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Discover Dogs 2012 Pictures

November 13, 2012 bubbleperm Leave a comment

Here’s some of the dogs I photographed at Discover Dogs at Earls Court last Saturday. It was good to be back there again and I managed to meet up with some of the lovely people I’d been corresponding with over the year. This is a great event to go to if you’re already a dog owner or are thinking of getting a dog as 200 or so breeds are there on show. Enthusiastic and knowledgable breed owners are there to fill you in on everything you need to know about their particular breeds. I’m always intrigued to see so many different dogs all together; tall ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones, lively ones, docile ones. They’re all there. I even managed to see a few that I recognised (and photographed) from last year like Vinnie the Dogue de Bordeaux and Bobby the Schnauzer. One dog I didn’t get to see however (although I know he was there because he was tweeting) was Lucky the Chihuahua. I did a dog photo session with Lucky a month or so back and some of the pics can be found after this post and on my Facebook page.

I’m also going to give a mention to the person with the best hair of the day, namely Bridget Orlando. She was photographing the poodles at the same time as me so I just had to get a shot of her with her closely-cropped, pink spotty hair. Bridget is an artist who paints people and animals – her dog portrait gallery has some lovely images – check it out.

Gizmo, Shih Tzu

Hugo, Australian Service Dog/Labradoodle (left) and Oscar, Labradoodle

Rascal, Jack Russell/Norfolk Terrier X

Lyra (front), Cairo (left) and Cuba (right), Italian Greyhounds

Megan, Lowchen

Megan (right) and Sherry, Lowchen

Freddie, Lhasa Apso

Buddy, Mastiff

Ollie (front) and Tasha, Manchester Terriers

Sasha, Norwegian Bohund

Nina, Pug

Silas, Standard Poodle being photographed by Bridget Orlando (Pet Portraits)

Maddy, Parson Russell Terrier

Bobby, Schnauzer

Finn, Welsh Corgi (Cardigan)

Flint, English Springer Spaniel

You better watch him – he’ll have your sandwiches!

Flint, English Springer Spaniel

Star, Smooth Fox Terrier

Dilys, Welsh Terrier

Dexter, Wire Haired Daschund (left) and Dodger, Jack Russell X

Dodger, Jack Russell X (right) and Dexter, Wire Haired Daschund

Southern Golden Retriever Display Team

Ollie, Southern Golden Retriever Display Team

Elvis, Basenji

Priscilla, Basenji

Ralph, Basset Griffon Vendeen (Grand)

Norman (left) and Nelly, Chinese Crested

Vinnie, Dogue de Bordeaux

Norman, Chihuahua under the legs of Vinnie, Dogue de Bordeaux

Vinnie, Dogue de Bordeaux

Anya, Keeshond

Quesa, Italian Spinone

Winter, Italian Greyhound

If you like the pictures, why not subscribe to my blog or ‘like’ my Facebook page for regular updates. I’ll add these pics to the online shop part of my website in case anyone would like a print done. Whatever you do, spread the word! If you recognise any of the dogs on here, let the owner know. And lastly, while I’m plugging my services, why not click on the link to find out about my one-to-one dog photo sessions – you may even be able to get one in before Christmas or buy a voucher for a session (which is valid for six months).

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Sunday at Crufts #1

March 11, 2012 bubbleperm 2 comments

Well it’s the final day and I must admit I’m getting a feeling of dog photography fatigue.

It’s Hounds and Terriers today and I’ve been doing the usual thing of arriving in the morning, entering one of the halls and working my way around, especially the showing areas.

Although I’ve got no brief or deadlines with this project, I’m trying to keep the coverage up to date with a blog post/pictures at roughly the same time each day so that all the people I’ve spoken to, photographed their dogs and given my card to, have something to look out for when they get back each evening.

The hits on the site have gone up and up this week and this is all good. If you are reading this, please can you pass this blogsite on to any of your friends, Facebook groups, dog-owners groups, dog businesses or anybody else who may be interested.

I’m writing this in the press room and there’s a few more people here today, I expect in anticipation of the Best In Show to come later. I’m going to shoot it from one of the press seats. Personally, I don’t find photographing in the arena particularly rewarding. Getting a little elevated can help (photographically) with a clean background, but you can be a bit far off at times so we’ll see. At ringside you can get a bit closer, but then you have all the advertising in the background and as I’m not shooting for a sponsor, this is pretty unappealing anyway.

The presentation shot of the winner will be handy to have but I expect like most of these things, it will become a bit of a bun fight. Yesterday I photographed all the people with cameras photographing one of the Best in Breed presentations and a guy said to me, “there’s the picture mate” pointing at the winners. I told him I thought the picture had been covered well enough by everybody else, but he probably did know best.

Time for a cup of coffee before venturing into the main arena, to sit with the other snappers, who no doubt will blast the hell out the proceedings from 50 yards away. I’ll try to pick my moments.