When he isn’t on his daily hunt for lost gloves, Hamiln enjoys long walks on the (Willard) beach and modeling fine dog leashes!  🙂  These leashes are handmade in Maine and can be found here.  Knotty Dog Leashes are a perfect Christmas idea for any dog lover!

I  always said my favorite things to photograph were people.  But over the past couple years, I have come to realize that while I do love photographing people, ultimately, I love photographing RELATIONSHIPS between people.  I love being able to catch something for people to see that normally they can only feel.  Aaaand this also applies to people and their pets.  I am a dog lover.  You all know that.  So when Jessica and Justin contacted me to do photos of them with their dog Harper, I had a huge smile on my face.  Then when they told me he had cancer and potentially only a short time left, the tears rolled.  Jessica and Justin: thank you for trusting me to photograph your family and your Harper during this special and very difficult time in your lives.  I hope these photos help you see the love you feel for Harper and the love he feels for you.  To view their slideshow, please click here.         

For the past couple of years, I have photographed this family and it has been so fun to see Amy grow each year and CC too!  Ginger is the newest addition to this family and isn’t she a sweetie?  Rest assured, there was NO squealing or high pitched doggie talk happening at all during this session.  Nope.  Not one bit.  🙂

Curly Girl has this card that says, “Good dogs are with us for a little while to teach us how to love like it’s our job…because it is.”  I love that and you KNOW how much I love dogs.  Both Sam and Puck are rescue dogs and they both are SO SWEET.  I LOVE photographing dogs and their humans.  And don’t worry, we made conversation for them in doggie voices the whole time…      

I currently am working on making a promo video and what I really mean by that is Dave is working on making me a promo video!  Anyway, for the video, I asked begged Amy + Matt if they would be models for me.  🙂  They were sweet and agreed to it.  Along with putting up with extreme heat, bugs, and tall itchy weeds.  TROOPERS.  Aren’t they cute?  Well, today is Amy’s birthday!  So HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Amy!  And thanks to the both of you!  🙂

And a few action shots:  🙂

I know it’s lame to talk about complain about this weather.  So maybe we should just all crawl under the covers until the sun comes out again.  Anyone? 

Meet Isabelle and Sebastian.  Meet the most well behaved dogs in Rochester.  Isabelle is sassy and Sebastian is loyal beyond loyal.  (Can you guess who is who?)  And their mom, Annalissa, is not only amazing with her own dogs, but she is also amazing with other people’s dogs!  Annalissa is a professional dog trainer and runs the Good Dog Camp in Rochester.  Ohmygosh, I love dogs and I love them!

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but lately, I’ve really been slacking when it comes to blogging.  You’ve heard “I AM going to catch up on my blogging soon” about 3487 times.  (See yesterday’s post…)  So, I’ve  given myself an ultimatum.  Either catch up or pawn it off on someone else.  And clearly, pawning it off was the better option.  Stay tuned…

In other news, Ike is cute.

*Photo of this crazy dog was taken on my point and shoot camera.

“Good dogs are with us for a little while to teach us how to love like it’s our job…because it is.”  -Curly Girl

I’m a dog person but I’m pretty sure these eyes could melt anyone’s heart.  These sweet pooches need good people to give them a home.  Please, please, please (with a milkbone on top?) visit Small Dog Rescue of MN’s website or facebook page for adoption information.

Nala:

Roxie:

Gomez:

And Sally, who has been adopted!