Jack is an Old English Bulldog that was in need of a formal portrait. Due to his very busy social schedule I only had a short period between state functions to shoot his photograph. Despite his rather professional demeanor I found him exceptionally charming and quite warm. (I probably shouldn’t spoil his “tough guy” image but he was quite friendly & greeted me immediately with repeated wet slobbery kisses.)

Amos lives in Fairbanks Alaska. This particular day it was in the mid 70′s, quite beautiful outside and Amos REALLY wanted to go out and play. He spent the majority of his photo session looking out the French doors and doing his best to express his desire to be let out. I pretended to be a stupid human not understanding a single meow while clicking away at my shutter.

I probably should have named this post differently because I don’t believe Bella is at all aware that she is a dog. I thought she was never going to be satisfied with her hair & makeup before the shoot. Ok, she wasn’t really wearing makeup… Morkie’s are naturally beautiful! A while back I did a post about her beautiful black lab ‘sister’ Mist that you can read here. They are both beautiful and just as sweet as they look!

Not long ago I was setting up my camera at a clients to do some portrait photography when a beautiful black Labrador retriever “Mist” walked up carrying a white Frisbee & proceeded to start tapping my leg with the disk. I confess, I am a sucker for a pretty face & Mist is very persuading so I took a few minutes to do a little playing. Fortunately, she is much better at catching than I am at throwing. Despite the lack of accuracy of my throws, Mist was quite patient with me & virtually always able to catch my passes in mid air. I love doing pet portraits & after my scheduled session she was kind enough to negotiate with her “people” to have her portrait taken as well. I also photographed Mist’s adorable Morkie “stepsister” Bella. I’ll be sure & post Bella’s beautiful portrait soon.