SNAP on Tap is an annual event to help the Spay Neuter Action Project in Madison County, AL. This portrait was the final product of a gift imaging session I donated to last year’s auction. This year’s event will be held on August 15th. For more information, check out snapontap.org.
On Friday, July 10th, I had scheduled some imaging sessions to make kitten portraits for Friends of Rescue (FOR) fosters. But FOR had also scheduled a “kitten play day” at Dana Brown’s Oakwood Avenue studio for earlier in the day… So, I decided to arrive an hour early and photograph as many of the visitors as I could. I am including one portrait of each of the kittens and cats that I met. And don’t miss the cute dog that sneaked in at the last moment. Three of the thirty fosters were adopted, but all others still need homes. If you are searching for a new family member, and you see one (or two) that call out to you, please contact FOR at info@forrescue.net.
We had two Friends of Rescue (FOR) imaging sessions last week. Several pets entered the foster program on Tuesday afternoon, and foster parents met their new wards at Dana Brown’s Oakwood Avenue studio. We also held the usual FOR Friday’s meeting. If you are interested in any of these beauties, you can contact FOR at info@forrescue.net.
Friends of Rescue and I strive to host imaging sessions every Friday afternoon for their foster parents and wards. They take place at Dana Brown’s art studio on Oakwood Avenue in Huntsville, AL. We try to schedule sessions so that nobody waits long for his/her turn, but it does not always work. This is especially true when animals just sprung out of shelters arrive and stay for a short time until their assigned foster parents pick them up. Here is a sample of the subjects I worked with last Friday… and I can’t wait to see who will be in front of my lens this week 🙂
We see the reports all the time: animal shelters in the United States are full of dogs and cats. Some are surrendered by their families. Others are brought in by people that find them on the streets. The sad reality is that once they get there, animals have a short time to find loving homes. Shelter employees and animal rescue groups work tirelessly to improve their odds, but not all of them survive the experience.
As a pet photographer, my job is to create images of animals for their human families. But I also want to help homeless animals find families of their own. Two friends referred me to Friends of Rescue (FOR), a group based in Huntsville, AL. Their volunteers foster dogs and cats in their homes until they are adopted. Dana Brown, a FOR member, invited me to her studio to photograph FOR wards. Our first collaboration was on March 14, 2014, and we had three kittens and four puppies in the room. The collaboration continues: in 2014 I photographed 66 dogs/puppies and 190 cats/kittens. As of May 2015, 48 dogs/puppies and 101 cats/kittens have been added to my FOR portfolio.
If you are ready to add a dog or cat to your house hold, please consider adopting from a shelter or a rescue group. If you cannot adopt, volunteer your time and/or money to help them save lives.