I had a very fun photo shoot with Pebbie last weekend. This shoot has 2 firsts for me, its shot at a new location and its the first one with my ‘new’ (third hand =p ) 5D.  The park has nice open fields and the evening sun was quite cooperative for the most part. Pebbie was also quite the poser so long as theres either food or a secret weapon (more on that later) I hope that her parents enjoyed their time as much as I did photographing her.

When you have the trets anything is possible

And here is the secret weapon!She goes crazy for it

Cocker Spaniels have thier tails docked but hers was cut a little too much and well her butt literally wiggles since theres no stump to wag.. Not that I was staring at her handquaters…

After all that acitvity she finally showed some signs of tiring out

The nose Knows…

And finally the proper portraits. The 85/1.8 is simply stunning on a 5D. Am am itching to try out a 135/2 soon though

And the money shot (IMO) and personal fav of the session. It was a close tie between this and the Nose one.

Thanks for visiting. To Pebbie’s Parents: Hope you like the photos

Cookie(s)!  Cookie is quite an unusual looking chihuahua. Due to her long ears she often gets mistaken for a Papillon! She was very friendly and spent quite a bit of time checking out my camera bag due to the many dozens of scents it has picked up over my many shoots

We started the session walking around the block a little but Cookie was more of an indoor kinda dog so we didn’t walk around that long. Managed to get a nice headshot of her though.

Once back home she quickly warmed up

This shot took quite a few tries

More happy faces

Deal?

I’m so thankful for the large window next to the couch which made for an excellent natural softbox

“Think pretty”

I could’ve kicked myself for missing this, luckily her mom pointed out her unique feature

New year greetings to all

I had a very fun session with Dodo and MoMo last Saturday. Hope that their owners did’nt end up too tired after that shoot as they had to leave for a lunch gathering soon after.

The 2 girls were quite active and loved to explore though Dodo was a little more reserved while her firend Momo was much more adveerous. Still they did appear to have lots and lots of energy which showed when we let them loose in the run.

Gotta love Dodo’s crazy flying ears

Momo was havng a great time running back and forth in the run.

This one took quite a bit of coaxing from them

We went indoors a little later to escape the heat and tried some shots on the couch. Lucky Dodo has a health shiny coat that helped her stand out from the black couch well View the b/w version at this link

Some solo shots of Dodo

A little hard to look dignified with ears that big IMO

I have to say though the Momo seemed to work the camera better Here she did get a little too curious..

Relaxing on the couch

I love how she looks so confident in this pic. See black/white version over here

And my absolute favorite from the day