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gilmour and murphy very autumny shoot ~ {Muskoka, Ontario pet photographer}

28 November 2011 – 10:07 am

you’ve seen these two in their sneak peek earlier on the blog, and i know we’re behind in blogging due to the heavy fall shooting schedule, but here — at last — is their fuller blog entry. these two sorta kinda loved the beaches.

Gilmour owns the strip of beach at his cottage …

and like just about any golden retriever, he loves the water …

add a stick, and this boy is in his element.

then there’s rescue-boy Murphy…

Murphy is almost completely blind but still manages to get around very well …

did i mention how much Gilmour loves his beach?

after some shooting at the cottage, we headed to a different beach … and the colours were glorious …

with lots of running …

and just because his vision is failing, don’t count Murphy out of some running games on the beach!

of course, sticks are always an integral component to any fun afternoon on the beach with a wet dog …

from the beach, we headed to the woods. just check out the brotherly love …

grrrr ….

and that Gilmour sure knows how to have fun with mud …

thanks, Gilmour and Murphy for a memorable shoot.

shadow’s scruffy session ~ {Toronto, Ontario pet photographer}

17 November 2011 – 12:44 pm

if you follow the scruffy dog facebook page, you’ll have already seen several sneak peeks of Shadow, the ever-smiling golden …

i know i’m not the only one thinking: “Squirrel?!”

we had a lot of fun at our session, driving around and finding different locations in which to shoot this lovely boy … from parks, and Unionville station …

mom, Betty, was after a photo of her boy in a very natural setting like a field. alas, those can be hard to find in Toronto, but how about this?

as the sun was setting, i spotted these long grasses behind a restaurant in some plaza just off the highway …

and some fun in Shadow’s backyard …

and his favorite park.

my favorite images from the shoot were taken at the tracks in Unionville …

of course, it was all going great until a wedding photographer and her entrouage elbowed their way onto our location, with no regard for our shoot …

so, we moved on.

we even found a not-quite-ripe soybean field to romp in …

thanks so much for being such a happy boy, Shadow.

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gilmour and murphy’s sneak peek ~ {Kawartha Lakes, Ontario pet photographer}

21 October 2011 – 11:11 am

you saw ‘em on the scruffy dog facebook page first, but for those of you who may not be on facebook, i figured you might want to see these two boys … and for those of you who do follow us on facebook, here are some new sneak peeks from Murphy and Gilmour’s session up in the Kawartha Lakes area …

this is Gilmour …

… and his new rescue brother Murphy.

Murphy has only limited sight in one eye, so for safety’s sake, he had to stay on one of the scruffy dog long lines.

Gilmour, on the other hand, was a wild man …

you’ll be seeing more of these two in the future, once the heavy fall shooting schedule eases up and we can catch up on some of the post work around here.

so stay tuned!

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more puppies ~ {Ontario puppy photographer}

6 October 2011 – 9:18 am

the fall schedule at scruffy dog is crazy packed right now … more than quadrupled booked, and working to make the most of the great weather and the season, memory cards are flying as the cameras seem to be snapping non-stop.

as a result of the heavy shooting schedule, there’s not much time for blogging. if you want to keep up with sneak peeks of the amazing scruffies i’ve been meeting this season, you really need to join the scruffy dog facebook page and get your daily doses of happy.

but in the meantime, i figured i’d throw some adorable puppies at you …

i could intersperse all kinds of text and wonderful verbal descriptions of this little golden team, but honestly, who’s reading this anyway? when confronted with the overwhelming cuteness of puppy butt …

… isn’t all of this text just gobbledygook anyway when framed within such cuteness overload?

little monsters …

and sweet mama, Severn.

hope you enjoyed this litter of furballs as much as i did!

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puppies!! ~ {Ontario pet photographer}

1 October 2011 – 10:38 am

i can’t believe i haven’t put these darlings up on the blog yet! you’ve seen sneak peeks of them on the scruffy dog facebook page, but the mountain of super cute images from this seven-puppy litter made it almost impossible to narrow down the selection for the blog.

so i figured, why not make it two super cute, irresistible blog entries? yup, two. so, don’t adjust your cute-meters and buckle in for the ultimate carnival ride of “awww!” you’ve ever been on!

and there’s almost no point in me writing anything for these entries since you’re all here just for the piles of cuteness anyway, right?

by the time of the shoot, mama Severn had had just about enough of this ravenous, razor-toothed brood …

ah yes, so sweet and innocent …

… not! just look at these beasts at work!

can you believe that a couple of the new puppy owners actually took on two puppies? i think their photos are the latest entries in the Wikipedia definition of: “glutton for punishment”.