Winter provides me some much needed downtime and time to photography people/places/things I don’t normally shoot.  It let’s me explore some creativity, work on personal projects, and try my hand at photographing subjects that are out of the norm for me.  This is one of those session:)  Jen and Dexter recently became a family when Jen adopted him from the  Animal Rescue League of Portland.  And just like any family they needed their portrait taken.  Photographing animals is quite different than photographing humans and Dexter made me work for it.  It took a bit of time to gain his trust, each time I raised the camera to my face he cowered behind Jen – camera shy I guess you could say!  One change of the lens so I could back way off and Dexter and Jen were ready for the camera.

Just like any dog Dexter likes his treats and I am  not ashamed to say we bribed him into a few tricks for the camera.

Dexter has a toy named Piggy – he didn’t really want to give that up:)

Jen – congratulations on the latest addition to your family!

xo,

audra