Amanda reminds me I've known her for 12 years. That's a long time! I first met her when I was taking a lighting class and she was the makeup artist hired for the workshop. I liked her makeup and began hiring her for headshot shoots. When I first began doing pet photography, she and her wife Kate bought one of my first big pieces for their family of four dogs.That was a very memorable shoot because it was the first time I had four sets of eyes looking at me all at once. It happened on the second shot. I thought pet photography was easy. Maybe not easy, but very fulfilling. It's my favorite thing ever.I'm working on a new project now -- still involving dogs -- and I asked them to help me out ...

You might recall from a while back that I photographed images for KVP International's catalog... yes, the maker of the cone of shame. Well, oops, I did it again. The shoot took place in Malibu where we met before the sun came up along with rangers who let us in the gates. That's what you get when you have a permitted shoot. No hassle and needed amenities, like parking on the grounds.For the previous year, we photographed among the hills of Malibu... golden grasses, mountains, oaks. Very wild California. For this year's catalog, we were at Carrillo State Beach.We had a blast... the dogs took to their cones like trained models... they weren't but they didn't need to be. And we got photos in ...

I'm in Africa right now (I know! Hopefully, I'll have lots of animals to show you when I get back) but I wanted you to see these two cuties, Cooper and Cody, a pair of golden boys if ever there was one. Their human grandmother gifted their fathers with this shoot. Their dads were going to move into this house two weeks from our session and they wanted it to be done there since, obviously, they were just about to move in.The house is spectacular with all kind of woods in the interior. It is just so grand, a really old part of Los Angeles, and just oozes charm. It looks like it could have been the location of any number of movies and it turns out it has been. A celebrity house.Once everyone ...

I wouldn't say I went kicking and screaming into automating my gift certificates... I would say I had to find the right way to do it and I think I found it. I just started offering gift certificates you can literally buy from a link on this site. Hey, getting smart in my old age.Gift certificates start at $350 and that enables your recipient to get their pet photography session and their choice their choice of $100 off the purchase of wall art or an album, or two 8x10s, or one 11x14. Pretty good, it gives them options (by the way, I don't sell GCs unless they include a product because there's nothing worse than getting a gift and finding out your holding the bag on all purchases). Have you ...