I feel like I’m in a little series of sorts – about life vs. posed photography. Just recently – casual family portraits and more about day in the life sessions.
Don’t get me wrong. I love weddings. But more and more Ryan and I are enjoying the Not Formal. So today, it’s about dogs and babies. Or pets and kids. We’re flexible.
Can’t we all just agree that dogs and babies – pets and children generally – are the tonic we need these days? Can you count on them to pose? Nope. Can you count on them to want to wear something that they don’t want to wear? Not really. Are both pets and children happier running around naked? Welllllll…. yes, generally. We aren’t endorsing the nude approach, but we do want the photos we take of your pets and your Littles to be honest, real, endearing and fun. There is time for posing your kids in their later years. For now, let’s celebrate asymmetry. Let’s enjoy a little unstructured time and play and let’s get it on film.
That’s our Chelsea (“she said, trying not to sound like a bragger”) catching a ball mid-air. I know….. she’s fab.
Whether it’s Day in the Life photos, pet photos or photos of babies, call us to discuss ideas! Our outdoor portrait garden is a great spot, but there are parks galore that make perfect backdrops.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
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We are dog lovers. We love animals. Our dog Chelsea and cat Sulley were our children before Master Finley hit the planet and they are now his siblings, Chelsea in particular is minder and sellout fan. She’s done. She met him, signed the papers and they are bonded for keeps.
You don’t have to tell us about loving pets, peeps. We soooooooooooooo get it and we relate to clients who want their beloved animals included in holiday cards, engagement portraits, kid and family photos, as part of celebrating rescue centers and pet adoptions. Why leave them out? They are there – day in and day out – in our lives, during meals, giving love, making requests with their voices and paws, comforting us and “doing life” with us. We say: INCLUDE YOUR PETS and we also take portraits just of them, should you want to have a great memory captured for posterity. If it matters to you, it matters to us, you know?
So here’s to our fur babies!
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France“If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am.” – Charles Yu
“I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs. But I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.” – Ron Burgundy
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles Schulz
“When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” – A.D. Williams
“Whoever said that diamonds are a girl’s best friend…never owned a dog.” – Author Unknown
“We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.” – Anthony Douglas Williams“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” – James D. Miles“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.” – Colette
“Surround your children with animals, for they are the teachers with purity of heart.” – Anonymous
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License
All photos are ©2018 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.