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My Dog Ate My Blog Photoshoot

Portraits of Lisa & Floki at Razor Charlie, Kramerville

Meet Lisa and Floki. Creators of brand new dog blog – My Dog Ate My Blog – and friends of mine. To start the blog off with a bang, we headed off to Razor Charlie in Kramerville, Sandton to check out this dog friendly eatery and shoot some portraits of the pair for their very first post.

I will let Lisa do the talking on her blog but needless to say, Floki was very well behaved and we enjoyed our late lunch in this very cool little restaurant.

I love the opportunity to be really creative with shots, and before it started to rain (really the bane of my life at the moment) I got some fun shots through the window of this cute pair having coffee and then cocktails (it was after 12pm I promise).

As more and more of us have dogs that are integral parts of our lives, it’s really great to see new dog friendly restaurants opening. Sadly, I won’t be able to take any of my four legged team out for lunch because there does need to be a modicum of behavioural skill for lunch with dogs to be enjoyable. My dogs would just embarrass me. Floki is small enough to sit on a chair and well trained enough to add an element of fun to the occasion without the need for 400 tequila shots. If you think I’m exaggerating, please invite me out for lunch with the twins.

Razor Charlie is conveniently situated underneath Katy’s Palace Bar, next to Amatuli Artefacts ( I didn’t go in, my bank balance won’t survive). It’s got funky decor, lovely food and an intimate vibe.

Lisa and I will be giving away a photo shoot and lunch for your and your dog in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned to both our sites and social media to make sure you’re in with a chance of winning.

Floki tried his luck at sharing Mom’s cocktail.

I got educated about metal straws (Lisa pulled a set out of her bag after I took this photo) make sure you read her blog for more about this.

Floki modelled two Friendship Collar designs for the shoot. He’s been in so many of my photos that he knows exactly what to do when I pull out the camera now.

As does his Mom :). We’re working on a few more blog post shoots in the coming weeks, stayed tuned.

Contact me for more information about personal branding and blogger photo shoots.

London Dog Photographer Shoreditch Shoot

This fabulous little dog is Frida the Grenchie. She is half French Bulldog and half Brussels Griffon and is one of the most adorable dogs I’ve ever met.

We got together for a shoot when I was in London recently and had stacks of fun wandering the streets of Shoreditch in search of cool spots to photograph. I love shooting in cities, the potential for unique shots is huge and I could probably have spent all day taking pics but the dogs would have been very bored, plus we ran out of treats quite quickly!!!

Frida is totally unfazed by having her picture taken, her Mom sells dog accessories called Growlees (super fun collar tags with snappy one liners) so she’s quite used to modelling and sat very nicely wherever we put her.

Frida’s Mom, Caroline, on the other hand wasn’t very keen to be in front of the camera, but she needed some pics of the two of them together, it’s always nice to see the person behind a brand so we kept the portraits very informal and of course included Frida.

We were joined on the shoot by Frida’s pal Herbie the Frenchie (you can see his pics here) and we managed to get a few shots of the two of them together which was quite tricky in a busy suburb..

Here you can see the doggies with their Growlees :). Frida is wearing ‘Can I talk to you about Jesus’ and Herbie is wearing ‘Pardon my French’.

I’ll be in the UK again in october, for more information about London shoot bookings, please contact me here.

You can check out Caroline’s website and find out more about Growlees here – www.growlees.com

Cape Town Pop Up Pooch Shoots

Cape Town pop up pooch shoot

How adorable are these pooches?

I met this family during my visit to Cape Town recently, they booked into one of my Pop Up Pooch Shoots at the Charles Cafe in Cape Quarter.

I love shooting in new locations, however I was a bit concerned about how well the weather would play along. Luckily we only had a slight breeze up on the rooftop deck which meant keeping hold of my lighting, but otherwise the shoot went brilliantly.

Cape Town pop up pooch shoot