Category: Life

My parents, obviously jealous of my super awesome dog, Kona, decided they would also get a Brittany puppy. 

…actually, we both decided about 6 months ago that we would and have just been waiting on finding a good non-puppy-mill breeder…   The new happy family.

When not in his parents arms, Cooper seemed a bit unsure of his new surroundings, but from experience, I’m sure within a day or two, he’ll be happy as a… puppy.  ZING!

In anticipation of continued puppy pictures, I am contemplating changing my site name to something along the lines of “puppies’R’us” instead of pretending to focus on wedding photography. Bah. 🙁

Some day I’ll get to posting more wedding, portrait and gear stuff… but that day is not today.  And, really, probably not tomorrow either.  Give me next week perhaps to get some more puppy out of my system. 😉

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I’m having some color profile issues rear their ugly heads, so the lovely Love Sac that Kona is on for some of these pictures is being rendered as pure black.  Unfortunately, I don’t have time to make the needed changes and still get this post up before I need to get on the road…  I’ll edit when I get back, so just look at the doggie. 😉

p.s.  Once a dog has gotten over his curiosity about the camera, it is suprisingly difficult to get them to look into the lens.  I need a noise-clicker thing, those work magic.

Dog, photography, small puppy, small lens cap, image on photograhers blog… it seems right.  I am now realizing this is the only image in this post that doesn’t include the Love Sac.

Do I really need a comment for this one?  Best caption for this image wins a prize – comment below.

This was actually taken on day one of bringing him home.  Colleen perhaps still had tears in her eyes.  Originally thought it was a throw-away but it’s growing on me more and more.

Christa wouldn’t be happy if I didn’t include a picture of her. So here it is. 😉

Rest up little one, rest up… Big life ahead of you.

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… for many reasons…  The typical flowers:

.. have sprung up all over the neighborhood. 

I feel like I should l live somewhere warmer, even though Minnesota is fantastic and I love the fact we have four truly different seasons, just because then I could see these Easter-pastel flowers during Easter-time; it’d be more appropriate. 😉

These flowers are certainly more MY real flower-based sign of spring.  But I think, here in Minnesota, the TRUE sign of spring is this:

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I have had quite a few complaints from people seeing the new puppy for the first time: “I didn’t realize he was so small” and “he looks bigger in the picture on your blog”.

So I made an image during breakfast while he lay at my feet for size comparison:

Sadly, he already seems to be getting bigger and his hair more coarse. 🙁

Colleen is really digging the ‘snuggle up and be cute and little’ phase… being that she is cute and little, I can relate.  I’m trying not to take too many Kona pictures – I’d like the dog to bond with my face, not with a camera lens. 😉

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Decided it was time…. to get a dog!

A really early morning resulted in my being able to suprise my wife with a new dog on mothers day.  It’s a brittany spaniel… same as the dog of my childhood.  We don’t yet have a name, but have narrowed it down to: Kona, Jax, Freckles, Pluto, Bingo or Cosmo.  Kona is in the lead because that’s where we honeymoon’d, but we’ll see…   Votes?

After 5-6 hours of getting used to his new home, he started to pep up.  Quite the runner, considering his legs are about 4 inches long.  Expect to see this blog inundated with dog pictures.  I’ll do my best to keep a reasonable balance; but don’t hold your breath… at least until puppy stage is over. ;0)

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