Monthly Archives: August 2008

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Sammy the (very special) pug

August 25, 2008 – 1:57 pm

A quick peek at a very special little guy, whose story I will share with you soon.

Everyone, this is Sammy. He is a pug as you can see. A very happy boy. He has a lot he can teach us, as you will soon learn in an upcoming post.

What do you think of my new panoramic crops? I am totally digging them. I think this will be my new thing. :-)

I am taking the day off today to go spend it with my mom over in the town of Kirkland, WA where she lives. They have lots of malls over there in the burbs (with free parking even!) so we are going to do some shopping. Those who know me know I’m not a big shopper- something about malls (and the suburbs) just makes me tired and want to go home. I prefer the open air market type shopping experience a la paris or milan. But they do have some cool, fancy malls near where my mom lives and I still need to get a few things for my office so we’ll most likely hit some home stores. Speaking of my office, my 9,273 flagged emails will just have to wait till tomorrow for a reply. 

Hope y’all are having a great Monday August 25th! :-)

 

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Poor Kathy and Bailey!

August 24, 2008 – 2:24 pm

I had a shoot scheduled this afternoon for Kathy and her doggie daughter Bailey- a fluffy white maltese.

It is pouring rain in Seattle today so sadly we had to reschedule as we had the shoot scheduled to take place at a park in Bothell, WA. 

What is so sad about this is that this isn’t the first time we have had to reschedule.

We have been trying to book a ‘nice weather’ session since November of last year! I generally have very good luck with weather (Mother Nature loves me- usually), but we have had to reschedule not once, not twice, but THREE times now due to rain!!

We have had two other shoots booked this year, and figured we would wait until summer when the weather is nice. And what do we get on August 24th? Rain! Wahhhhh! I feel so sorry for Kathy and Bailey. sigh…

So I am posting this post to ask everyone to send some positive weather energy out there into the universe so that when we reschedule for this next (or following) week we have sunshine. Let’s try and help them out shall we? Poor Bailey and her mom have waited long enough. 

Thank you for your good wishes! :-)

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Teddy & Breyer sneak-peek

August 23, 2008 – 8:00 am

Teddy- yellow lab- mom’s dog. Breyer- chocolate lab- daughter’s dog.

update- I realized the sentence above may be confusing to some. The ‘mom’ is my client, the ‘daughter’ is HER daughter. Not MY mom and MY daughter. I have a mom- a great one- but no daughter. Or son. Just a dog. ;-)

Even though they live many many miles apart, these two boys are still best buddies. It seemed only fair that during the shoot if I took one type of shot of one boy I should duplicate it with the other. And being labs they were all fun and super easy to work with. I wanted to stay there shooting them all day.

We had an AWESOME shoot yesterday and I will post more images from our session next week. I can’t wait to share some of them with you! Wait till you see the black and white processing I did on Breyer’s images. My favorite black and whites to date. 

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Cowbelly goes ‘studio’ with Libby and Parker

August 22, 2008 – 8:00 am

My very first shoot in the new studio yesterday! Actually, my very first studio shoot ever. Not bad for a total newbie, eh?

Parker the resident studio pup. Libby my client’s dog.

I’ll post and write more on studio stuff soon. But here is a sneak preview to whet your whistle. :-)

Parker. Shop dog. Fergie’s new buddy and stealer of Starbucks breakfast sandwiches. (Parker, I was eating that). He was my model for 5 minutes before Libby showed up. Dogs with furry faces are hard to photograph- in the studio is no exception I learned. 

Libby. My client’s super sweet (and extremely obedient!) lab mix pooch. I couldn’t have had a better dog as a newbie studio shooter. Libby is awesome. 

This shoot was for a small commercial job with both Libby and her mom, but I couldn’t resist taking some of just her alone. How cute is she? And I worried I wouldn’t be able to get dogs to smile in the studio! Pas de problem. YAY!

I decided to take some behind the scenes shots to show y’all, since I know you have been wanting to see my new studio. It’s a pretty amazing space. But remember, it isn’t all mine! I share it with 4 other amazing photographers who I will tell you about soon. I swear have learned more from them in the past couple of months than I have in the last 5 years combined! Look how good Libby was while I took these shots. I said “stay” and she stayed. Yay. 

Check out the photographer’s-dream cyclorama wall. I would have used it but the floor is duuurty right now. (Hence the reason for my shoes sitting just off the paper, so that I could walk on it without leaving footprints). Actually, Rocky and I rolled on a coat of primer yesterday after my shoot and after we get a coat or two of paint down it will be looking much better. I have another studio shoot mid-week next week and I may just use the cyc wall if the floor is looking pretty. There is lots of experimenting to do!

Happy Friday! Hope you all have a lovely weekend! :-)

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