My publisher, Familius, just sent out its Fall 2019 catalog and our "Dogs Vs Ice Cream" book is in it! It's real and coming to a bookstore or pet store near you soon! It's very exciting! Very colorful! Okay, I'll calm down now. You know, I have really loved this project. I've written before that it was seven ice cream socials for dogs in August and September in which we photographed 192 dogs and cones filled with Purina's Frosty Paws doggy ice cream. I used Frosty Paws original because I wanted all the ice cream to be uniform in color -- like vanilla. I've used others that have pretty colors but I just wanted them all to be one color and Frosty Paws is very easy to find. And we just used ...
Anyone who has been around these pages for a while knows -- or probably knows me from -- my Ice Cream Social for Dogs. Well, it's back on at four locations over the summer!But if you've done one before, why would you want to do one again? Because I just signed a book contract for a book on Dogs Eating Ice Cream! That's right, a book! And your dog may get to be in it, if I have any say (I'm pretty sure I have some say!) And if you've never done one before, you and your dog are in for a real treat.The Ice Cream Social for Dogs is only $29, which includes an 8x10 print and its digital files and of course, the doggy ice cream and the shoot itself. I'll have other options to purchase for on the ...
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 ...
What word do you overuse?Me? Probably gorgeous. But when you see a beautiful frosty face like Georgie's, what word are you supposed to use? Right?Georgie's dad Oliver received a gift certificate from good friends. Oliver travels a lot so it was hard pinning down a date for our session for his miniature English bulldog. But Georgie is getting up in years and Oliver just decided not to postpone the shoot any longer. If anything happened, he would regret it no end.And so we had our shoot right in front of the ocean in Santa Monica. We didn't use the ocean as a backdrop but we had a stretch of park with green grass we could use. And then we repaired to Oliver's apartment to finish our photo ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
One of the winners of my silent auction winners contacted me over the summer, asking details about how the session works. I suddenly stopped hearing from her but then she emailed again and said her Corgi was not doing well and could we schedule her session. And so we did.When I arrived, I found 15-and-a-half-year old Danny's last day would be Sunday. It was Monday. He didn't walk well, poor boy. He couldn't hear. He could barely keep his eyes open. He looked like life had finally wrung him dry. I felt at once sad his last day would be Sunday and just as sad that he had to wait all the way until Sunday.After I culled the session, I thought, I can't charge these people. They have a $100 print ...