Diana Lundin, Pet Photographer -- The Origin StoryThis is more of a post about my pet photography beginnings, just sliced in a different way. And hey, it's fun to write "origin story!"There are several tributaries, sure, but this is how I ended down the main one to become a pet photographer here in Los Angeles who has actually won awards in several international competitions.I only say that because this is the story of how my crap photography became the thing of beauty it is today. Lol. 😂 And I say that tongue-in-cheek but I if I'm honest, I do believe my photography captures the beauty of the canine, feline, and human spirit.But here's the point! There's something you like a lot. Love. ...

What is my cinematic edit? It's kind of shifting the colors a bit so they aren't natural but interesting. Call it color grading, as film editors do, or as I now call my cinematic edit. I became interested in color grading as I really started noticing it in both film and photography. I mean, bop me over the head but it's been around forever. Look at movies. The colors aren't a realistic portrayal of a scene, they are an interpretive or emotional portrayal. They make you feel something, they signal something.Any sci-fi futuristic kind of movie is somewhere going to have a blue steely tone. It's cold. It's space. Any desert scene is going to be brown and dusty and will give you the feeling of ...

I'll be blunt, I really miss photographing dogs. If I miss anything during this coronavirus lockdown, aside from having income, it's getting to meet all the pets and their parents. Mostly I photograph dogs but occasionally I take portraits of cats. In any event, my two boys, Kiwi and Mango, haven't had their pictures taken for a while aside from the occasional phone photo.But in this lockdown, I thought of what I believe is a brilliant concept -- ha ha, probably just another harebrained idea. I ordered some props and built a little set for this project. And I originally hadn't conceived it for animals but then I thought, oh, that would really make it. And so I enlisted the services of my ...

Wow. Morocco. I had the most fortunate opportunity to travel to Morocco in February. Such a beautiful country, culture and cuisine! I was on a tour with 18 other people and we went to most of Morocco's greatest hits over a two-week period of time. Casablanca, Rabat, Merzouga, Erfoud, Fes, Marrakech, Essaouira... Morocco was indescribable. The scents... from the cooking to the riads, the smells were of the seven most used spices in Moroccan food to the tantalizing perfumes of amber (my favorite), verbena, orange blossom, rose, and other exotic fragrances.I can't even begin to describe what an amazing experience it was. It turns out, Morocco is the most traveled country in Africa. I suppose ...