Cadbury came bouncing into the studio in June, with her older sister Elly. She immediately settled in, checking it all out and getting her nose into everything (including my bag of treats!). Its always great to get a bit of puppy love in the studio! These are my favourite photos from the session, I hope you like them.
Although she loved the liver treats, she responded especially well to noises and a squeeky toy got us the lovely head tilt in the first photo. The other inquisitive expressions followed as I went through my farm yard repetoire, but I definately think the cat noises were her favourite. They learn so young…!
Thanks to Cadbury’s Mum and Dad for bringing Cadbury and Elly in, we will have to do a special on Elly to!
We just spent a few days camping at Aratula, near Cunninghams Gap, and of course we took the dogs with us. It was great to get away, and we really were away from it all without the usual running hot water and toilet block on hand. Wonderful! It was REALLY cold so we slept all cuddled together in a heap in the middle of the tent, hoping not to have to go for a walk in the middle of the night.
It was a few days of ‘firsts’, especially for our new boy Bollo. First time camping for Bollo, first time sitting around a camp fire for Bollo, first time swimming for Bollo, first time pulling Beck headfirst into the water for Bollo. Yes he had lots of fun ;-) Sophie also enjoyed herself, getting in the water and rolling in mud, as well as seeing off a wandering Staffie (she looked so tough in her pink pyjamas!). We decided that she was finding her ‘inner dog’ (too much time spent sleeping on the sofa, sometimes she forgets she isn’t human!).
Bollo has also just completed his Urban Basics training course with our friends Danielle and Paul at Urban Dog Training. When he arrived a couple of months ago from the RSPCA he didn’t even know sit, now he can walk on a loose lead, sit, stay, and my favourite of all ‘leave-it’. I dropped some chicken on the floor yesterday RIGHT under his nose, and before he could wolf it down I said ‘leave it’ and he just sat and looked at me. Such a proud dad! Had to give him the chicken anyway of course, plus a bit extra for being a good boy. He still can’t fetch beer though so more work to be done.
If you get a chance, please vote for us in the Paws and Claws Awards for best pet photographer! We are running a competition as a way of saying thankyou for your vote, more details here, you could win a fantastic Canon DSLR camera, with a lens, and a lesson on how to use it from yours truly. Fantastic!
Zoo Studio is very excited to announce that we have been nominated for the 4th Annual Paws and Claws Awards 2010 - as First Class Pet Photographer.
To celebrate we thought it would be a great idea to run a fabulous competition in conjunction with these Awards. That way all our clients and supporters get a chance to win something too, when you vote for Zoo Studio as First Class Pet Photographer!
It’s the Peoples Choice Awards and EVERY Vote counts. So, if you love what we do and would like to be in with a chance to win one of two great prizes, please get your vote in now. Oh and don’t forget to tell your friends and family to vote too! Voting is online, fill out the Paws and Claws voting form here Voting closes on 26th August 2010.
See Terms and Conditions on this Competition for further information
Some of you might be wondering why I haven’t posted for a while, we lost our beautiful girl Tian a few weeks back to cancer. I wanted the next blog post to be about her, but have found it very difficult to write up until now. I know many of our clients have met her, and as you all know she was a gentle, playful, loving girl. We still miss her so much.
Travel well Tian, our wonderful smiley dog, we will never forget you.
Now we don’t get many Guinea Pigs in the studio… which is a shame, because as I found out today they are very photogenic! Its great when we get something a bit different in the studio, whether it is Guinea Pigs, Snakes, Lizards, Rats, Birds… we love a bit of variety.If you have an exotic pet, why not give us a ring to get a session booked?
We also had some beautiful dogs in, and an especially cheeky bunch at that. Makes the sessions lots of fun, thats for sure.
Beck and I also had a wonderful mini break in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. It was nice to get away for a couple of days, and for once I think Beck took more photos than me! I am normnally up and about early when on holiday to get the morning light, but I guess I just needed my beauty sleep.
Hope you enjoy this weeks photos! For all you Facebookers out there, they will be going on there soon too. From now on we will do the sneak peeks on Facebook, and save the blog for other interesting items and important news.
