woof!

What Kyla thinks of all the rain today…

melissa — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:23:40 +0000

Comes with the breed…

melissa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:12:32 +0000

These nails.

Such long, husky nails.

But if she’s ever in Alaska, or Antarctica…

She’s pulling that sled, gripping that ice.

Before the battery went dead …

melissa — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:22:07 +0000

… I managed to get a shot of Kyla enjoying the beautiful weather.

I decided to convert her to a warm black and white using Gradient Map in Photoshop.

My Favorite Way to Shoot

melissa — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:59:13 +0000

Blind shooting. Just hold the camera down in front of your subject and shoot, hope you get something. Invariably, I always do. Have gotten some of my most favorite shots this way. Especially of my silly girl, Kyla.

The sun has come. She is happy.

At first I was disappointed this next series was out of focus. Then I took another look. Maybe she should be out of focus.

I have no words.

A Spring Afternoon

melissa — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:30:43 +0000

Anticipation

melissa — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:10:10 +0000

In honor of the beautiful weather today, here’s one from a summer (or two) ago. You can come back into my life anytime, Summer.

What would I do without my silly girl?

Snapshot in the Snow

melissa — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:42:24 +0000

A point-and-shoot shot of my snow-lovin’ girl – still sleepy this morning - but loving the snow.

baxter and jojo in spreads

melissa — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:25:09 +0000

Some of my favorite spreads from Baxter and JoJo’s book.

First up: the back and front cover.

Yes, that’s a dress that little JoJo is wearing. Too cute for words.

Kili | Koa

melissa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:28:15 +0000

That’s handsome Koa on the left. Graceful Kili on the right. Well, ok, so she wasn’t all grace in this first shot.

I always love it when the humans get involved in the shoot. They had to show me all the activities the dogs loved to do – and boy did they love them all.

Every time Kili caught the ball she would run over to me as if to say, “Look what I got!”

“Want to go in the car?” “Are you in the car?”

Synchronized head tilts courtesy of the word, “car.” We were saying it over and over and they kept tilting together. We were laughing so hard I could barely hold up the camera.

This is one of those moments I regret not having the flip to capture the movement. Grrr.

Hate that my car is in the background, but this ear silhouette opp just showed up in a split second as we were walking to another location.

Boy can catch some air!

Umm, is that a tongue or a hunk of liver in your mouth, Koa?

Thanks, Toby and Kris, for an awesome experience!

Best Buds

melissa — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:53:29 +0000