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Dogs versus cameras
An ongoing series. The dogs are winning.
Dogs are the purest form of love known to mankind. I spend a lot of time photographing mine, and several others belonging to people who haven't yet asked me to stop.
§ Role
Photographer & long-suffering owner
§ Year
Ongoing
A short series, with serious subjects
Three of these dogs are mine. The others belong to friends and family who don’t always realise they’re going to get prints in the mail.
Dogs are the purest form of love known to mankind. They will, however, refuse to sit still until there is a treat offering.
A selection of dogs
Octo, the October-born, staring into the sunset.
Ghost and Octo’s day out.
Of course, Octo listens — when he wants to play fetch.
Muffin the pug, my eldest, devours bananas and loves beer.
Momo, my second child, is a hungry Dudley’s Labrador.
Berlin the chow chow, who will not let me go anywhere.
On photographing dogs
Dogs don’t pose. They negotiate. The 85mm at f/1.8 does most of the work; the treats do the rest. The trick is to stop trying to direct them, and start waiting for the moment they decide you’re worth looking at.
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