06-13-09

Yesterday was Planned Pethood's 30th birthday party. I was asked to take portraits of the dogs there. I have a background stand and white paper, but didn't really want to use the paper since they were predicting rain and it had been raining off and on the past day or so. So I bought a 8ftx10ft blue tarp and used that hooked up to the background stand with alligator clips and duct tape. Note to self, get another blue tarp and some more tent stakes. They also had an agility course set up next to me. This girl with a beautiful little sheltie wanted pictures and was lamenting that had to retire her sheltie from agility because of a knee problem and she never had any pictures of him doing agility other than a few snap shots. I told her I could do some for her. So we ran him though the course and I snapped a few pictures. I really liked them for it being my first time ever trying agility. I think I'm going to contact a few local agility groups and see if I can stop by sometime and snap some pictures. And then at the end I took a few formal portraits of him for her.

06-06-09

Another Saturday and another Planned Pethood adoption event. This time I took along my background and got some pictures of the dogs in front of it. I think a nice clean background really makes the dogs stand out. Of course the photographers dogs have no pictures and I haven't taken my own fosters dogs in front of the background. Next week is the Planned Pethood's 30th birthday party and I'm suppose to take pictures of the participants there.

06-05-09

I spent part of the day on Friday at the Toledo Zoo They have a wonderful aviary for taking pictures. In some of the rooms the birds are free flying and there are murals painted on the walls to simulate trees, sky, clouds etc. With a little adjustment the background fades out. I stayed out of the aquarium for once. Usually I go in there and end up sitting in front of the jellyfish for hours. But I did find my way to the rose garden where the flowers were in full bloom.

05-25-09

I tried to go take a sunset picture tonight. I should have gone last night. The colors in the sky were so pretty. Tonight it was very overcast and we have a NE wind, which makes for a very rough lake.

05-24-09

I made a quick trip through the Magee Marsh and took some pictures on Sunday. While I always envy people in the tropics with exotic birds to take pictures of, I guess I should be thankful living so close to such a wonderful place to photograph colorful songbirds.

05-23-09

Another Saturday and another Planned Pethood adoptathon. And as usual I took pictures of the dogs that were there. Perdita is a little chihuahua mix that was there and was adopted. Missy is a black and tan terrier mix that was in terrible shape when we got her. She was missing most of her hair on her body. And although she is still looking a little sparse in hair she does look a lot better. Prudence is a puggle that was adopted by a former student of Prudence's foster mom. Talk about a small world. And Scooby is a newfie mix that I rescued from the pound. I took him to his foster family and I took the picture of him with the family's young son standing next to him. Marley is a border collie mix that was confiscated along with 14 other dogs from a family that was leaving the dogs living in horrible conditions.

05-22-09

A friend asked me to take photos of her baby for her 1st birthday. I used white paper for the background and a white shower curtain for the floor. The little girl was getting tired, so she took a nap while I shot pictures of her mom and dad with their dogs. I did get one picture of Nikki who is the executive director of Planned Pethood which I told her she could use for press releases and her Facebook page.