So I thought I would start my blog “come-back” with a pet portrait session. Why not? After almost 2 months of a hiatus, believe you me, I’ve got photos to share! And since this place is focused on portraits (and more so, PET portraits), let’s start there 🙂

Several (several!) weeks ago, I was up in Duluth on my way to some fun family festivities. While there I was asked to take some photos of the second newest dog to the family. Now, not to get too sidetracked, but our family is filled with a bunch of animal lovers. I did the math the other day and there are 7 of us people and between us 7, we have 7 cats, 6 dogs and 2 horses. That totals 15 animals. To 7 people. Hmm, I may have just sealed the deal on us being Crazy Cat Ladies… Meh – not too far from the truth.

Anyways, this new dog is a truck driving dog. And his name is Tai, which is short for MaiTai. He is a beautiful and young and spunky black lab. But really, what a great name for a pooch: MaiTai. It strikes me as a similar situation to me wanting to name my kitties Charles and Shaw. But that’s a different story.

Pat and Caren: these photos have only scratched the surface of the fun things I want to do! I’m excited to work with him more next time we meet up. Enjoy 🙂

Oh my – Tai has energy! He would run, leap, bark, catch, work for treats and do it all over again. And again. And again.

What fun! Perhaps the next shoot should be at the truck? I feel like that could be fantastically awesome!