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Project 53 – Week 36 – Accessorized
Friday morning means a new Project 52 post for you to feast your eyes on. Some of the members of the Beautiful Beasties Network (a professional pet photographers’ forum) are taking on the challenge of doing pet-related photography, with a theme that changes every week, for an entire year. The goal is to start shooting outside the box, to challenge ourselves as photographers and to expand our vision and talents. So far I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my participation, and I have learned to look at my dogs and their accoutrements in a different light (and at a different angle).
This week’s theme, chosen by Melissa McCabe, is accessorized. Her words were – “Please interpret as you wish – I’m thinking accessories can be some photographic tool other than your camera that help make the image (reflector, lens filter, background), tools of the trade for pet photographers that find their way into images of the pets (squeakies, treats, poo bags), or images of pets featuring accessories the pet wears or loves (collar, favourite toy, full on dress up) but whatever this means to you.”
Well, as my friends and family know, I LOVE for my dogs to accessorize! In fact, my dogs are some of the best-dressed pooches out there. This is primarily thanks to my friend Erika, who runs Classy Critter collars. Her handmade collars are second-to-none in terms of look and quality. I highly recommend them!
Jack Jack wants to show you a few of his treasured accessories . . .
Shockingly, this isn’t everything . . . just what I could round up. As you can see, we’re devoted customers of Erika’s!
I you’ve enjoyed your visit to my dogs’ accessory closet. As this is a blog ring, please continue on to Boston dog photographer Blue Amrich’s blog for more awesome photos . Once you’re done with Blue ’s blog, keep clicking through the links at the end of each blog until you get back here, and you’ll have seen all of the Project 52 blog posts for this week.
Project 52 – Week 11 – The Dogs In Our Lives
Friday morning means a new Project 52 post for you to feast your eyes on. Some of the members of the Beautiful Beasties Network (a professional pet photographers’ forum) are taking on the challenge of doing pet-related photography, with a theme that changes every week, for an entire year. The goal is to start shooting outside the box, to challenge ourselves as photographers and to expand our vision and talents. So far I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my participation, and I have learned to look at my dogs and their accoutrements in a different light (and at a different angle).
This week’s theme is the dogs in our lives, based on the poem by Paul Fersen.
DOGS IN OUR LIVES:
We aren’t house-proud.
If we were, we wouldn’t abide the scratches on the door-frame, the holes in the screen, the darkened shine of worn spots on the chair.
We would wince at the mottled carpet and fret at the hair clinging to our clothes.
We don’t.
If anything, we lovers of dogs are a tolerant lot, finding greater value in the unabashed affection of our friend than immaculate sofa’s.
Shoes can be replaced, but heroic retrievers are timeless.
Without dogs, out houses are cold recepticles for things.
Dogs make a fire warmer with their curled presence.
They wake us, greet us, protect us, and ultimately carve a place in our hearts and our history.
On reflection, our lives are often referenced in parts defined by the all-too-short lives of our dogs.
- Paul Fersen, Orvis Associate
The meaning in those words is profoud. And below I try to show evidence of the wonderful dogs in my lives.
Now that you’ve seen some signs of the dogs in my life, please head over to Pittsburgh pet photographer Nicole Begley’s blog to see the animals in her life. If you keep following the links at the bottom of each blog, you’ll go through a blog ring before ending up back here.
As always, thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.
