Bill – Short Session

Bill was the last of my Manchester voucher sessions I had to do the other week, his mum had received a voucher for Christmas and it was lovely to go there and meet Bill and her, and moreover to see their relationship. Bill absolutley adores his mum and spent pretty much 99% of the sessions staring at her and checking she hadn’t left him alone with this scary woman and her big black camera! Bill was an absolute corker and it was a gorgeous day, too (yeah, what happened to those??)

I hope you like the pics!

Staffie Family!

Everyone, I’d like you to meet Harley, Tia and Maisie! These guys are the cutest Staffie family I’ve met in a long time! They’re all Laura and her sister’s dogs, all a year apart from eachother and all super adorable and energetic! Oh and they looove sticks! Super love sticks!!

We met at Laura’s house and had a change of plan with our location due to some works at the local nature reserve, so we headed down to Trafford Water Park (Laura was one of my Manchester gift voucher sessions I had last week) and I have to say this was perfect! Not to mention it’s the dogs favouritest walk ever in the world ever!!

However, this session didn’t occur without a few ‘events’ both on my part, and both embarassing. Taking photos in the water, as a pet photographer does, with my wellies firmly on (in 24C it wasn’t the usual wellies weather!) I accidentally crouched down too low and sat in the water, so carried on ambling around after a giggle, letting the sun dry myself out. Then Laura tells me there is a Jetty just round the corner, and I get excited; we arrive at the jetty and I am even more giddy to see that there are two levels a higher, dry, ground level jetty and then one a step down that is covered in about an inch of water. I step down onto the lower jetty and next thing I know I am back down, camera just about above water, on this jetty. Ah it’s covered in slippy algae then!! So a wet moment later and after checking camera and phone where all in working order after this incident, we carry on. I didn’t quite dry out as quickly this time! Haha

 

Anyway, sorry about all that drivel! Shall we move onto some photies?

Meet Harley!

Tia

And Maisie!

Debs Moran - Leanne, your pics are always fab, but these are even fabbier! Gorgeous dogs!!!

ShortDog - Thank you very much Debs! :-)

Rambo: Dog Explorer (heroic music)

Sorry for the immature blog post, but seriously, how can I not? I was literally creating explorer/saviour scenarios in my head when taking photos of this chap. And he was hilarious out and about, you’d have his attenton for 0.48423 seconds (ok, a lot longer actually) and then whoooooooooooosh he ran into the woods, and appeared a minute later goodness knows how far away – this lad gots speed!!

In the house, however. He is a right old snuggly boy. Such a babe!
I photographed Rambo’s three sisters last Autumn, so was absolutley delighted to photograph their new ‘baby’ brother! So you might see a couple of familiar faces in this post!

Keythorpe Rottie Rescue + Farm

On Friday I headed into Keythorpe to spend the morning/day with Serena and all the dogs and animals she has on the farm! Had a fantastic time, and despite the cold freezing weather (I don’t do the cold, am a shivering blue-lipped wimp!).

Friday saw my first time photographing Goats, Pigs, Horses and Cows! So with all the ickle babies on the farm it was such a treat!!

Serena has a couple of her own Rotties, two working Labs (who actually work) and all the rescue dogs, too.
Her two working labs have done something (well all else they do, too!) right and have taught Keira, the pocket rocket Rottie how to rat and be a proper farm dog! These lot running around and being able to release their drive and energy as they so wish was really lovely to see!

Since there’s a lot of pictures to show (sorry, I couldn’t cut any of them down, too much to see!) – Keira may have featured on here a lot, I apologise slightly for that. I had no idea my obsession with her was proved in the results! Oops.

I’ll just throw you into the deep end and shove some doggie butts in your face! Haha

This is Ozzy! He is one of the rescue dogs at Keythorpe at the moment, he came in in a bit of a state and Keythorpe have really helped and are continuing to help him along in his progress, bless him.

Then there’s Tarryn – the youngest of the two working Labs – Annie was off sitting watching the world, so I didn’t get any pictures of her, sadly.

Then there’s Keira – pocket rocket

So, onto the farm animals and rest of the pics!

 

I told you about the ratting, right?

Keira and Tarryn were adament there was something in the car in the barn!

 

pet portraits from photos - Lovely, natural photos of dogs and animals in their natural surroundings. So much more effective than a sterile studio shoot. Very nice work!

ShortDog @ Crufts 2012!!

Yep! I had the absolute privelege(there’s too many ‘e’s in that isn’t there?) to photograph for the YKC at Crufts this weekend. All I can say, after copious amounts of ‘thank you’ repeated over and over again, is WOW.
I have never been to Crufts before! Shocking, right! So not only was it great to be photographing there, but to see it all for the first time was mind blowing! (as anyone that was there with me knows, running around the halls, squealing at all your favourite breeds probably isn’t so professional!;-))

Having been to a couple of dog shows before, photographing at the Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust’s dog show, and Discover Dogs for the YKC, it wasn’t a totally new scenario thankfully – else I think my brain may have exploded with all this new information to take in! So knowing the basics in the show world and what is wanted/needed out of the photos did certainly help me!
What also helped was seeing a few familiar faces around, over the 3 days I was there – certainly made me relax a lot quicker!

I had an absolute blast, and it really was amazing watching all the handling, agility, obedience and other activites going on in the YKC ring – as well as being able to wander round and take everything else in, including the Discover Dogs section and all the breed classes going on in the other halls – as well as, of course, the ‘need’ to pop by all the rescue stalls, Greyhound stalls(DD included) and anything else Pointer related, too! I found myself ‘accidentially (on purpose) walking past the Greyhound rescue stalls and other places; Well – what is the point of going to Crufts and being surrounded by all those thousands of dogs without cuddling at least 50 of them? That’s my theory!!

I am warning you in advance that there are a LOT of photos below – these are a selection of my favourites from the few days. I do hope you enjoy seeing them. And the galleries from over the 3 days (where you can also purchase photos) are up here.

Enjoy!!

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