The middle of the day is when the sun hits the highest point in its arc as it travels across the sky. (Yeah yeah, the Earth rotates, the sun stays still, yadda yadda!). At the hightest point, the most light is available to grow plants, bake landscapes and mess up photographs.  Did you know that the middle of the day isn’t always noon? It’s true! Head to Date & Time and type in your city (or a big city in your region). If you scroll to the current date and click on it, you’ll see a curved graph that illustrates when the sun rises, hits the middle of the day and when it sets. (This is a ..read more

Welcome to the meet and greet series of the sessions at About A Dog Photography! You’ll get to meet each of the sessions – Digital Dog, Short & Sweet, Teenie Weenie, Shitty Weather and Puppy Series – and learn what makes each session unique.  The last in the series is the Short & Sweet Session! What is the Short & Sweet Session? Short & Sweet Sessions are shorter in duration (20 minutes!) and offered exclusively a few times during the year, typically during the summer and when the fall colors arrive.  The session goes like this:  We meet at the location of my ch ..read more

Welcome to the meet and greet series of the sessions at About A Dog Photography! You’ll get to meet each of the sessions – Digital Dog, Short & Sweet Session, Teenie Weenie, Shitty Weather and Puppy Series – and learn what makes each session unique.  Next in the series is Teenie Weenie Session! What is the Teenie Weenie Session? This session is quite short in duration – a whopping 10 minutes! Hence the Teenie Weenie name!  This is an exclusive session offered only at certain times during the year – during fall colors & at holiday time.  Teenie Weenie Sessions can occur i ..read more

Welcome to the meet and greet series of the sessions at About A Dog Photography! You’ll get to meet each of the sessions – Digital Dog, Short & Sweet Session, Teenie Weenie, Shitty Weather and Puppy Series – and learn what makes each session unique.  Next in the series is Shitty Weather Sessions What is the Shitty Weather Session? This session takes place from January to March, during the shitty weather season when it is too bloody cold to be outside for portraits (general rule of thumb: it needs to be 15 degrees or warmer to do a session outdoors, including windchill.) So when it is ..read more

Welcome to the meet and greet series of the sessions at About A Dog Photography! You’ll get to meet each of the sessions – Digital Dog, Short & Sweet Session, Teenie Weenie, Shitty Weather and Puppy Series – and learn what makes each session unique.  The next in the series is the Puppy Series Session! (See the first in the series here: Digital Dog Session) What is the Puppy Series Session? These sessions celebrates everything PUPPY! From baby toe beans and shark teeth, to oversized paws and ears, to lanky legs and goofy teenager antics to polished adult, these sessions are designed t ..read more

Welcome to the meet and greet series of the sessions at About A Dog Photography! You’ll get to meet each of the sessions – Digital Dog, Short & Sweet, Teenie Weenie, Shitty Weather and Puppy Series – and learn what makes each session unique.  The first in the series is the Digital Dog Session! What is the Digital Dog Session? Featuring the longest amount of photography time (up to an hour and half) the Digital Dog Session is a causal paced, fun and long enough for ample portraits of your dog (or multiple dogs) plus family portraits without feeling like we are chaotically trying to squ ..read more

February 9th is National Pizza Day! What better way to celebrate than with a pizza pie as big as the SKY!  Though, pizza isn’t the best food for dogs to have (a snack of a bit of crust here and there is ok!) so we need to create a dog friendly pizza! The ingredients for the crust: Oat flour Yeast Eggs Baking powder Olive Oil ALL of which are ok for dogs to eat! BUT… DO NOT feed you dog any of the raw, uncooked dough! The raw yeast creates carbon dioxide when it rises – which is not good in a dog’s tummy!  Now for toppings: Pizza sauce – no, but tomatoes yes (see below) Onions – TO ..read more

Did you know that dogs can’t see red? It’s true! Dogs are dichromatic, meaning they only have two kinds of cones in their eyes (humans are trichromatic which means 3 kinds of cones!).  The red cone is missing from dogs’ eyes which means they can’t see the color red, but instead they see grays or dark browns.  The red cone is missing meaning that dogs can’t see red, nor tell it apart from green. Instead they can see in blue and yellow tones as well as muddy browns, blacks and greys. Though, in their red color trade off dogs gained a broader peripheral vision and ability to see better ..read more

Today is National Hot Chocolate Day (January 31st)! Normally hot chocolate (or hot cocoa) isn’t something you can share with your dog because… CHOCOLATE! Did you know that there is a non chocolate faux chocolate you can use to make your dog a toast, tasty mug of hot chocolate? Its.. CAROB! First things first: Hot chocolate is not hot cocoa! Harking to our childhood, we could have a mug of hot chocolate or a mug of cocoa. Both of which would have been whipped up with a package of powdered cocoa, give or take mini marshmallows. Turns out hot chocolate and hot cocoa are two DIFFERENT things! I di ..read more

Today (January 28th) is National Blueberry Pancake Day! What better way than to celebrate with fluffy blueberry pancakes? (Aside from waffles haha) There is no better way to celebrate! And why not craft some fluffy blueberry pancakes for your dog too!  Ok, your first question is… can dogs have pancakes? Heck yes they can! Moderation is key to pancakes along with any bakery style treat like cupcakes, cakes, breads, doughnuts and waffles. The more sugar and fats in the treat, the less dogs should eat. With pancakes, small dogs can have a small pancake or two (quarter to half dollar size) wh ..read more