Zoo Studio — New Website Launches

Wel­come to the brand new Zoo Stu­dio website.

It’s been a very busy week! We have had a full appoint­ments diary, pho­tograph­ing some beau­ti­ful ani­mals, and on top of this we have been work­ing hard get­ting the con­tent sorted for this web­site. Do have a look at the gallery, maybe your pet is in there.

Addi­tion­ally, we are busy expand­ing our prod­uct range. New to the Price List are prints mounted on Alu­minium, and we have just got back some of our dis­play prints for the stu­dio wall. All I can say is WOW! The pho­tos really pop, they look absolutely stun­ning. We have a photo of our boy Chris­t­ian as a 26x26inch, the depth and clar­ity has to be seen to be believed. If you want to see an exam­ple, get in touch and we can arrange a time.

As if that isn’t enough, we are also plan­ning some excit­ing events that are hap­pen­ing next month. The first event is the Perth Royal Show, we will be there each day, shar­ing a stand with SAFE (Sav­ing Ani­mals From Euthana­sia). We are launch­ing a cal­en­dar, on which we have been work­ing very hard since Feb­ru­ary, so come and visit us and buy a cal­en­dar, all pro­ceeds go to SAFE and they are such a very good cause.

Also com­ing up at the end of Sep­tem­ber, we are at Fair Day. I’m really look­ing for­ward to that, we are spon­sor­ing the Dog Show, and Beck is a judge! We also have a stand, so if you are going to be there do come along and say hello.

Last, but cer­tainly not least, I wanted to intro­duce you to a very spe­cial boy. His name is Teddy, and he is a beau­ti­ful Shar Pei. His owner Geoff bought him in last week, for a photo ses­sion for the SAFE cal­en­dar, it was a priv­i­lege to pho­to­graph him, and I’m very pleased to say he will have a month to himself.

That’s it for this week, please do feel free to leave a com­ment, we look for­ward to hear­ing from you.

All the best

Ken
Zoo Stu­dio

7 Responses to “Zoo Studio — New Website Launches”

1. Jan Bryson says:

   August 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm

   WOW WOW WOW — Awe­some pic­tures, amaz­ing talent

   Can’t wait to get my kit­ties in for another photo shoot soon!

   Jan
2. Levi says:

   August 28, 2008 at 2:03 pm

   Con­grat­u­la­tions on the new site Ken!
3. John says:

   August 28, 2008 at 2:05 pm

   Amaz­ing site, I’ll keep my eye on this!
4. Steph says:

   August 28, 2008 at 5:42 pm

   Thanks Ken, my dog looks like a super­star! I love my prints
5. Rory says:

   October 2, 2008 at 10:51 am

   Hey Ken — well done on the site mate — looks fan­tas­tic as does your amaz­ing pho­tog­ra­phy. Pet lovers of Perth are lucky to have your talents.

   Cheers

   Rory
6. Liz Jewell says:

   November 15, 2008 at 6:53 pm

   Con­grat­u­la­tions to a great pho­tog­ra­pher, great site and stun­ning pho­tos.
   Wish­ing you a bright future in your pho­tog­ra­phy field, some­thing you deserve.
   Star qual­ity work!!!
   Will be back
7. Geoff Birkbeck and Teddy Bear says:

   November 22, 2009 at 5:28 pm

   Ken,

   Nice to see Teddy get a write up. Since the photo shoot Teddy has had 2 lots of eye surgery and we both have moved up to the Pil­bara. Teddy misses his old life doing the “meet and greet” in Oxford Street Leed­erville and spends his time try­ing to keep cool in the Pil­bara heat.

   Teddy’s story is that I first saw him the the City of Stir­ling pound and 3 months later found him in the care of SAFE. He needed a lot of surgery accord­ing to the pound and I did not have secure accom­mo­da­tion at the time. He put on 7 kgs in 5 weeks under my care and it was revealed that he had an untreated bro­ken tail and hair­line frac­ture of his skull. Teddy was very shy with me at first but adored female com­pany. It took a bit for him to set­tle in and is a very aloof dog. He loves his toys and rides in the car and his favorite past time is sleep­ing. He hardly barks, only when i come home, or when some­thing dis­turbs him or after 5 min­utes of being left at a shop. He holds off for that time then starts up. Teddy loves his “mum” Sue, my part­ner and sue doesn’t let him get away with much unlike his “Dad”. He loves other dogs espe­cially small ones and chil­dren. Teddy is pro­tec­tive of Sue to the point he walks in front of her when we spend time together. Teddy too some time to adjust to my shift work and stayed with a friend when I was on 12 hour days. He was good when I was on nights sleep­ing most of the day when I did after hav­ing a play in the mornings.

   Teddy got rec­og­nized after the cal­en­dar was released. One woman stopped me in Kings Park and asked was he the one in it. Strangers would call out to him by name. Peo­ple came out of shops and restu­rants and even stopped their cars to see if it was him. Of course he loved it. Teddy was con­sid­ered an “Oxford Street Per­son­al­ity” and I believe got a men­tion in a rock news­pa­per arti­cle about Greens and Co cafe being “the ice cream eat­ing dog”

   I made some won­der­ful friends through Teddy. I met my part­ner and soon to be wife Sue though him in directly. I got to speak to some lovely peo­ple that I would never have met unless it was for him. In my last job all I met was some nasty ones. When I got stabbed at work poor Teddy could not under­stand why I could not walk and had to stay with friends.

   Now as a Ranger, my asso­ci­a­tion with SAFE still applies but in a dif­fer­ent capac­ity. SAFE Perth has re-homed 3 dogs for me in the past 5 weeks. 2 found homes imme­di­ately. I send dogs out of dis­trict to Perth so they can have a bet­ter chance of a new life. I miss every­one of them. Teddy has become “The Offi­cial Prison Vis­i­tor” as I use him to see how the inmates get on socially. My first impound believe it or not was a female shar pei in poor con­di­tion. She was sent to SAFE in a much health­ier con­di­tion than she arrived with me.

   Teddy has changed my life. I learned to be respon­si­ble for another liv­ing crea­ture, I had to learn to cook as he needed a bal­ance diet, he taught me how to love again. I met Sue because of him. I would be lost with­out my boy.