The shyest and most anxious dogs need to get out of the shelter and into a comfortable, loving home as fast as possible. Yet it’s harder for shelters to fully promote them without appealing photos — a conundrum that’s compounded in these days of Covid, when the public can’t browse most shelters in person. Good photographs are essential…

Thank you to everyone who joined us or signed up for the video of my latest Pasadena Humane webinar, Photographing Shelter Dogs, on July 22, 2020! We’re so happy that people from all over the country were able to participate, and will be helping save dogs’ and other animals’ lives with their photography. … This blog will finally be back up and running within days…

Stay tuned… next up will be two biggies: first, a video tutorial on basic photo processing…

As I mentioned in the webinar, this is the #1 tip for better animal photography. If you do nothing else…

Quick tip I forgot to mention in the webinar:

If you really want to capture that big canine smile but your dog’s just not feeling it at the moment…

We got a number of good questions we didn’t have time to get to live, so I’ll be answering them all here… starting with this one…