Ha, gotcha! There is no Vanity Fair cover. I'll walk you through my headline, though. Last September, I photographed a litter of nine Weimaraner puppies and their mother, Ryan O'Brien. Also in the photo was the puppies grandfather, Grayson. He's one of the Silver Eire Weimaraner champions. They were called the Literature Litter and one of the puppies was perched on two book volumes, which I created in Photoshop and called "Weimaraners in Literature" and "Silver Eire Weimaraner Champions." You probably haven't seen that image. I also did one for myself called "Dad Had the Fun Job," which won a lot of awards, including second place in the Professional Photographers of America's Grand Imaging ...

I had an event earlier this year called the The Untamed Beasts Traveling Circus and Slobber Show in which I photographed dogs on a circus set. An elephant plinth, a circus background and a bunch of cute props. It was quite successful and I was just about starting another one in March for Shelter Hope Pet Shop in Thousand Oaks just before the lockdown started. By that point, things were getting dicey so we canceled it, hoping we could do it later.We haven't so far but one of the dog owners who had signed up still wanted a shoot for her dogs. So in her garage, wearing masks and keeping our distance, we photographed all three with the striped backdrop. I made a gallery for her to choose from ...

On September 28, we're throwing our Pizza Party for Dogs at Kriser's Natural Pet in Studio City! We've booked 22 sessions throughout the afternoon and the $39 session fee goes to benefit DR Doghouse Pitbull Rescue.After our five years worth of dogs-eating-ice cream, we've started thinking about dogs-eating-pizza photo shoot since last year but wanted to get "Dogs Vs. Ice Cream" out into the world first. Our launch date for the book was August 1 and we spent some time at signings. And then... we needed something new and fun to do and the pizza idea came to fruition.I amassed the props... brick backdrop (I had to think really long and hard about what kind of background our fake pizzeria ...

It’s dusk in Los Angeles. Palm trees black against a cobalt sky. Horizon glowing like a cigarette’s lit end. You and your dog as restless as the Santa Anas. You want to hit L.A.’s gritty streets to sniff up something new.Here it is . . . Dog Noir – an uncommon photo shoot.Transform into a film-noir character – gumshoe, damsel in distress, gangster, gun moll, femme fatale – and head with your dog to an iconic L.A. film-noir location. Does it look like a 1940s, black & white movie still starring you and your dog? That’s the point, baby.Oh, I've been busy behind the scenes and I'm finally ready to introduce my latest project! It's called Dog Noir ...