I felt naked today. It was a photoless Saturday, and quite frankly it was weird. Don’t get me wrong, i’m not complaining at all, but I felt naked not having any photo jobs lined up. Also, Lindsey was away (and still is!) stagetting today and I was left to fend for myself and keep myself occupied. I wasn’t even left with a list of things to do (am I being tested?)! I’m sure there must be wedding planning things that needed to be done, but I don’t know what they are (again, am I being tested?). I completed a few items on my personal list of things to do, but I basically took the day easy as I know a day like this might not happen again until next year.

Once the evening rolled around I developed a burning urge to press the shutter button. I leashed up Feli, she grabbed her bumble bee, and we set off on a photo safari. I took a total of four photos, and, I wont lie, I deleted two of them. Apparently, I can’t seem to focus on taking photos while ensuring the dog doesn’t get hit by a car or take off chasing some birds (what the hell is with Feli and chasing birds anyway? she’ll never catch one! her “im gonna get you” bark isn’t exactly all that stealthly). After tossing the bumble bee around for a while, I managed to grab three shots of Feli laying down, and then another one walking back home while she carried her chewable and squeaky kill between her jaws.

It’s 11pm right now and i’m just hanging out on the balcony, blogging, drinking tall glass of grape juice, and Feli is asleep on the chair to my left. I’m going to stay here for a bit and observe the other condo tenants as they drunkingly climb out of their cabs after they arrive home from Club Malibu and break up with their girlfriend/boyfriend for the third time this week beneath the lamp next to the Edmonton Journal box.

Feli is asleep right here, twitching and growling in her dreams. It’s to adorable for me to not post a photo. For you photographers, I shot this at ISO 12,800 on the 5D Mark II in pretty much complete darkness other than the glow from my laptop and lights from the street. Amazing.

Here’s to more casual Saturdays. I can’t wait for the next. Thank you for stopping by and goodnight.

I’m a little late with this post – but not too late.  In case you haven’t heard in the news, the Edmonton Humane Society has recently acquired fifty (yes, 50!) small dogs from California. These – i like to call them accessory dogs – are very popular in California, and unfortunately the majority of them end up in the pound. Rather than having them all put down, the EHS took fifty of them under their wing.  They will all be receiving veterinary care, behavioral testing, and then put up for adoption. They will all be adopted very fast here!

I managed to get through photographing thirty of the pooches.  It is amazing to be able to see each dogs own very unique personality. The EHS will easily be able to pair up a pooch with it’s new owner! Here are just a few!  One of these days i’ll be better at getting shots where they are looking at me.

Last Saturday I spent a couple more hours at the Edmonton Humane Society grabbing some shots of the pets up for adoption.  It’s a nice break from the everyday photo routine, and i’m still trying to wrap my head around photographing pets and it’s a great challenge! I had quite a large list of dogs to shoot when I showed up,  but it turned out all of them were adopted except for one – you’ll see her in the photos below.

If you haven’t yet, and you’re looking at a new addition to your family, you should pay the new EHS building a visit! Also, check out the brand spankin’ new EHS website while you’re at it – http://www.edmontonhumanesociety.com

This is Roxy, and she’s absolutely adorable. She was incredibly hard to photograph because all she wanted to do was nuzzle up beside me and have her ears scratched.  She looks big and tough, but she wouldn’t hurt a fly.