape challenge and what I learned about photographing dogs in landscapes.

Perfect composition requires a perfectly placed dog. Here's how Atlanta dog photographer Courtney Bryson used the Embark centering challenge to create one of her most striking images — at dawn, at Oakland Cemetery, with a Cane Corso named Umbria.

Atlanta dog photographer Courtney Bryson competed in the Emerge Dog Photography Awards by Unleashed Education — 12 international challenges, a first-place win, and a Highly Commended Portfolio. Here's the full behind-the-scenes story.