Hailey and Puff

I had a great shoot last week for my amazing friend, featuring her family's lab/shepherd mix, Hailey, and her sister's cat, Puff. I love these animals. Hailey is the sweetest, gentlest dog you've ever met, and she uses that lab background to its FULL advantage. Say what you may - I will NEVER be convinced that there exists a breed of dog that's better at begging than a lab.

Proof? Oh, yes. Here's proof:



I think if her eyes were any more liquid in the middle picture, they'd fall right out of her head.

A few other favorites:



Then it was Puff's turn. Puff is blind, so I was rather surprised to see her outside. You can't really see it in the photos, but she was wearing a harness and leash. She was surprisingly challenging to photograph - not because of the blindness, but because she's a little piggy :) We used treats to get her attention, but then she wouldn't lift her head up from the grass until she'd found every. last. bit. So a lot of my shots looked like this:


Nom nom nom.

Despite not being able to actually see the camera, she totally worked it.



She loves her mama.



Puff was just the warmup - a blind cat is nothing compared to three siblings and three animals in one shot. This is an outtake, but I love that you can instantly see the bond they all have with the animals.



And of course, I couldn't do the shoot without a picture of my friend Lisa and her baby.



Awww. Thanks so much for having me over, Lisa and Jen! And the rest of the clan, people and animals alike :)