Hairy Dog in the Woods!

Kasper and I had a fantastic, muddy, slippy woodland walk today. It’s been at least a week since I took any photographs of the poor dog, or even sat him down for a portrait session. This neglect had to end, so we sallied forth into the north east countryside for a pet portrait session (formerly known as a ‘walk’).

This is what Hairy Dog Photography does best – I love nothing better than to be out with a dog or two capturing your pets’ characters in an environment where they are free to just be themselves. Some dogs thrive on bounding back and forth, others are happy to lope along and sniff everything. It doesn’t matter – a pet session with Hairy Dog will always give you a beautiful set of photographs to look back on, hang on the wall or just to stick on Facebook!

The countryside round Durham really is rather lovely, and despite the weeks of rain, the paths alongside the River Wear were mostly not too heavy. I had packed my 50mm lens for use with the Nikon D300s camera, partly for ease of carrying and partly as I am just in love with my 50mm, f1.4 lens. It’s one of the cheapest ‘pro’ lenses available, weighs very little and gives absolutely stunning results. Most of the photoshoots I carry out for dog portrait clients involve my 70-200mm VR, f2.8 lens. It’s just the ticket for fast, erratically moving dogs but even at its widest aperture, it doesn’t give bokeh like the 50mm f1.4!