You can't photograph a black dog

Aunt Ellie fosters puppies for a local shelter here. She gets two new ones pretty frequently. Ace and Sid joined us at Easter. Sid is an all black dog. Which brought up the discussion that all black puppies tend to have a harder time getting adopted, because its so hard to photograph them and show them off on the shelters website.

I decided Sid needed a photoshoot. And you know what? Photographing black dogs is pretty difficult! But I like the few I got.

and you gotta love the faces puppies make when they play....

It's time for a Puppy Party!

Haley turned 8 years old, and of course I was there with my camera. My sister gets some of the best parties I've been to for kids. This year was a puppy party, with live puppies and everything.

All the girls got ears, a bandana, and their faces painted. I even got in on the action.





The girls had a ton of activities.

First they frosted their own dog bone


Then they searched for bones in the yard


They set up a big obstacle course for the kids to run around in. My favorite set of shots were taken within a couple seconds of each other. Hanna jumped the bridge, followed by Haley... who was then trailed by Olivia. Olivia didn't play any of the games, really, but she followed all the big girls throughout the course. It was so funny! So I combined the images together.




There was an awesome pinata there too. I asked Karen about blindfolds... apparently thats a baaaaaaaad idea




Olivia loved the headless puppy.


Every girl wanted a picture with the puppy. I'll post the birthday girl.


And my favorite shot was of Haley and Jasmine helping each other read a card. So sweet!