Ha, gotcha! There is no Vanity Fair cover. I'll walk you through my headline, though. Last September, I photographed a litter of nine Weimaraner puppies and their mother, Ryan O'Brien. Also in the photo was the puppies grandfather, Grayson. He's one of the Silver Eire Weimaraner champions. They were called the Literature Litter and one of the puppies was perched on two book volumes, which I created in Photoshop and called "Weimaraners in Literature" and "Silver Eire Weimaraner Champions." You probably haven't seen that image. I also did one for myself called "Dad Had the Fun Job," which won a lot of awards, including second place in the Professional Photographers of America's Grand Imaging ...
I like working with The Little Red Dog so when PJ let me know there were nine puppies and a mama to be photographed, I was all in.Now these babies aren't ready for adoption quite yet... they're only four weeks old. But now they have their baby pictures all done! Mama was a sweet dog, too. I imagine very patient as well... nine puppies? That's a lot of puppies!It was 106 degrees out when we took the photos. Yes, outside. We set up our studio outside. It was hot, let me tell you. But no puppy was outside for more than two or three minutes so no one overheated. Plus, they were covered. And they all look like they just woke up from a nap... which is exactly what was going.So let me present to ...