Minnesota Dog Photographer

Blue’s First Christmas aka Christmas with a puppy!

Showing up on Sunday formally, celebrated on multiple days if not the month long, it’s Christmas! Wrapped presents with fun surprises inside, the tree decked with lights and ornaments and a 6 month old puppy, huzzah! If this is your puppy’s first Christmas here are some things to remember for Christmas day: Unwrapping presents is fun but… don’t let your puppy eat the paper! Overall it probably won’t hurt them, but if you don’t want other paper things to be nommed on, then keep wrapping paper away.  Leash your puppy as guests are entering or leaving, especially if your pup’s […]

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Humans Belong in Dog Photos Too! Here’s Why

The bond we have with our dogs goes deep, etched back into the seams of ancestry. In fact the dog & human bond may have led to some epic evolutionary events in our shared history.  Backwards we go into time, not as far as the dinosaurs, but around the time the hominoids descended from the trees. These early hominoids transitioned into upright positions freeing their hands for use of tools for hunting. Dogs didn’t exist, though their wolf ancestors did.  Time transitioned, the wolf becoming part of human life & transitioning into dogs as we know them in modern age.

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From Above: The Magic of the Lookdown Shot

There are many various angles that you can photograph a dog.  Eye level, lower than eye level, lower than the ground, on a diagonal (don’t do this…) and from looking down on a pup – aka the lookdown shot. (Yes a lookdown shot literally means an image where you are looking down on your subject from above.)  A lookdown angle pairs lovely with textures and patterns on the ground – leaves or cobblestones – or if your dog is tucked between your legs.  What makes a lookdown shot special? This is the angle we see our dogs in 90% of

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From Straight to Curved: Playing with Lines in Dog Photography

Ever have one of those photography themes where you can’t think of a jazzy blog title?– Get in Line– On Line– On the Line– Lining Up– In the Lines Hmm… each feels a bit vague for the way a line can be a quintessential part of photography. Commonly found as a rule of composition in leading lines, these types of lines lead the eye of the viewer into & around the scene of the image, frequently landing on the subject. Done correctly they have huge impact, done poorly your viewer will miss the subject in your image or miss where

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My Dog’s a Little Wild… Can They Still Rock a Photo Session?

My dog is not well behaved, is that ok? And by not being well behaved it means my dog: doesn’t listen to commands like sit or lay is MEGA hyper active goes bat shit crazy in new areas has selective hearing or any other assorted not well behaved behaviors your dog may have Fret no more! Your dog can be a total goofball—no sit-stays required—and I’ll still capture EPIC images of them. The best part? Your pup will look like an obedience school superstar in the final photos! All it takes is a split second (literally just a moment or

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The Rainbow Bridge

The Rainbow Bridge is where our pet cross when they have departed from us. Their landing point is a vast open area, brimming with every favorite landscape with ample opportunities to play, swimming, chase, fetch and nap. Each of our dogs who has departed and all the dogs before them live in harmony in this space, perhaps forever, perhaps until they return to the land of the living as a new dog in a new land, new time and with new people to protect, love, inspire and teach. This of course is based on your mythology of what happens to

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