apologies for the tardiness … hoping everyone and everydog is recovering from a fabulous holiday season. in the meantime, matea wanted to wish everyone a most happy New Year!
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… may it be filled with many biscuits!
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Internationally-renowned, award-winning animal photographer Illona Haus created scruffy dog photography inc. as the province's premier pet photography business which continues to serve clients across Ontario, the US and the world. Based in Kitchener, Ontario and photographing exclusively animals for fifteen years - both commercially and for private clients - Illona is considered one of the world's leading and most influential pet photographers.
To learn more about the scruffy dog photography, its creator and history, and the scruffy dog experience, feel free to browse through the menu above, and scroll through over a decade's worth of blog entries below!
Please drop me a line! I'd love the opportunity to capture stunning, creative, one-of-a-kind photographic memories of your 4-legged loved ones to treasure in artwork for a lifetime, and show you just what makes the scruffy dog experience second to none.
a couple of weeks ago i had the hairy, muddy, slobbery pleasure of shooting some of the regulars at Country Paws Boarding in London…
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i thought i’d share a few of the crazy faces and unique characters with you.
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i loved this red girl … you know me and hunting dawgs …
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and of course, as in any well-working facility, there ARE rules …
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… but more fun than anything else.
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… and lots of running.
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and finally, a little something extra. i couldn’t help doing some more serious post work on this wonderful blue girl … (at some point i’ll show you the “before”)
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hope you enjoy your gallery, Michelle. i’m looking forward to the Kitchener location shoot.
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… then you’re a weirdo. i mean, seriously, who doesn’t immediately fall in love with those eyes and those ears, that face!
meet cinnamon …
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a perfect example of everything to love about bassets. and she’s not as shy as she looks … in fact, she had her nose into everything, including my lenses, with no hesitation.
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a real poser … although some of her looks gave her the air of a well-versed, been-there-done-that, yet underpaid model.
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you might recognize the location in this shoot from Kiera’s shoot a few weeks ago. Kiera’s owner introduced me to this place in Elmira, and although i have great tromping grounds right here around the scruffy dog studio, this spot offers a great variety of backdrops, including it’s own beach!
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you’ll also note in the previous two photos (and more to come) that i use a long-line for dogs like Cinnamon … 60′ of light mountaineering rope with a light caribiner. with a few instructions to owners, this line allows us some freedom and action shots without taking the risk of dogs like our darling basset here picking up a scent and tearing off. for images ordered, i always remove the long-line in post, but for purposes of the blog, it’s too much work … so forgive its presence here.
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don’t you just love those ears??
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did someone say something about ears? 😉
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did i tell you Cinnamon had huge ears?
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thanks, Cinnamon, for a wonderful shoot. and thanks Denis and Nat for bringing your girl to Waterloo for me to shoot. i hope you enjoy her huge gallery.
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We had a Basset for 14 years. Her name was Bags. She did exactly what she wanted for 14 years and we loved her with a passion. After that, we had two Bloodhounds. Male named Memphis and female named Beulah. Amazing dogs and quite a challenge. Now we have 1 Standard Poodle named Juliet. We had Romeo, but he passed away at 12, 1 1/2 years ago. Juliet is 11 and as spry as a puppy. Love your shots.ReplyCancel
illona once again you have captured the essence of the dog! Cinnamon is such a perfect little basset hound. We adopted a huge 5 year old basset hound when i was in high school. these photos bring back fond memories of our Morgan, thanks !!!!
and who couldn’t fall in love with those ears!!!!!!??????ReplyCancelExcellent selection on the blog. You show Cinnamon off so well. Nat and I are narrowing down our choices from all the great images you took; and such a selection at that. Natalie’s Mom loves them too, since she is like Cinnamon’s second Mom.
For those just finding Scruffy Dog Photography, I highly recommend a photo shoot with Illona. As you can see above she does excellent work, and that is only a small selection of what we can choose from. If you’ve been thinking about photos, book now.ReplyCancel
Scout and FreyjaMomma keeps trying to get us to do that but we just can’t sit still – we want our cookie RIGHT AWAY! You are a furry smart pooch, yes, you are!
Valerie BeyerGreat pic Ilona 🙂 Thanks for the good wishes — which we send right back at ya!
Just wanted to let you know that the picture of Ashley was a huge hit — thank you for taking such a wonderful picture of her.
Al the VERY best of the New Year.
Cheers,