Last Christmas, my mom gave The Hubs and me a gift certificate for a Wag Your Tail Photography photoshoot for our Boston Terrier, Bingley. The gift certificate itself was a full color laminated photo of a gorgeous husky (the photographer’s own pup), personalized with our names! I was super excited at the time but we knew we’d have to wait for warmer weather as Bingley doesn’t have much fur to keep him warm. And then I got the news that I was going to be in a magazine, which came with it’s very own photoshoot! It wasn’t until late August that I actually got around to booking Bingley’s shoot.
The photographer, Christina, was incredibly sweet and helpful, guiding me to choose a good time of day for lighting and weather, and we set a date. I filled out a small questionnaire regarding Bingley’s history and immediately started browsing Amazon.com for doggie bow ties. We had decided on a park very close to our home, so I was really familiar with the area.
The day of the shoot The Hubs and I got all gussied up and headed over to the park. Christina and her husband and “dog wrangler”, John, met us there, and we wasted no time settling down in the meadow on a soft blanket. It was so difficult to NOT have fun, because two adults are repeatedly squeaking a dog toy at you and saying “tweat!” over and over again so Bingley pays attention. I couldn’t help but giggle and my goofy face was captured on more than a few shots:
For 60 minutes we had fun and played with Bingley and enjoyed the outdoors and as you can see, he was having the time of his life. The four of us even managed to get him to sit in a box!
There were lots of tweats (treats) to be had, lots of water drunk and lots of praises for our little Bingley. At the end of the session, he was beat! We parted ways and went home to rest.
In about a week, we received a link to a shared Google Drive that contained so many photos it took us forever to decide which were our favorites! (Hint, none of the ones in this post were our favorites, I’m saving those for Christmas!) Once we finally decided our final few, Christina took back over for retouching (they can edit out LEASHES, people!) and just over a month later we have our finished photos!
Every moment working with Wag Your Tail Photography was fun and stress free! If you live in the Philadelphia area and have a pet you adore I cannot recommend them enough. I really hope you’ll check out the website and her amazing Instagram account!
Seriously, how adorbs is this?! Talk about someone who loves what she does. It shows in her work! I truly hope you’ll check out Christina’s Portfolio, or better yet, book a session, I assure you it will be a memory you’ll cherish. 🙂
What a happy dog!
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That he is!
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What a lovely photoshoot with your furry friend 🙂
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Thank you, we think it was lovely, too!
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I think the picture of you and The Hubs and Bingley with you laughing and Bingley smiling! and The Hubs looking very handsome is the best picture!! It sounds like you guys had a blast!! She sounds like an amazing photographer!!
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We had a great time! I’ll have to send you one of the amazing Christmas cards we’re getting printed!
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If that first photo of you, the hubs, and Bingley smiling so, so widely – and much like a human would do – is
not your absolute favorite,
then, well, I just can’t imagine what we’re in for come Christmas! I can see that first photo being used for
countless ads of many sorts. All would have to have quotes from Bingley though – not you two. Because
really, that dog is human in that photo and “in charge.” I’m sure of it. And he could sell me something. Seriously.
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Oh you’re gonna love the ones we picked! He’s loving every moment of his photo shoot. 🙂
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