Pet Portraits - please post them here

[Brigitte]

June 2010 -- 2 year old english bulldog!

Hi Tammy!

He (She?) looks so cute Nice shot.

[Maritimer1]

What great photos in the past week! They are all so smile-worthy

TC!
Myra

[rpcrowe]

She is just as cute as she looks but, she rules my daughter's household. Annie was a bit less than a year old when I shot this portrait one Christmas Season. We used to breed and show Maltese but notw we only do Maltese rescue. My daughter fell in love with the picture and when I visited her, I brought her Annie as a gift. They are inseparable. More Maltese images at: http://rpcrowe.smugmug.com/Pets/MALT...37131047_fPmnc

[Letrow]

One of my two cairn terriers. This was in our holiday home in the Dordogne (France). The cows (in the background were one of his favorite pastimes, but at this stage he was getting tired (see the yawn?), so ready for picture taking.

[rick55]

Wow! What a cutie, and a beautiful shot.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Hi, Peter;

Tell us the truth: he was bored with the photo session.

Nice shot: way to catch the moment.

Cheers,
Rick

[carregwen]

Cute dog! If you have a lot of backlight, as you do here, using the flash (even just the pop-up) to provide fill-flash would make an enormous difference to the shot. Cut dog. I already said that, didn't I.

[Maritimer1]

What a wonderful photograph of the puppy. Everything is so crisp! Sweet expression.

[Maritimer1]

Willie looks like he is having a great laugh, likely at the expense of the cows! There are quite a few Cairn terriers over here (Nova Scotia). They seem like very intelligent and friendly pups.

Myra

[rick55]

I included her in photo-a-day, but as Wendy pointed out, she's certainly a pet (although she doesn't act like it ).

C&C greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Rick

[Crovean]

My neighbor's dog, Ginger.

[Maritimer1]

Rick, she is beautiful and knows it What a great collar.

At the stable where I board the horse, there is a little kitty named Maddie with similar colouring. She is quite submissive, though, so spends the days outside and the nights in the house where the alpha kitty (Topaz) can't boss her around.

Myra

[Maritimer1]

Another happy, smiling pup. Just starting to show her age, isn't she? Her eyes are still bright, though Very nice photo for the owners.

Myra

[Maritimer1]

Maddie


Topaz



Both were at the SPCA shelter until over one year of age before being adopted by a friend of mine who owns a horse stable. Such a shame so many pets end up in shelters.

Myra

[rick55]

Nice shot, Chriss: she looks like a Disney dog - I'm expecting her to say something.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Thanks, Myra.

Nice shots of Maddie and Topaz. The one of Maddie is classic cat: full focus.

We've read that the coloring is properly called "tortoise and white," since a true calico has the white intermixed with the brown and black. But we always call her calico. Dave has one, too, I've seen here: Socks.

Cheers,
Rick

[Crovean]

Nice shot, Chriss: she looks like a Disney dog - I'm expecting her to say something.

Cheers,
Rick

Thanks Rick! I should PS it with a mask and cape!

[Maritimer1]

For something a bit different in the pet line This is Apollo the Alpaca. I was trying to get a snapshot of his new half brother the other evening when he decided to mug the camera, which was less than two feet away from his face when this was taken. He is one inquisitive fellow!



Canon 40D/nifty-fifty


Myra

[Peter Ryan]

Mack is my 'bitsa' moggy. I got Mack as a kitten from a refuge for strays.

He is now 4 years old, 7.8 kilos and almost a metre long (38 inch to be exact) from nose to tail. He looks like he gives out real attitude but sadly if not for humans he would not survive. He lives on a farm and I am not sure he has caught anything but a cold and we are approaching a mouse plague.

Any suggestions welcome.

[Maritimer1]

Handsome Mack must be a pacifist Peter, what is a "bitsa"? I've figured out that moggy is a cat, but the other word has me puzzled. Bitsy means small, but Mack is not a small kitty!

Myra