Nothing brings me more joy than my own pets and I hope it's the same for you. I have two cats adopted last June... they were both approximately 3-years old at the time but really, who knows? Anyway, the boys, Mango, the all-black cat, and Kiwi, the tuxedo -- or the Gentlemen House Cats, as we call them -- have, or "had", I should say, because their habits have once again changed -- a tendency to race through the hallway in the wee hours of the morning. So I created a composite of what I imagine their antics are. I can't see them actually playing soccer, but it sures does sound like they are.We adore them, they are full of humor and boy energy and just a lot of fun to have around.So I ...

When I first started out in pet photography, I managed to photograph four tiny dogs, all looking at me at once. I was pretty sure it was a fluke. It might have been, I don't know, but yesterday I had my big score -- one human and six dogs. I say six and a half pairs of eyes because one of them, Quixote, the Xolo, only has one eye.Now I have photographed this tiny pack before including their parrot siblings but I photographed them separately, then composited the eight of them together. The large canvas of them remains one of my all-time favorites to this day. It is jaw-dropping. But when I was at Sharon's house last April, I only had flashes with me that were powerful enough to capture nice ...

Creativity comes out of the strangest places sometimes. I was at a Kelly Clarkson concert the other night and she had giant video screens that projected images depending on the song. One song she sang was called "Nostalgic" and the images had that scratchy, Super 8 film look to them. I thought, wouldn't it look cool if I did something like that with pet photography? Now of course, I could just add a Super 8 texture in Final Cut Pro X or I could even shoot a video with a Super 8 film app. That's a very modern thing to do, that vintage thing.So I decided to try my hand at creating something and it totally ended up completely different than the inspiration.Now this little guy was one of the ...