About A Dog Photography. Dog photography. The photography of dogs.
Specifically the photography of your dog!


Based in St. Cloud, Minnesota and available to travel to wherever you and your dog are - including the Twin Cites, the North Shore, southern Minnesota...
heck if you're going to Hawaii I'll join you for an exotic beach session!

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Lazy Saturday at the Lake

With no major pending plans, I snagged Axle and Icey and headed out towards a quaint little lake for some swimming, splashing and lazy day fun. On the way out there, Axle was totally enjoying the ride...
The lake is Axle's most favorite place. He loves to retrieve tennis balls while launching off the dock to form a magnificent cannonball splash before snatching up the ball, paddling back in and repeating the process until I call it quits. 


Icey likes to join in, though she prefers swimming in circles and splashing instead of jumping off of a perfectly good dock...
The real motivation for heading to the lake is the chance to capture Axle perfecting his shake off routine. Nothing like those derpy dog lips sloshing dribbles of water off of his face. 

 I love that dog and all of his squishy face contortions!

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If you have a lake (or swimming pool) loving pup, I'd love to capture their antics, especially their crazy face contorting from shaking off!

Friday, July 18, 2014

Fairytale - 52 Week Project

This week's theme was fairytale. My first idea was elaborate and involved a wookie, a storm trooper pup and possibly an Ewok or the Millennium Falcon. Sadly I do not have a wookie or an Ewok or a Millennium Falcon, so my Star Wars "fairytale" (heehee) will have to wait for another time.

Instead I snagged a hooded long sleeve red shirt, tied it around Axle and headed to the woods with a bubbly laughing wolf in tow.
I don't think Red Riding Hood has rocked a sneer so well... the wolf probably told an awful joke!
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In bringing Axle out to the woods, not only did I want to do a red riding hood theme but I wanted to try out the Brenizer Method - which is basically panoramic stitching to create a faux medium format style image. A tough thing to do with a moving dog, plus it was a bit hit and miss with Photoshop's image stitching, but I managed to create two super mega huge res keepers.


 Next up in the fairytale theme is Suzi Pix Photography in Cincinnati, Ohio!

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Brand spanking new referral program!


This is a cool bonus program for you! Not to mention it is super mega easy to do!

Step 1. Spread the news. Tell your friends & make sure they mention that you sent them my way so you get credit for your bonuses.

Step 2. Sit back and relax! Once your dog's friends, your friends & family book a session with About A Dog Photography you will get bonuses towards your own session and or prints!

Bonus A - 1 referral = $50 off your session
Bonus B - 2 referrals = $100 off your session
Bonus C - 3 referrals = $150 off your session 
Bonus D - 4 referrals = 1 complimentary About A Dog session!!!
Bonus E - 5 referrals = 1 complimentary Seasonal Dog Session
                                 or 1 complimentary About A Dog Session + $50 print credit!

More than 5 referrals? Earn additional print credits starting at $50! Or even snag a second complimentary session to gift to someone (at 10 or 11 referrals!!)

What do your dog's friends, your friends or family  get for booking a session with a referral? They will get a bonus print credit of $50!!! 

{Past clients, you can participate too! Was there an image you would love to have as a print? Pass along the love and referrals and the bonuses will be applied to all of the prints and products you love from your original session! Or snag yourself another session! I'd love to see you and work with your dog again!}

Saturday, July 12, 2014

New York dogs and Muddy Pup Photography!

During the week of April 29-May 5th, I flew out to upstate New York - the Ithaca area to be exact - to do some rockstar building with Diane of Muddy Pup Photography. We were workshop companions from the February Hair of the Dog Workshop!

The rockstar building included developing a solid workflow, culling and editing images from a shoot, organizing the images in Lightroom and also editing the images in Lightroom. A domain was bought, a Wordpress started, a Facebook page added as well a bazillion more new passwords for Diane to remember! Check out Diane's Muddy Pup Photography Facebook!

The best part of the whole time was meeting and photographing the New York dogs!

Izze is Diane's 7 year old yellow labrador! Izze is a total food hound and will eat pretty much everything (including a basket of tea!). This lovely lady also likes to snag and carry shoes when she greets people at the door or in the morning! Diane mentioned that she couldn't get Izze to look at her for pictures, but I didn't seem to run into any problems (it helps to have food motivation!)


 Izze's bestest bud, George stopped by for a visit while his mom was out of town. He is a yellow lab mixed with a touch of husky (seen in his ears and tail) who loves tasty treats and loves to bark when he is excited or bored. Or randomly. What a nutball!

I snagged some images of George and Izze together in the their favorite spot - the woods!
I'm glad the 10% chance of rain held off until we were heading back to the car! And for such a slight chance of rain, boy did it downpour on us! Also, New York is one heck of a muddy state! I don't think there was a day I didn't encounter some sort of mud!

Dexter (aka Dex) is a stunning, super frisbee motivated german shepherd who showed off his mad frisbee catching skills, his treat on his nose trick and how to splash and wash your frisbee in a kiddie pool of water!
We met Amos and Libby in a cute little garden area. Although there wasn't much for flowers, the scenery was pretty and the dogs were superstars! Libby, the english setter, was shy at first, but quickly warmed up into a perfect model! Plus those markings are stunning!

 
Amos looked like he was a black lab, but his one brilliant blue eye suggested that there was a hint of something else in his background. Although a little stressed out he held his sit and stays perfectly!
We had more clouds and little rain showers, but they held off while Diane and I met up with Loki and Roscoe, an adorable pair of mush face pitties! Loki was the baby brother at 3 years old, and he entertained us with his very focused tennis ball chasing. His blue color (silvery grey for those who aren't familiar with dog colors) worked well with graffiti murals we found.
 Roscoe was more laid back and food motivated. His plump red brindle and white body showed his love of treats very well, plus being 7 years old he was entitled to have all of the treats he wanted!
Diane's girlfriend Kristen was dogsitting the lovely (and slightly crazy) Skye so I snagged some pictures of the dainty black lab. We adventured outside amidst a chorus of hundreds of red-winged blackbirds until the picture taking was cut short by a sunny rainstorm.

There was a pair of foster dogs that Diane and I also captured. The silly, fast paced Molly and the big sweet lug Charlie Walker! Both are have been adopted from Cayuga Dog Rescue!

I loved meeting all of the dogs and exploring the stunning area of Ithaca, NY! If you get a chance to travel to upstate New York definitely make a pit stop in Ithaca!


Friday, July 11, 2014

Details - 52 Week Project

The theme for this week's project is details. Bender was the lovely model for this and he had a wonderful sit and stay on top of my outdoor table for the shots.