Mae

Meet Mae, one of the happiest dogs I have ever photographed! One of the things I loved about Mae – is she knows she’s loved – just look at her face while she’s next to her human Momma, so precious!  Mae was adopted from Five Acres Animal Shelter, which coincidentally enough, is exactly why I was photographing her.

I had the pleasure of photographing Mae for the new fundraising program offered at Five Acres Animal Shelter.  It’s part of their campaign drive and you can contribute to them to have your pets photograph taken by yours truly, then you get to choose a photo and a 16×20 of it will hang in the lobby of the new building (btw – the new building is great!   I had a sneak peak yesterday when I delivered the prints and it is amazing for the animals!).  There’s more to the package and details can be found here.   Mae’s human Momma was one of the first generous people to take advantage of this program and her chosen image is among the ones posted below.  Can you guess which one?

 

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A tale of a tail – in pictures

Meet Apollo and his ever wagging tail!


The first five images were taken within three seconds – notice the different position of the tail in each! The first four were actually taken within tenths of a second of one another, then a quick pause for the fifth. The final image was taken two minutes (and many frames) later as I adjusted Apollo for his “star” shot!  All he really wanted, though, was to be loved on.

Apollo is available for adoption at Five Acres Animal Shelter and is one of this month’s David’s Dogs.

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April Backes Buddies

I’m a little late in posting these – but the cats were just so cute this time that I had to take extra!  All are available at Five Acres Animal Shelter.  Also, please vote for Five Acres in the Grow St. Louis Contest – it only takes a few minutes and once you’re all set up – it takes even less time (you can vote once every day).  The money would go to help all of these lovelies and so many more!

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St. Pat’s 2

These images just make me laugh!  My boys are so patient with me.  Brisco will do anything but I did get a tongue lashing from Gus about mid way through that he was not particularly thrilled with the process – so I increased the treat distribution and he played along a little better.  BTW – any “serious” face Brisco may be making is only due to his wanting more treats.  I pay my boys well for posing – especially when I force costumes upon them!  Enjoy!

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  I couldn’t decide which one of these made me laugh the most!   I promise they were highly rewarded for their cooperation.  Well Brisco cooperated and Gus tolerated – all normal!  Enjoy!

 

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Capital Campaign

I’m very honored and proud to be part of this.  The new building at Five Acres Animal Shelter will be wonderful for the pets as well as the people that devote so much of their time there.  This is a fun way to be a part of the new building and help Five Acres work towards its goal of raising money for the next phase which is to re-do the Feline house.  Feel free to contact me with any questions and I’ll let you know what to do!

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Welcome to Hollywood

 

I often photograph at Five Acres Animal Shelter – highlighting certain animals each month as part of the Backes Buddies campaign.  While I was in the feline house this past month photographing Felix, this fine young tabby decided she needed the camera to focus on her!  Must be why she’s named Hollywood!   While she was all over me and the camera when I was photographing Felix – when I did finally turn the camera on her – she kinda froze!   She’s a fun cat with lots of personality and still available at Five Acres Animal Shelter.  I’m betting she would be a star in your home!

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