Bold colors is  the theme for week 44 of the 52 week dog photography project and I'm in southern California! I'm in my happy place. I lived here from 2004 - 2007 and it's my favorite place in the world. I don't get back here as often as I like but when I do, I'm in heaven.

We are in week 30 of the 52 week dog photography challenge and this week our topic is shadows. I love photos with a lot of moody shadows. Let me be more specific: I love looking at them. I'd love to know how to create them. I'm not there yet.

I think leash removeal in dog photography is something most people probably think we photographers don't have to do. Just look through my website. There isn't a leash to be seen... until this post. For most people looking at photos on my website, they probably think I'm photographing perfectly behaved, well-trained dogs that are all off-leash. I am not but I can understand why someone would think that.

Backlighting is the theme for week 24 of our dog photography 52 week project. The theme was announced at the end of last week on a day when I had a session scheduled so that night I was sure to take some shots with backlighting. My model Pearl was ready to call it quits at this point but I did ask her to pose a few more times because as the sun went down, it got prettier and prettier.

I'm in a 52 week dog photography project and each week we are given a theme to take photos of and this week our theme is sunsets. I've been traveling a lot the past month which is unusual for me. I was in Cape Cod 4 weeks ago and I just got home from Colorado less than 48 hours ago.