Reese and I go way back, back to the days when he was just a mini-MinPin; which is the better part of the past decade.  Reese is the pal and companion of my long-time friend, Carla.  Lisa and I spent the weekend with Carla and her hubby, Pieter, two weekends ago in their beautiful home over looking the endless canyon in Camino (for those of you not in the know, that is the sierra foothills not far from Lake Tahoe).  When we weren’t wine tasting or playing Spades, I got out the camera and made a model out of Reese.

He wasn’t too keen on the whole smile and hold still thing, but he did enjoy the treats and kindly posed for me until he decided he had better things to do.  Reese is a total sweetie and I remember fondly the nights when I would “dog-sit” and he would crawl under the covers!  Thanks for the wonderful weekend guys and give Reese a big hug and treat from me.

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I was on vacation the week before Christmas in beautiful, sunny San Diego when I had the chance to do a little traveling pet photography.  I had a session in Balboa Park with our good friend Tena and her amazing dog, Skylar.  Skylar is an amazingly well trained and very, very sweet lab who, it is clear, adores her human.  The feelings are mutual as is obvious when they play and romp together.

Meet my friend Skylar.

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Well, it is the final week of Project 52 for 2011. I’ve been very remiss lately and not participating regularly, but I got it together for this week’s challenge of ‘circles’. Any circle would do, so here you have one of my favs, Ashi with her much loved Frisbee.

Good capture if I do say so myself!

Enjoy all and Happy New Year!

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Let’s see what Jenny Froh http://jennyfroh.com/blog has for us this week!





About one week ago I received a very cool gift from a repeat client of mine.  I’ve had the extreme pleasure to photograph Ashi and Suki twice in the past year and the most recent time was in our new hi-key studio.  See aren’t they adorable?!!!!!

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Well, their human, the also very cool Val, called me up and said she wanted to stop by and give me something.  Intrigued, I said sure come on by!  The gift was a bottle of red wine from Mutt Lynch Winery.  But what makes it especial cool is the label, which features a photo of Ashi; one of mine!  How cool is that?

I look forward to drinking the nice red wine inside, but I’m keeping the bottle in my studio permantely.

Thanks Val, you rock!

If you want a custom bottle of wine, check out their website and if you need a good photo for it, give me a call!

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Since we had our grand opening of the new hi-key portrait studio in October, I’ve been keeping busy. I thought it might be fun to share some on my recent clients.

Sit back, turn up the volume and Enjoy!





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