Featured in New Barker Magazine
Sunday, January 11, 2015 by Denise Subject MatterChristmas Card Photo | Dogs of Manatee County | Fur Kids | Jayla | Katze | Pet Photography | Pets Are Family | Photographing Cats | Press Mentions
I have wonderful news!
The Dogs of Manatee County Calendar was featured in a 2-page spread in the Winter issue of The New Barker magazine! A very proud moment for me, and I hope all of the calendar volunteers feel the same!
You can check out the article by clicking here, a PDF scan of the spread. It may take a few moments to load.
Have you heard of The New Barker Magazine? The New Barker is Florida’s top dog magazine, a quarterly lifestyle magazine for dogs and their people. Each cover features an original painting by a different Florida artist, this issue (above) showcased caricature artist John LaFree!
I asked Jayla and Katze what they thought, and if they were impressed by seeing my work featured:
Jayla (above) missed the question entirely, and said the magazine was really comfy, and smelled nice.
Thanks Jayla...
And after much deliberation, and pretending to read....
Katze (above) thought, nice, even though there’s no cats!
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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season with your loved ones!
Sebastian, Katze, Jayla, and I had a fantastic time! It was a BIG family Christmas with a house full of company, my favorite! Sebastian’s parents and sister live in Germany, and we don’t get to see them more than once or twice a year, if we’re lucky. This year we were really lucky and they were with us for both Christmas and New Year’s!
Here’s our 2014 Christmas Card photo, my favorite one so far, and the first one to feature Katze and Jayla. Sebastian and I love coming up with creative Christmas card photos, and have been surprising our family with them every year since 2009, the year we married.
When photographing cats, it really helps to know their routine, and use their routine to your advantage. Believe it or not this shot was a piece of cake!
The only part that is photoshopped is Sebastian because we took turns posing. The trick was using a tripod and being careful not to move it. We set up the composition we liked first, knowing we had to build from Jayla’s favorite spot on top of the couch.
There’s a permanent ‘Jayla-size’ indent in the top of it! Katze always wants to sit with me when I get home from work in the evening. That particular evening I made a point NOT to sit down, and like a dependable little shadow she followed me around until I did.
Sebastian posed first, while we waited for Jayla to settle in. Once Jayla saw ‘her human’ laying down, she settled into her spot for the evening catnap. Sebastian and I switch tasks, and I sit on ‘my side’ of the couch with Jayla, and Katze being so impatient practically jumped up with me before I could even get comfortable. She had her own schedule to keep!
Katze and Jayla were sleepy, so I just plopped down the little German hats on their heads and Sebastian snapped a few shots. We were done before they even knew what happened or what I’d done. The whole shoot took perhaps 15 minutes!
Denise
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