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Project 52 - Week 7

2/16/2018

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 I don't get the the chance to participate in this blog hop every week, but I couldn't skip this one. Especially not when I had a mini sessions at a recent Nosework seminar I was attending. The theme for the blog hop... Year of the Dog! 

The seminar was wonderful (if you get a chance to go to a Judith Powell seminar... go! She's awesome, I'm lucky to call her a friend as well as instructor.) and there were a number of dogs that wanted pictures, for some it was their first time have professional photos made. I was just going to do basic head shots, When Judith showed me  a picture she liked and mentioned one day she'd like some pictures of her like that I said, sure I can try it.

I had been wanting to do shots like this, but just hadn't had space to do it at home, and at the recent dog shows I was doing a lot of win type photos so I didn't really have time to change the lighting to something like this... so I said sure. I popped my every ready personal model Mystic up and grabbed a couple of test shots.
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On of my Test Shots of Mystic (who rocked the Nosework thing by the way!)

 So I had several dogs that wanted in when the say the results (all the got to see was the back of my camera as I was doing sessions during breaks and after the seminar, so I really didn't have a lot of time. It was also the first time I'd gotten to REALLY use my new lens. I do believe I love it . Here are a few of my favorites from the weekend..

For those who don't know this year, according to the Chinese New Year, is the Year of the Dog. (I'm kinda a fan of that, in case you didn't know.)

The Dog is the eleventh of all zodiac animals. According to  at least one myth, the Jade Emperor said the order would be decided by the order in which they arrived to his party. Monkey, Rooster and Dog were in another country, helping a god defeat evil spirits. After, they set off to the party together. Because they arrived at the same time, the Jade Emperor went by the order they met the god in the other country. Thus, Dog became eleventh. 

So basically there are 13 animals in the chinese zodiac, it will be 13 years before we have another year of the dog.... Today (friday the 16th)  is the first day of the Year of the Dog, so give your pups a snuggle, give them a treat. Make sure you get plenty of pictures of your pups this year, everyday. I plan to try to make sure my family has several pictures of each of their pups.... cause its the Year of the Dog let's celebrate!

Check out the next Blog in the hop....John from MaxNorman Pet Photography - serving the South Florida Area. http://maxnorman.com/.../pet-photography-project-52-week.../



18 Comments
Elayne Massaini link
2/16/2018 04:54:14 am

Lovely photos and great explanation about the Chinese Calendar.

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Ann
2/16/2018 11:45:18 pm

Thank you.

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Linda Metcalf
2/16/2018 06:14:24 am

Beautiful!

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Kelly Middlebrooks
2/16/2018 08:15:29 am

Beautiful images!

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Ann
2/16/2018 11:45:41 pm

Thank you!

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Kirsten
2/16/2018 08:20:28 am

Love this lighting! I need to work on that more

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Ann
2/16/2018 11:47:17 pm

This was my first time trying it... all my clients have been going crazy over it... try it.
I’m trying to figure if I can do some more at the dog show I’m at this weekend.

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Kim Hollis link
2/16/2018 08:23:05 am

I just posted a similar shot to these on my instagram page this week. The style is so much darker than my typical style, I made everyone "swipe right" to see it! I love going to seminars and workshops to continue to learn!

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Ann
2/16/2018 11:49:31 pm

The seminar wasn’t a photography seminar it’s was a Nosework seminar, the seminar host is a friend of mine...so she said bring your stuff and set up. Worked out great. I did mini sessions during our breaksZ

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Tim Evans link
2/16/2018 11:03:49 am

I just love black-background images. They are so dramatic.

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Ann
2/16/2018 11:51:03 pm

Thank you. I think they turned out alright. My clients are all loving it.

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Elaine
2/16/2018 12:45:03 pm

Wonderful photos!

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Ann
5/7/2018 05:39:39 pm

Thank you!

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Tracy Allard link
2/17/2018 07:35:31 am

Lovely work Ann, I'm sure the client were thrilled with the results!

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Ursula link
2/17/2018 12:02:37 pm

Beautiful work and love the explanation. Is a nose work seminar a seminar where the dogs have to work with their noses? I'm assuming? Detecting scents, finding people?

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Nancy link
2/17/2018 08:04:11 pm

I love low key images. I hope to learn to develop this skill. Beautiful images.

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Lynda
2/18/2018 12:11:31 pm

Beautiful lighting and lovely images. I’d love to try something like that soon.

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Linda Perdue link
2/20/2018 11:30:42 am

Lovely lighting and photographs - I've never seen this with dogs before, hopefully I can get a chance to do something like this.

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