Rooney, Kim and David - San Francisco Pet Photographer

I had to think a bit when I was ordering the names in the title of this post, but in the end, it was really all about Rooney. He was the star of the show.

Kim contacted me after adopting Rooney from my shelter (shoutout to ACC - love ya!), because she'd fallen in love and wanted some photos to commemorate Rooney's first few weeks in his forever home.

Let me tell you, she didn't have to twist my leg all that much to make me say yes.

Now Rooney just so happens to be the cutest, scruffiest little fox-like mutt I've had the pleasure of clapping eyes on, and although he wasn't one to sit still for the camera much, we still got some great shots together of Mr Rooney doing his thing.

Nose to the ground. That's very important.

Aren't they a good looking family??

Oh yeah. Give me the ball. Gotta have that ball.

Time to play hide and seek in the grass.

And then tug of war.

I just love that face!

Thanks Kim and David for sharing little Rooney with me - what a fun session!

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Pet Pride Day 2013

These photos are a bit overdue - they've been languishing on my hard drives since October of last year, and I still love some of the costumes, so I thought I'd share them with you.

Pet Pride day is an annual San Francisco event that takes place in Golden Gate Park usually close to Halloween. People are encouraged to bring along all kinds of pets and to costume them as creatively as they can. As you can see, there are a lot of very patient dogs in this city!

Of course, not only dogs can get dressed up . . . .

And some other pets made appearances.

I just loved the chinchillas - they were so soft!

And of course I've always been a big fan of rats.

This animal was not up for adoption, sadly . . .

Legally Blonde! I loved this costume.

The cutest cowboy there . . .

Film Friday - A Very Damp Day and a Roll of Velvia

David had recently acquired a new (old) Hasselblad, and so we set up a playdate for the Hasselblad to meet the Bronica. Unbeknownst to us, we scheduled it on what was to be the wettest day of 2014, but since we didn't want to be wusses, we wandered around the Tenderloin in the rain, taking photographs very slowly.

And it was a lot of fun. We had water running down our faces, I protected my camera in my jacket, people looked at us like we were crazy, and we had a couple of good conversations with folks on the street.

I can't say that I'm absolutely in love with any of these photographs, but it was my first roll of Velvia, and at least the exposures all appear to be pretty decent. (There are 11 photos here instead of the 12 there should be because my camera fired once by accident. I hate when that happens!)

Yeah, it was really rainy. Here's David with his Hasselblad.

Some red. Velvia does do red nicely, I've got to say.

Oh, these pigeons! I really wanted this shot. I even made David scare the pigeons so they would all fly away at once. But shooting a 50 ISO film on a dark rainy day makes for some pretty slow shutter speeds. So it's not in focus. Dang!

This guy was pretty awesome.

And then I went home and got warm and dry, which felt amazingly wonderful.

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