If it were up to me… these girls would be pin-up models for sure! These girls are about 10 weeks old and just waiting for someone to take them home! They started out a little underweight, but they are now doing great! If you are interested in fostering or adopting, please contact me!
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This month our challenge was Acros Black and White Film, window or daylight, and Medium Format. I somehow missed that last part and these are shot with my EOS3 (a 35mm). I was just wanting to play with different lighting, especially some backlighting so here is my results!
Now mosey on over to Sharon Kain’s Blog for more FILM LOVE!!!
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Beautiful horses! Are they yours? Can I come and shoot them too?? These are such gorgeous set I love them all!
Rachel, I just love these back lit images. WOW! And, I love all the of gray tones you were able to capture with this film. Just perfectly beautiful!!
Oh Rachel, these are so YOU! I love them. The backlighting against the horse hair is beautiful. So peaceful.
Backlight was perfect for this film!!! I love that you were able to capture so much texture in all of these. Beautiful!!!
I am starting to really love this film. Cute subjects! Looks great in 35 mm to me.
Great job, Rachel! Love the one of the horse with the fencing around it. And the cat. 
Awe, Rachel, these are gorgeous! I love the 4th one down -the look and the way the hair is illuminated by the sun.
Rachel, these are so lovely!! Absolutely wonderful images
Beautiful! Love the backlight defining the hair around the horse.
Love these, Rachel! The backlighting is just beautiful!!!
I’ve been trying to coordinate with Sabrina’s foster for some time now to photograph this beautiful girl. Well today we finally made it happen. It was dreary and soggy, but Sabrina made it easy! This girl is adoptable through Good Dog Rescue. Contact them or me if interested!
Confession time. Many of you know that I have been shooting pets and rescues for a while now. I often get emailed or pm’ed for advice on “how do I do it?” or “how do you get them to sit still?” Up until now, all of my rescues have been photographed at my clinic (I’m also a veterinarian) in either my studio in the barn or our fenced in exercise area. And although I have shot several dogs who were NOT interested in me at ALL or were scared and nervous, and somehow found a way to get them to engage with me for an image… I always felt like a hypocrite when I would get asked for advice on shooting shelter dogs, in a shelter environment because up til now, I haven’t actually done it myself! Well my friend at Paws Rescue had approached me about going down to our City Shelter to photograph animals. I will admit now… I was nervous about if I would be able to get the same emotions and imagery from those animals at the shelter. Where would we shoot? How would they react?
Well this morning Leigh and I made our first foray down there together with the intention of really just feeling things out and scouting for locations to shoot. We ended up shooting 17 dogs… and I feel like we barely scraped the surface of what potential is down there! I am so glad that I agreed to finally go. Not only do I hope that we can move some of these wonderful animals into homes, but it has given me a new perspective for shooting in that type of environment. I still have a lot to learn myself, but I plan on documenting and compiling some sort of tutorial or instructional material to share with those who want to do the same thing in there area. Honestly… Just going once in a while can potentially help so many animals who are otherwise forgotten. Our City Shelter in particular has been so poorly promoted for animal adoptions and PAWS rescue has pulled SO MANY WONDERFUL animals from there. I will be sharing more of the 17 dogs in the coming days, but for now here are a few to get started.
All these animals are available at the Vicksburg City Shelter on Business 61 North. Adoption Fee $20 636-6982 (The shelter does not vaccinate or spay and neuter, but PAWS Rescue is willing to help with this!) If you have any questions please email me and I can get you in touch with the right people!!
Male German Shorthair Pointer Mix Puppy
Female Terrier Mix Puppy ( mom is down below)
Female Terrier Mix Puppy ( Mom is down below)
Mom of the two Terrier Mix Puppies.
oh my gosh, congratulations on the gig! and, that is the BEST idea. Your beautiful photography really lends itself to the personality of the animals. Great job, inspiring!! If there were an organization around here that needed me, I would do the same!
So this month you have the bonus of TWO posts! Woohoo!
I was such a good girl and got my film in on time! I took these on a foggy Wednesday morning that I had off. By the time I got to most of them the fog had burned off. My goal was to FIND COLOR….I am struck by how much I was able to find in the December! (and yes… that is our pumpkin from October… don’t hate!)
Our Challenge this month was Medium Format, Color Film at 800 ISO or higher and window light. I cheated on the last one. oops.
Shot with “Maude”, my Mamiya 645 Pro using Portra 800
Enjoy!!!
This image is special to me in that two years ago I shot this struggling transplant for my Project 52… which can be seen HERE!!!
Now head on over to my friend, Annie Mae Melton and see what beautiful imagery she has for us this month!!
Rachel, I love the tones in these! The colors are so “true” to life. And the collapsing pumpkins – very cool!
Rachel, I just love the colors you got out of this. And I’m so glad that you left those pumpkins out, they’ve been my favorite images to mark the turn of seasons from fall to winter. Love the close ups too, the bokeh is beautiful. Such a winter solitude about it.
Okay, your pumpkins are all kinds of awesome. The fading color and focus on that particular one really draw me in too.
Love the colours Rachel, and my absolute fave are the pumpkins!
Rachel! The tones in these are so beautiful!!! My favorite is the berries
Still love the pumpkin shot.
Oh, your December colors are very very nice! I think I am in love with those big colorful autumn trees. Beautiful work finding color all around you Rachel!
gorgeous colors. Ohh! I need to pick my fillm cameras back up again. I love shooting with my HOlga and I need to learn my 645 medium format cam!!
The pictures are beautiful. You are doing great work. These gorgeous images will surely help to get these dogs a great home!
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IrishMum - They are way more cute then all the babies in baskets pictures I’m seeing all over the web. Love it!
moi - They are adorable! Thanks for your great post on getting a dog to sit still during a photo shoot.