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Pet Photography with cute props
February 26, 2021 - This week's blog post is all about the Photographer’s Choice (that's me!)– this week we are focusing on using props when...
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Using depth of field with Pet Photography
February 19, 2021 - Ever wonder why some photographs you can see everything in the background crystal clear and others it’s just a creamy bl...
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Pet Photography with puppy love
February 12, 2021 - Our last few weeks have been filled with puppies! Maxx and Me Pet Rescue has rescued several momma dogs and taken their...
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Using Symmetry in Pet Photography
February 05, 2021 - Symmetry - what is it? In simple terms, this is where the two sides of a photograph are equally balanced if you split it...
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Pet Photography - Using Lensbaby Sweet 50 for dog portraits
January 15, 2021 - This week our pet photography theme is "center" and as I thought about this - I thought, what better time to give the Le...
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Pet Photography - Theme Gift
December 04, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is "Gift" - and as I write this blog post I think of a couple of ways to interpret thi...
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Pet Photography - Shelter
November 06, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is 'shelter' and while I take a lot of photographs of dogs that are being sheltered by...
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Pet Photography - Photographing your pet from above
October 16, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is "shoot from above". For many of us (unless we have really big pets and are very sho...
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Pet Photography - Reflections
September 25, 2020 - This week's pet photography blog theme is 'reflections'. As I thought about this over the course of the last several wee...
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Pet Photography - Action!
September 11, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is "Action" and I have decided to use Abby as our showcase model. Abby loves the water...
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Pet Photography - Rainbow Bridge Day
August 28, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is Rainbow Bridge Day. My fellow pet photographer's that are part of this pet photogra...
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Pet Photography - Theme "BFF" (Best Friends Forever)
August 21, 2020 - This week's theme is "BFF" and in this case, it means "Best Friends Forever" as I have noticed on google that this can h...
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Pet Photography - Filling the Frame
July 31, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is "Fill the Frame". One of the things that make photographs interesting and compellin...
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Mingo Falls, near Cherokee, North Carolina
July 19, 2020 - Our first hike on our recent trip to North Carolina was to Mingo Falls located near Cherokee, North Carolina. Mingo Fall...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Noses"
July 17, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is "Noses". We all know when we are walking our dogs and they catch a scent that they...
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Pet Photography - Theme Water
June 12, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is 'water' - as a family that has done boating, hiking to waterfalls and just hanging...
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Pet Photography - Landscape and your pets
June 05, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is 'landscape' and we are showing some of Florida's green summer weather (right before...
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Pet Photography - Photographer's Choice - Get those end of life portraits while you can
May 29, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is "Photographer's Choice" and I'm touching on a subject that many do not want to. Thu...
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Pet Photography - Black and white photographs
May 22, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is black and white - and most of the time when this kind of theme comes around, I'll l...
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Pet Photography - Early morning 'golden' hour
May 15, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is "Golden Hour" and I've noticed several things about Florida's "sunshine state" weat...
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Pet Photography - before and after photos
April 24, 2020 - This week's photography blog for pets is "before and after". There are many photographs that I just do very simple and m...
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Pet Photography - Senior, older dogs in wide open spaces
April 03, 2020 - Wow, I have got to say that I need to figure out how to find some 'normalcy' our of the crazy world that we are living i...
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Pet Photography using shallow depth of field
March 27, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is 'shallow depth of field'. As we continue to stay at home, and away from most all pe...
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Pet Photography - Theme Colorful - Abby in front of mural
March 20, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is colorful. Last year a local painter decided to paint the building where the restroo...
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Pet Photography - using the rule of thirds to create great images
March 06, 2020 - This week's pet photography theme is about a basic guideline/rule of photography called "the rule of thirds". This is a...
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Shades of Gray - black and white pet photography
February 07, 2020 - This week's theme for pet photography is 'shades of gray' - I decided to use Abby for this week's photographs. What bett...
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Pet Photography with texture
January 31, 2020 - Texture - it's all about the light on your subject, in this case Tracker - a black dog with golden eyes. The lighting in...
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Pet Photography in an urban setting
January 24, 2020 - This week's blog features Nana, a hound dog previously used for breeding who is now with the Maxx and Me Pet Rescue. She...
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Pet Photography - Light it up!
January 17, 2020 - This week it's all about light - 'get lit' is the theme! There are all different types of light that can be used for pet...
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Pet Photography - Telling a story, find a way around the obstacles, just follow me
January 10, 2020 - We recently have been blessed (at least my viewpoint) with some cooler weather! Yay - wearing pants and not sweating! Th...
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Pet Photography - Out takes
December 20, 2019 - This week's pet photography theme gives a 'behind the scenes' look at what happens when rescue dogs have different ideas...
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Pet Photography - Monochrome - black and white
November 01, 2019 - This week has been busy - we photographed 9 dogs on Monday for the rescue (Maxx and Me Pet Rescue - www.maxxandme.org)....
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Pet Photography - Paint it black
October 18, 2019 - This week's pet photography blog theme is "Paint it black" - and for me, this is a look inside what happens when we go t...
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Pet Photography - Into the Woods
October 11, 2019 - This week's pet photography blog circle theme is "Into the Woods". For us, that's a wonderful way to spend our time - we...
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Pet Photography - Season Change
September 20, 2019 - This week the theme is Season Change for our Pet Photography blog - and well, since I live in central Florida, the only...
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Pet Photography - Water
September 13, 2019 - This week the theme for our pet photography blog circle is "water" so I went back into the archives to find one of the p...
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Pet Photography - Theme Soft
August 30, 2019 - This week's pet photography theme is "soft" - and our models this week are 'soft young girls' about 5 months of age - me...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Wood"
August 16, 2019 - This week's photography blog has us joining our pack at Poe Springs Park located in High Springs, Florida. The dogs and...
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Pet Photography - Fill the Frame (with dog!)
July 19, 2019 - This week's theme is 'Fill the Frame' for our pet photography blog circle. We met Axle this week - he is a rescue that i...
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Pet Photography - Doors
June 28, 2019 - This week's Pet Photography theme is "Doors" and I took a little different approach than I originally planned. While vis...
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Pet Photography - Blue sky
June 21, 2019 - This week's pet photography theme is "Blue Sky" and it comes when we here in central Florida have had a ton of rain. No...
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Pet Photography with the color Yellow
May 31, 2019 - Wow, we have been busy doing a lot of dog photography lately as we head into the 'dog days of summer' when a lot of outd...
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Pet Photography - Photographer's Choice
May 10, 2019 - This past week we hosted our first fundraiser for Maxx and Me Pet Rescue (https://www.maxxandme.org) at Advantage Pet Ce...
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Pet Photography - Dogs with People - behind the scenes of a photo shoot
May 03, 2019 - This week's theme for Pet Photography is "Dogs with People". In my blog this week, I took a different approach than many...
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Pet Photography - Play Time
April 26, 2019 - This week the theme is "play time" and with that said, these types of photographs are typically snapshots when I take th...
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Paying the model - Snack time in Pet Photography
April 19, 2019 - This week's theme is 'snack time' which can be rather fun at my household of four dogs. I've taught them all they must s...
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Pet Photography - Removing the Leash
April 12, 2019 - This week's pet photography theme is about removing the leash from the final photograph. As a good portion of my dog pho...
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Pet Photography - Theme Bridge
April 05, 2019 - This week's post is a little late - we have been away in rural Florida where internet isn't very 'available'. Go figure...
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Pet Photography - Theme Portraits
March 22, 2019 - This week's theme for Pet Photography is 'portraits'. If I google the 'official' definition of the word portrait, this i...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Green'
March 15, 2019 - As we approach St. Patrick's Day, this week's Pet Photography theme is "Green". This weekend they will do the annual 'ri...
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Pet Photography - Depth of Field - to blur or not to blur the background
March 08, 2019 - This week's Pet Photography theme is "Depth of Field". That's a photography term, not necessarily a term that everyone i...
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Pet Photography - No Place Like Home
March 01, 2019 - This week's Pet Photography is "No Place Like Home". Now, I personally believe it was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz who ma...
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Pet Photography - Road Warrior
February 22, 2019 - This week's theme, Road Warrior, features Abby who loves to hit the road (actually, all the dogs do). I'm blessed that a...
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Pet Photography - Tale of Tails
February 15, 2019 - This week's pet photography theme is "Tale of Tails". Interesting things about those little dog tails (tales?) Jimbo, my...
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Pet Photography - Composites
February 08, 2019 - This week's theme is "composites" - enter the wonderful world of digital photography and the software that makes composi...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'The Eyes have it'
January 25, 2019 - It's been a while since I have done the pet photography blog circle, but working to get back into the swing as 2019 is n...
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Pet Photography - Theme "In a chair"
December 14, 2018 - As we get close to the end of the year, it's becoming a busy time - but the last month I have been working with some pho...
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Butterfly Rainforest - University of Florida (Gainesville)
December 02, 2018 - If you drive along interstate 75, you're bound to see the billboards that advertise the "Butterfly Rain forest". I've se...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Get Low"
November 30, 2018 - This week’s pet photography theme is “Get Low” – week 48 of the year 2018! Last week I got up on top of a slide and phot...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Get High" (so we went to the playground!)
November 23, 2018 - This week's theme is "Get High" - essentially get higher than your subject - look down at your subject. The dogs and I w...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Bokeh'
November 16, 2018 - This week’s Pet Photography theme is “Bokeh”. This term comes from the Japanese language, which literally translates as...
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Pet Photography - Rescue puppies from the Bahamas
October 27, 2018 - This week Jim and I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph and play with three really friendly and wonderful puppie...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Photographer's Choice"
October 19, 2018 - This week the Pet Photography theme is "Photographer's Choice". This week has been Jimbo's sixth anniversary - so we hav...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Under'
October 12, 2018 - This week's theme for Pet Photography is "Under" - and it presented it's own challenges. This week we have been sick, no...
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Pet Photography - Theme Isolation
October 05, 2018 - As we enter the last quarter of 2018, the beginning of October, our Pet Photography theme is "Isolation". My immediate t...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Natural Light'
September 28, 2018 - This week's Pet Photography theme is "Natural Light". I've been busy with a few other things the last few weeks and have...
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Puppies go boating - who liked it the best?
September 02, 2018 - We took all of the dogs (and puppies) out on our boat for a short river cruise recently. The young ones I kept with harn...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Brown'
August 31, 2018 - This week's pet photography theme is 'brown'. At first I thought of a 'brown dog', then 'brown eyes', then 'brown backgr...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Golden Hour'
August 24, 2018 - This week's pet photography blog is about the 'golden hour'. I guess technically, there are two golden hours each day. I...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Wide Open'
August 10, 2018 - This week's theme for pet photography is 'Wide Open'. At first you may wonder what exactly this means. In the world of p...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Negative Space'
August 03, 2018 - As we begin the month of August, our weekly blog for pets is 'Negative Space'. I will have to say, this is not a concept...
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Canoeing the Little Manatee River with Canoe Outpost
July 15, 2018 - This past week a girlfriend and I along with her two children (one teenager, one middle schooler) took a canoeing trip d...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Head Tilt"
July 13, 2018 - This week's pet photography theme is the 'head tilt' - you know when your pet gives you that curious? questioning? and i...
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Swallowtail Caterpillars
July 08, 2018 - The black swallowtail caterpillars were busy eating the forgotten fennel herb plants in a garden - there were several go...
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Pet Photography - Theme "By a Nose"
July 06, 2018 - This week's theme is "By a Nose" as we have now crossed the halfway point for the year 2018! It's hard to believe that h...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Blue'
June 08, 2018 - It is interesting that this week's theme for pet photography is "Blue" and I've been down with a pretty good cold since...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Black and White'
June 01, 2018 - This week's pet photography theme is black and white. I personally think pets (cats, dogs, etc) that have strong contras...
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Pet Photography - Meet Nina
May 25, 2018 - This week's pet photography blog features Nina who is looking for her forever home. She is a very sweet dog, loves her h...
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Pet Photography - Theme Colorful
May 04, 2018 - This week's pet photography theme is colorful. A google search indicates this word means "having much or varied color; b...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Patterns"
April 27, 2018 - This week's Pet Photography theme is "Patterns". As I think about this particular theme, I think of cats - tabby cats wi...
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Pet Photography - Theme 'Head shots'
April 20, 2018 - As we enter the middle of April, we are showcasing 'head shots' of pets. I doubt they are using them to apply for an act...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Get Close"
April 13, 2018 - This week's pet photography theme is 'get close' so I decided to grab my macro lens and take some close up photographs s...
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Pet Photography - Theme Leading Lines....
April 06, 2018 - As we continue our weekly pet photography blog, this week is the 14th week of 2018! Can you believe how fast this year i...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Re-Processing of older images"
March 23, 2018 - This week's pet photography theme is looking back at older photographs and reprocess them using new and/or different tec...
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Lithia Springs Park on a cool spring day
March 18, 2018 - Continuing on our trek to do the Hillsborough County Hiking Spree, we headed over to Lithia Springs Park this week. Firs...
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Pet Photography - Theme "favorite song"
March 16, 2018 - This week's pet photography theme is "favorite song". I've thought a lot about this and gone through lots of songs that...
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Spring at Trout Creek, Wilderness Park
March 11, 2018 - We all loaded up in the car this week on a beautiful spring day and took our little family over to Trout Creek - one of...
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Pet Photography - Theme Minimalist
March 09, 2018 - This past weekend I noticed another photographer at our local park - it's two blocks from my house and just about every...
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Circle of Life - Spring has sprung here early
March 04, 2018 - It's now the beginning of March - hard to believe that two months have gone by this year already and we will soon be on...
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Pet Photography - Theme Wide Angle
March 02, 2018 - This week's theme is "wide angle" which allows the camera to capture a large amount of the overall scene. One factor to...
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Pet Photography - Theme Silhouettes
February 23, 2018 - As February comes to a close, our pet photography theme this week is "silhouettes". This is a type of photography where...
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Golden Lion Tamarin - Lowry Park Zoo
February 18, 2018 - I love these little "golden lions" - they are small, active, bright colored and a joy to watch at the zoo. They are a sm...
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Pet Photography - Theme "Year of the Dog"
February 16, 2018 - This week's theme is "Year of the Dog" to coincide with the Chinese New Year...."The Dog is the eleventh of all zodiac a...
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Koala Bear at Lowry Park Zoo
February 11, 2018 - Over the years, I've gone back and forth different years with being a member of Lowry Park Zoo. I don't recall who, but...
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Alafia River Rendezvous, 2018 - Florida Frontiersmen
February 04, 2018 - Last weekend the Florida Frontiersmen completed their annual "Alafia River Rendezvous" just south of Bartow, Florida. We...
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Pet Photography - Theme Depth of Field
February 02, 2018 - This week's theme for Pet Photography is "Depth of Field" - this is a concept that is used within photography to control...
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Brooksville Raid, 2018
January 28, 2018 - The annual Brooksville Raid was held the weekend of January 20-21, 2018. It was very nice weather - not to hot, not to c...
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Pet Photography - Theme Fill the Frame!
January 19, 2018 - Pet Photography can be fun and rewarding and I love 'filling the frame' with the pet. I'm often getting really close to...
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Pet Photography - Theme Rule of Thirds
January 12, 2018 - As we begin to get into the swing of the new year, our Pet Photography blog theme this week is "rule of thirds". Let's b...
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Ybor City - it's cold tonight!
January 07, 2018 - Ybor City is a very popular place within the Tampa Bay area. Our photo club did an early evening shoot there on the cold...
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Pet Photography - Theme Blank Slate
January 05, 2018 - As we begin a new year (2018), our theme for Pet Photography this week is "Blank Slate". As many of you know, I voluntee...
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Pet Photography - Theme Favorite Things!
December 29, 2017 - This week's Pet Photography theme is "Favorite Things". As I thought about this for my pets, I realized that this topic...
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Pet Photography - Theme Ugly Sweaters
December 22, 2017 - This week's Pet Photography theme is "Ugly Sweaters". I'm not sure about everyone else, but I don't tend to keep things...
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Christmas in the Wild, Lowry Park Zoo 2017
December 17, 2017 - It's the holiday season and many different Christmas events are occurring in the Tampa Bay area. Last night we joined a...
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Pet Photography - Theme Relaxing
December 15, 2017 - This week's them for our "Project 52" Pet Photography is 'relaxing'. This particular theme brings thoughts of dogs layin...
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Pet Photography - Theme Architecture
December 08, 2017 - This week's Pet Photography theme is 'Architecture'. This particular photograph was taken a couple of years ago on our t...
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Pet Photography - Theme Emotion
December 01, 2017 - This week's Pet Photography theme is 'Emotion'. Dogs show emotion in many different ways from the ears, tail, mouth and...
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Dupont State Forest, High Falls and Triple Falls
November 19, 2017 - Our next stop was an afternoon hike at Dupont State Forest - a very popular place this particular weekday! We arrived at...
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Pet Photography - Theme Sun Flare
November 10, 2017 - This week’s pet theme is “Sun Flare”, a unique technique where the subject has the sun behind them and the camera is poi...
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Pet Photography - Theme Bold Colors
November 03, 2017 - This week’s pet theme is “Bold Colors” so I began my quest with a few google searches to get some ideas on what ‘bold co...
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Pet Photography - Theme Unusual
October 27, 2017 - This week's pet photography theme is 'Unusual' and several ideas come to mind when I think about this but being able to...
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Pet Photography - Theme High Contrast - Black and White
October 13, 2017 - This week's pet photography theme is 'High Contrast' and I decided to share black and white images of dogs. Our guest do...
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Pet Photography - Theme Orange
October 06, 2017 - Week 40 of the Pet Photography Blog Circle - this week's theme is "Orange". I have to admit, my first thought was pumpki...
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Dragonfly - up close
October 01, 2017 - While walking the dogs one evening, I noticed a green dragonfly sitting in the gutter being taken away by ants. I picked...
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Dog Photography - using textures in your photographs
September 29, 2017 - Week 39 of the Pet Photography Blog Circle - this week's theme is "Textures". I can't believe that it is already the 39t...
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Dog Photography - it's all in the eyes
September 22, 2017 - This week’s Pet Photography theme is “Eyes” which in the world of dogs, are typically some shade of brown but there are...
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Cat Photography - It's night time!
September 15, 2017 - This week’s Pet Photography theme is “Night” and I have a different perspective of this word after having lost electrica...
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Dog Portraits - it's all in the details
September 08, 2017 - I'll admit that this week has been a bit of a whirlwind as we returned from a long weekend away and we had Hurricane Irm...
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Dog Photography - The dog's go street smart
September 01, 2017 - This week's Pet Photography blog theme is 'Street'. As I thought of where I might like to do a location shoot with our d...
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Dog Portraits and Reflection
August 25, 2017 - This week's pet photography theme is "Reflection". What comes to your mind when you think of this word? Several thoughts...
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Dog Portraits from multiple perspectives
August 18, 2017 - This week's pet photography theme is "Multiple Perspectives". Great thought went into all the wonderful photographs that...
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VPShoots Happy Dogs - Action photographs of dogs having fun
August 11, 2017 - This week's word pet photography theme is "Happy". I googled to see what "Happy Dog Photographs" look like and I found t...
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Shadows in Pet Photography
July 28, 2017 - This week's word for pet photography is 'shadows' and I've given this one a good bit of thought to see what I wanted to...
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Comic Pet Portrait Moments
July 14, 2017 - Pet Project 52 - A group of pet photographers are given a photo theme each week to incorporate into our pet photographs.
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Pet Photography using beautiful bokeh - the blur behind your subject
July 07, 2017 - Pet Project 52 - while this is a 52 week project, I joined late - so perhaps I will cycle back around to the beginning o...
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