I always like photographing people and their pets. I actually call it Creatures and Their People. And I like learning, especially with a group of talented pet photographers and that's exactly what I got when I signed up for Kristie Lee's Pets and People Workshop in downtown Los Angeles. Well, not only DTLA but in portrait photographer extraordinaire Sue Bryce's studio. Sue was off doing her own workshop in Italy and Kristie ran the workshop from the temporarily vacated studio. What Sue left behind, though, besides a loft filled with gorgeous natural light, was her precious dog Cookie Bryce.If you're familiar with Sue Bryce, you're familiar Cookie, too. Cookie is Sue's black pug and she is ...
Saturday, December 19, 2015
We wrapped up our annual holiday shoot at Maxwell Dog in Studio City and one of our favorites -- okay, we have no favorites, they were all so cute -- was Winston, the Frenchie. Winston is hard of hearing. Deaf, really. So the way we get a dog's attention is with sound and in this case sound wasn't going to work. We had to resort to Plan B, which is why you should always have a Plan B. Plan Peanut Butter. Yep, we whipped out the peanut butter for dogs (you didn't know there was such a thing?) and we managed to get Winston's attention that way. Needless to say, we had a lot of Winston licking his chops. So that's when I decided to make this collage of his tongue poses. His mom Shelly loved it ...