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Karma

August 27, 2007 – 12:02 am

Now for some much needed levity on this blog. :-)

I can’t think of anything that makes me happier right now than looking at darling Karma’s photos from our shoot at the gorgeous Olympic Sculpture Park on Seattle’s waterfront on Friday (my new favorite place for pet shoots). This summer hasn’t been exactly the warmest or sunniest on record but man did we luck out with the weather- yipee!

Warning: this post will make you want to run right out and get yourself a Dogue de Bordeaux puppy! Karma is one of the cutest puppies I have ever seen, and is an a close race with Daphny for the title of cutest puppy ever. I don’t have words to describe how cute she is so hopefully the pictures will speak for themselves.

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karma is a 4 1/2 month old purebred Dogue de Bordeaux, otherwise known as a French Mastiff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karma is already 45 pounds at just 4 1/2 months. She should grow to be about 150 pounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She has lots of puppy wrinkles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She has a fantastic, laid back, mellow temperament and is very lovey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She has already graduated from puppy kindergarten and knows all of her commands AND actually responds to them. How many 4 month old puppies do you know who can do that?

This is about the fastest she will move, which is to say- not very fast, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This shot totally cracks me up big time. She was sitting between my legs at the park and just being super curious and really expressive. If I had more time I would share the whole series…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just like I have learned with my other puppies I have photographed, being a model is hard work, and does tend to make one awfully tired. :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karma is the new baby sister to Kengo and Winston (l-r). Kengo is also a Dogue de Bordeaux. Winston is a pug. Their parents are getting married this December and they have asked me to come the night before and photograph their furbabies in their little wedding tuxes. I can’t wait! I love this family! :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed the pictures of Karma!

 

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Karma’s shoot is today!

August 24, 2007 – 5:19 pm

I am getting ready to go meet Karma and her mom at the Olympic Sculpture Park on Seattle’s waterfront.

I am soooo excited for our shoot because I have been wanting to shoot Karma for months. Here is the darling girl:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awwwwww… ;-)

How cute is she???

She is a close runner-up to Daphny for ‘cutest puppy ever’

(photo care of her parents)

She is the new baby sister to Kengo and Winston, who I photographed last year at Gasworks Park:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winston: pug, Kengo: Dogue de Bordeaux

Karma’s mom was trying to decide between doing a Decopaw art piece and a regular photo shoot and prints. Given that puppies grow so fast and we wouldn’t get a 2nd chance at a puppy shoot once she was grown, I recommended a photo shoot for Karma. That way if Karma’s parents want to do Decopaw art we will have the images of all of their kids to use anytime in the future.

I can’t wait to meet her- I love the Dogue de Bordeaux breed!

I’ll post pics of her next week. :-)

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Pete & Katie summertime shoot

August 21, 2007 – 8:56 pm

I had mentioned in my post yesterday that I love doing evening shoots in the summer. Case in point here. Pete and Katie’s shoot took place last week at Lincoln Park + Beach in West Seattle. We were graced with a glorious sunset and some fiery beach shots that made everything look like it was glowing. These are my favorite two shots. Katie is the dark brindle, Pete the medium chocolate brown with fiery fur and mouth full o’ stick.

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Oh Wow! Pentax P3

August 17, 2007 – 1:35 am

A few weeks ago while searching through my box of old film prints looking for a photo of a client’s dog (shot about 7 years ago during my hobbiest days), I stumbled upon some of the very first pet photos I ever took, of some of my favorite pets ever, like Lucy and Willa below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I started thinking about the camera those shots came from and wondered if I still had it somewhere. Well guess what! It was in my cabinet along with the rest of my assorted camera gear. Not where I keep my Canon EOS 5D, but in another place. I digress…

The camera this shot came from is a very basic, yet fine quality Pentax film camera, the P3 to be exact. It came out in 1985, which makes it 22 years old. Awesome!


I originally bought it for my first photography class I took in high school. I was 17. I did all of my own film developing and darkroom work at that time. I loved the photo-taking but hated the processing. I digress (again)…

So over the past few weeks I have been curious to see what kinds of shots I can take with the Pentax now that I have some experience under my belt.

I am sooo excited to try out the camera again! Tomorrow I will be making a trip to the Glazer’s film department to pick up rolls of film and a battery and make sure it doesn’t need to be repaired or cleaned. (Do film cameras need cleaning?). They are going to love my idiotic questions. ;-)

Side note: this will be my first time not going to the digital shop- Alan and Russ will probably wonder what Fergie and I are doing walking past, lol. I should tell them that I was always a digital imposter and see if they want to buy my 5D, ha ha ha, hee hee…

This Sunday I will be taking the lovely Ferguson somewhere, maybe Pioneer Square (seems perfect for gritty black and whites) to do a film shoot for her.

If all goes well and I am happy with the results I will add a film session to my photo session options on my new website I am building (just a few more weeks and it will be live!). This will satisfy the clients who love the look and feel of film photographs.

I anticipate having great results because I recall that for a few years before I started my business my ‘keeper’ shots were few and far between. Now that my skills have improved and I know how to get what I want from a camera I think I can coerce the Pentax to give me what I want. I used to shoot in fully manual with the Fuji, and shoot in aperture priority with the Canon, so I think it will be ok. The main difference is that the Pentax does not have AF, which means I will be manually focusing each shot. I think this will be ok too because now that I am used to using the viewfinder on the DSLR I think I can swing it. Wish me luck!

I did a little bit of digging just now to see what kinds of shots the P3 will take and stumbled upon this shot taken by David Viglianti, which literally had me saying “Oh Wow!” out loud. If this is this is an example of the kinds of shots the P3 will take, I am soooo psyched!!

Pentax P3, Pentax smc P-M 50mm f/1.7, Fujicolor Reala, copyright David Viglianti

GORGEOUS.

I will post my film shoot results here. :-)

P.S. Holy crap- I just turned it on and the battery still works! It’s a sign!

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