Beautiful golden retriever girl + blue sky + pink cherry blossoms + green grass + sunshine = heavenly first shoot of spring. Enjoy. 
Can you see the treats flying through the air below? We had some good belly laughs watching poor Brinkley miss catching each and every one.
Thank you Nate, Bryan and Brinkley for a fantastic shoot! It’s days like that that I live for
I had the occasion recently to try out the Canon 50mm f/1.2 L series lens on Fergie during a little shoot in our yard. The lens produces significant soft bokeh, does great color renditions and, although a little tricky to use wide open at f/1.2 because of the super shallow DOF, this lens makes it REALLY easy to produce nice looking shots. These are all SOOC- no editing in Lightroom or Photoshop applied.
All: 50mm f/1.2 manual 100 ISO 1/5000 sec
Champ is a superadorable little tiny boxer mix. Just the right size to fit in your pocket, stick in your Cooper Mini or smuggle through airports. Ok, he might not be *that* small, but he sure is superadorable.
I like laying in front of the fire too Champ! Especially on nights like tonight, where it is below freezing in Seattle. Brrr..
I big time love this next shot. To me it speaks 100% boxer.
Champ has his very own yellow rain slicker. Hee hee.
Wanna see what it looks like on? Champ proves that you *can* have fun in the rain while wearing a plastic hoodie.
I have no words for this next one.
I nearly peed myself when I spied this graffiti covered wall in the alley behind their backyard. “Can we, can we? Pleeeze?” I asked his parents. “Sure!” came their reply. Game On!
If you have a super well-behaved dog that will sit and stay on command for big chunks of time in unfamiliar environments, and would like to have your pooch involved in my graffiti dogs project, please shoot me an email to info@cowbelly.com with a photo attached and we’ll see what we can set up!
Dog. Snuggle. Heaven.
Nicole thank you so much for having me out to photograph Champ! I look forward to getting your prints to you.
I have wanted to do a shoot at the UW campus for *years*, and finally had the opportunity to when a client said “I’m totally open to locations- you pick!”. I’ve had plenty of clients say this to me before, but always forgot about campus. I couldn’t have had a better day (a break in the rain) or a better subject. I love Maddie!
Here Maddie’s mom was playing hide-and-go-seek behind the pillars. Maddie is trying to figure out where she is. So. Cute.
I nearly deleted the shot on the right because it was so dark, but was really glad I didn’t after I had lightened it up. Lol,
FYI: Maddie is an older pitbull mix gal. Super sweet and fairly shy temperament. Total momma’s girl.
Poor girl is losing her vision, but loved playing fetch. This resulted in some tentativeness when the ball was falling out of the sky, but boy was she happy once she got it in her mouth.
The columns in Red Square.
This shoot totally took me back to my days as a student there. You can bet this won’t be the last shoot I do on campus. Next time when there aren’t so many students I’ll get more shots in front of the gorgeous buildings. It’s such a beautiful place to photograph.
Thanks so much Sarah and Maddie for a wonderful shoot!
