Monthly Archives: May 2010

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Bootsy AKA Miss Sparkling Personality

Bootsy’s shoot took place recently on one of the (very) rare beautiful weekend days we’ve had. Those who have followed me this year know the weather in Seattle has been awful, and it’s been really challenging for me to do shoots because of rain, wind, cold, and generally miserable weather. But not during this shoot! It was hot, sunny, and glorious!! Yippee!

Everyone meet Bootsy. She’s a fun, playful, ‘full of personality’ bearded collie/poodle mix.

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Bootsy was wearing her leash in all of these photos, which I removed in post as I always do. In this case, Photoshop CS5 helped me with the shot on the right below, with it’s awesome new content aware feature. While it wasn’t perfect, it did provide a great starting place, which I finished off with the clone tool. For a quickie job done on my laptop without my Wacom pen, it did a pretty good job. Looking forward to giving the feature a ‘real’ run for it’s money with my iMac + Wacom tablet.

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I love her tongue hanging out the side of her mouth. She is so cute.

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There was this cool paved path covered in sand that we got to walk on right next to the beach. There were tons of dogs walking there that day. I took some shots of Bootsy’s owners walking on the path, and there were no fewer than 3 dogs with 3 different owners walking right behind them in just a short distance. When the sun comes out in Seattle, so do the people and their dogs!

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Funny dog + pink ice cream cone = cuteness. Nom….

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Nom….

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NOM.

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Thanks so much Deb and John! I had a blast at our shoot and I can’t wait to see Bootsy’s again at our ordering session! :-)

Sienna- from the archives

Another pretty kitty. I don’t recall what this cat’s breed is, can someone remind me? They are so beautiful. Look at the plush fur. Don’t you just want to run your fingers through it? I’d actually like to grab her cheeks and nibble her nose gently. But that would probably go down wrong.

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Butter- from the archives

I’m missing the kitty shoots and willing them to come my way. Look at the gorgeous coloring on this sweet girl. I wish I had a wonky whisker like that.

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new Workshops website

Frustrated by my barely functional picaholic flash website, this week on the spur of the moment I built a new and improved HTML website for my workshops site. Fast loading, bug-free, *much* more user-friendly and pretty to look at. No more flash for this kid- it’s HTML all the way, and I couldn’t be happier! I still need to add a few links and do a few tweaks, but it should be ‘public-ready’. Check it out and let me know if you find any glaring issues. :-)

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You’ll notice it looks a lot like my regular Cowbelly Pet Photography website. That’s because it was built on the same template that I designed a couple of years ago. I updated all of the menu items, and switched out the text and images, but the skeleton is the same.

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