VP Shoots Photography

Happiness is....spending time with your fur kids (aka, dogs)

August 05, 2022 • 5 Comments

Happiness is? I totally believe that our dogs (and probably most dogs) are happiest when they are with their human family. Sure they love the other fur members of the family - but it's different. This first photo of Jimbo posing for a photo with me - one of the few of just the two of us up close (back when I first tried to do a selfie!). We were...

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What kind of dogs are they?

July 29, 2022 • 5 Comments

What Kind of dog do you have? The most often question I have been asked when walking my dogs is "What kind of dogs are they?". I have to admit, for a good while my answer was "One with four legs". I was clueless what exactly my dogs were, other than "My dogs" - shared with 'Pop' also known as Jim. All of our dogs came from the rescue we photograph...

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Tampa's Riverwalk is dog friendly!

July 22, 2022 • 4 Comments

Tampa's Riverwalk was established in 1989 and has become an almost instant success! People love walking along this 2.6 mile walk on the east side of the Hillsborough River through downtown Tampa. It's not only for people, yep, you guessed it - the dogs love it too! There are two dog parks that at least 2 small dog parks along the Riverwalk (one sli...

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Photography session with a large dog named Buck

June 17, 2022 • 7 Comments

Often when photographing rescue dogs, we don’t have much information about the dog(s) we are going to photograph. Sometimes we get a snapshot of the dog, or perhaps a few little personality traits - but we don't know what exactly to expect. The most common thing we run into is ‘shy dogs’. Or a dog that doesn’t do well with meeting new people (there...

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Dog friendly lakes, Western North Carolina

May 27, 2022 • 6 Comments

Ah the joys of being able to go swimming in the water without fear of an alligator! Recently we spent a couple of weeks up in Western North Carolina enjoying the mountains hiking, biking, swimming - outside with nature. As many of you know, we live a few blocks from the Hillsborough River in Temple Terrace, Florida (a small city on the east side o...

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