Nobody gets the gold medal for love or grief
Why do we insist on ranking love? Your bond with your dog doesn’t need to compete with anyone else’s relationship to be real, profound or life-changing.
Cameras and Canines
A place where dogs, art and unapologetic human–animal connection collide with enough force to shake loose something real.
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I'm done making my work behave
Photography critique should help an image become more fully itself, not force every dog and every story into the same box.
She still gets between me and the anger
Bella always stood between me and anger. Even now, she still reminds me how to carry it.
The technology was new. The impulse was not
The first known image in dog photography is a memorial to one deeply loved. From Maida’s gravestone to Bella’s prints on the wall, the tools change, but the impulse to remember does not.
When the bills come due
Grief does not arrive in equal payments. Sometimes learning to live without the one we love reveals another part of the loss we have not yet paid.
Good dog photography begins with paying attention
We all arrive with a plan. Great dog photography begins the moment we're willing to put it down and listen to the dog instead.
The photograph I don't have
Photography has long assumed the photographer's intention matters most. Dogs taught me another way: listen first, photograph second.
The anticipation is over
We made the painful decision to let Bella go on June 26. My heart is broken.
What the camera makes possible
Photography can't fix grief. But it can create the conditions for continuing bonds, making something worth reaching for when loss becomes real.
Finding the perfect in the imperfect
I've deleted hundreds, maybe thousands, of photos of my girl because they were less than perfect, and I wish I could have them all back.