Category Archives: Personal Projects

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Kosmo & new baby sister Sophie (Graffiti Dogs Project)

January 14, 2010 – 11:06 pm

I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph Kosmo and his new baby sister Sophie (the cutest St Bernard puppy you have ever seen) last month for my graffiti dogs project, and feel so lucky that I got to both: a) do something I love, combining three of my favorite things: dogs, graffiti and photography, and b) work with such lovely clients and pets again (Thank you Josh and Ashley!). I look forward to many more photography projects with these kids again, and hope you enjoy their images.

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This is funny. Sophie wanted Kosmo’s stick *so. bad.*. I decided to show you the whole sequence here.

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Uh, oh, I think someone’s in trouble. I think someone is not supposed to chewing on sticks.

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LOL, I busted a gut at this shot. Look at the look on Kosmo’s face!

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You like these? Check out the shots of Sophie on the homepage of cowbelly.com.

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If tongue length gives any indication of overall size, this girl’s gonna be BIG.

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awww, and a heart for the sweet little girl.

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hope y’all are having a great week and are drier than we are in Seattle! Rain rain go away, I’m ready for spring!!

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Fergie Discovery Park shoot sneak-peek

December 12, 2009 – 5:43 pm

I did a shoot this week for my girl for the ongoing personal ‘Fergie Series’ in some of the most incredible light I’ve ever worked in. This next post will be titled ‘Fergie Plays’, and I warn you, it will be very long and overflowing with images. Here is a sneak-peek to whet your whistle for now. :-)

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Sophie- Graffiti Dogs Project sneak-peek

December 12, 2009 – 5:37 pm

Shoot #4 of my Graffiti Dogs Project. World meet Sophie, the 3 month-old St. Bernard puppy. Sophie meet world. (More of her to come!)

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Fergie at home 50mm 1.8

February 2, 2009 – 1:56 am

Every busy pet photographer I network with wishes they had more time to photograph their own furry family members. It’s difficult to take time away from a busy schedule, business needs and client needs to ‘take work home with you’. I am trying however to make it a point to take regular photographs of my dearheart, like these shots I took recently experimenting with my flash and different lenses at night.

These were taken with my cheapo 50mm 1.8 lens, and Canon 580 EXII flash. Off-camera with the Canon off-shoe cord and Gary Fong Lightsphere II bounced off the ceiling. Flash exposure compensation was used to set the brightness of the flash. All auto settings on the flash because they do a pretty darn good job. 50mm f/1.8, 500 ISO, 1/125 sec. Oh, and they were all taken with shutter priority. Auto white balance which I had to tweak a little bit in LR2 as it was too warm. A new fave on the right.

These were taken with the 24-70mm 2.8 L, at f/2.8, 500 ISO. Left shot: 48mm, 1/125 sec; right shot: 70mm, 1/200 sec. Note the before and after drool, induced by Fergie’s favorite: pepperidge farm parmesan goldfish crackers.

Fergie eating her Kong on her bed. Used the 70-200mm f/4 IS L telephoto lens for this one. 176mm, f/4.0, 1/200 sec.

These were also taken with the 70-200mm lens. She was begging me to throw her green rubber ball in these shots. I think she’s a little irritated with me in the one on the right, lol. Both shots: 200mm, f/4.0, 1/200 sec.

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Graffiti dogs project

September 30, 2008 – 11:38 pm

A little personal project I have been working on, inspired early this year by this post on Rebecca Lansdowne (Art Paw)’s blog. Unlike my normally verbose posts, I will let the images here speak for themselves. (ok, and give you a little info in between).

BTW: my new favorite photo I have ever taken (yes, I said ever) is below. Can you guess which one it is?

That’s Fergie’s tail on the left. “Furr-gee-ee!”

I promise you this shot wasn’t staged (nor cropped). I was just capturing what I was seeing. 

Fergie & Jada.

Words cannot express how much I love dogs and graffiti. The combination of both here has me seriously swooning. 

Charlie, Seymour. (AKA Chaos and Trouble)

For my pet photographer friends, we were using a reflector under Charlie and Seymour to get some light underneath them. 

Jada does cross-eyed so well. 

(ok, I can’t contain myself, I will give you a hint on my favorite shot ever taken- I always save the best for last). Can you say WALL-SIZED canvas? WHOOPEE!! I LOVE YOU FERGIE!! :-)

 

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