Chihuahua Week - Day 2...

Day 2 of Chihuahua Week! Meet Puppy #896, our 12 week old chihuahua mix girl. She's curious, sleeps through the night, is active and loving and she fits in a mailbox. Do you know someone she would be perfect for?

I'm curious and mischievous so I can keep you on your toes. I'm very active and not a barker. I'm I like to sleep either in your bed or in your lap.  I'd love to go home with you.





 I'm the perfect size for going places with you... and, a little dog  mean little piddles.

I'm affectionate and generous with my kisses.

Watching everyone else find a home at our last adoption event.

Dramatic Photos

So I was practicing (Ok playing) with my photo software. The photos that we take and post are to show potential adopters the pup, so we can't do a whole lot of color changing or special effects. But I may have to look into using some of these for some greeting cards.

What do you think?

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Original - hard to improve on this one!

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Amazing how blurring the background made this dog pop!

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This was the crop suggestion - and I think they were right!

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Looks like an old fashioned photo!

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Ohhhh my impressionist!

Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

Different Perspective (10/11/2013)

Last week we had a fall theme for our puppy photos. It worked pretty well, considering that all of the photos were taken inside.

A few months ago the photo below was posted on facebook - stating what an incredible photo.

It is outstanding, and it got me to thinking. What if we posted "alternative" photos of our puppies? Would photos like these have adopters flocking to our event?

Or these?

This perspective is always a good one in my opinion.

Maybe I will stick with the cute puppy with the props.

I also got this one from one of the fosters - the two headed dog!

Had to look twice on that one didn't you :) Hope you enjoyed the photos from a little different perspective.

Friday Fix (8/9/2013) - Help!

By Christy Hess

The last few months we have been busy at Colorado Puppy Rescue (in a great way). Every other week we have a longer/bigger intake that starts later in the evening. This week we found out that we definitely need more than one photographer at an event. I was the bottleneck. But my wrangler hung in there for me and we ended up with some great photos!

48 pups + 630 photos + 3 hours + 3 hours cropping photos for website = 1 late night

We had the Sears Portrait studio for puppies going this week, because as we started pictures, the sky opened up and it started pouring rain. The great thing - the puppies are so darn cute this week that they will have no problem finding homes.

There were some bloopers though - enjoy.

Not looking!

Not looking!

Not Looking - see a pattern here?

Might have overdone it with the props on this one - my fault.

Needed to stretch his legs during the photo shoot

Fetch please!

What's happening over there?

What's happening over there?

Gottal love a shar pei shake

...and the other way.

Work it! The camera loves you!

How's this for a picture for the website.

Looks like the same dog as above - but they were two different dogs, just the same pose.

Watch out, if you don't pose for a picture I am going to make you pose in this bucket

Have a great weekend.