Northeast Ohio Pet Photography » Fur in Focus Photography

If you haven’t read through all of the “about me” information on my site, you may not know that over the last fifteen or so years, I’ve also worked as a marine mammal trainer and dog trainer. For the last four years, I’ve taught people how to train their dogs using positive reinforcement training techniques....

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Using this tutorial, I played around with painting over a photograph. In this case, I like the results. The process takes alot of patience. Something I’m not always very good at. I could have easily spent a few more hours on this to get it really looking good.

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For Make Art Monday, here’s Teddy looking old-time.

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A fellow pet photographer, Jennie Sloan, asked a question on twitter about how to work with dogs who like to chew off a bit of finger while taking treats. I’m going to share an exercise called “Slow Treat” that offers a great way to teach a finger-grabber some self control. Full credit for this exercise...

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I’m working through the photos that I took at the herding seminar I went to back in April. At the seminar was a small group of super nice people and great dogs. There were some natural herding breeds there – a border collie, a beardie and a gorgeous aussie. Along with my shar-pei mix and...

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