Florida Pet Photographer – Photohound Dog Photography

If you haven’t seen PLAYGROUND Magazine, you are missing out BIG.  This magazine is beyond awesome down to the last detail in quality and content.  And it’s local!  A lifestyle magazine for Central Florida’s modern parents, it’s full of original features, stories, products, fashion and more.  Lots more, like ADOPTABLE DOGS!!!  I am SO excited to have contributed to this summer’s feature of family first pets.   And, I’m thrilled that PLAYGROUND decided to promote adopting your family pet because there are so many that make great family members.  So, so many.  They all look stunning and I encourage you, as always, to get down to your local shelter and start searching for your soul mate.  Berry, the third dog in, is still available at the SPCA of Central Florida and is a star pet (yep, he’s famous).  Please go meet him and fall in love.

I am honored to have photographed and written the biDOGraphies of these wonderful creatures in the hopes that it will bring at least one person to a shelter or rescue group.  Supporting adoptable pets and shelters is a huge passion of mine and when these guys get a chance to reach more people…in print…in sweet, sweet color it just makes me smile real big. 

THANK YOU PLAYGROUND MAGAZINE for being SO AWESOME!!!  The spread looks amazing!

~ Orlando, FL pet and dog photography ~

I went on a double date with one cool dude last week.  Yep, you heard correctly.  The Hannity’s, as I like to call him, are TWO dogs in ONE.  The best of both worlds.  First, let me introduce “Hannity The Outdoorsman”.

He’s a wonderful adoptee from our very own SPCA of Central Florida.  And, at six months old, he was a charming “lab mix”.  It is very apparent, however, that he has a lot of wonderful Whippet within.  (You like those W’s?  As in, “double you’s”…cause he’s two dogs in one?  Go ahead, roll your eyes at me.  I just did.)

He takes the ‘crazy dog run’ to a new level.  His speed and disregard for impending obstacles makes him the bad boy every girl pines for.  He doesn’t slow down for hills or walls.  Benches or tree limbs?  Watch out.  The photograph below, I had to take because you may notice that the fence bars are bent on the left.  He ran into it one day on a cat chase.  The only thing that hurt was his ego for not catching the sly cat.  I’m pretty sure he was somehow the inspiration for cartoons of yesteryear.  Outside he is an alert acrobat, willing to face any challenge.

Indoors, his Dr. Jekyll, presides.  “Hannity The Homebody” is the other dog I got to know.  A lover, a snuggler, the sugar in his own coffee.  Exercise?  Who needs it?  Running?  I’ve got pillows to burrow in.  Seriously, he LOVES pillows.  No argument there.

He charmed me with his sweetness and nonchalance as he slumbered away in a fort only a child could build.  Okay, I happened to be that child, but he went along with it just fine…dozing off, wondering why we were paying so much attention to his remarkable inactivity.  I wonder if he ever catches the cat in his dreams.

Working with Hannity and his Mom were a pure delight.  All, ‘three’ were rays of sunshine on what later became a thunderous day.  Hannity is the perfect man.  A risk taker and adrenaline junkie who equally partakes in all of the comforts of home, where he can sit back and adore the lady in his life.  Orlando singles scene beware, Hannity is the pick of the litter in this city beautiful.

Thank you Leah, Hannity and Hannity!

- Windermere, FL pet and dog photography -

His personality merits an exclamation point as a permanent part of his name.  Therefore, as his self-proclaimed publicist, I am hereby designating his name as “Scamp!”  (If Prince can have an Ankh symbol as his name and Madonna can be Madonna, Scamp! can surely qualify.)

Anyway, let me just say this, Scamp! is the character of all characters.  Seriously.  He is an absolute riot.  Self deprecating; joker; a courageous coward (yes, it makes sense if you met him); a big dog in a five pound body. He has been renamed by his Grandpa as “Schmendrik” which fits him perfectly.  Schmendrik, a Yiddish word roughly translating to a “foolish person”, is defined more simply by his Grandpa as “pain in the a–”.  LOL!  I see Scamp!/Schmendrik as more of a pain in the funny bone because he’s downright hilarious!

He has a little apple head and these matchstick legs that swat the air as he tries to balance on two of them.  He loves to perform and anything can get him going.  He loves attention.  Hee hee!

And here’s the interesting part.  This Brussels Griffon was found wandering in the middle of a busy intersection during rush hour!!!!  Every attempt was made to try and find his original owner.  A microchip scan finally determined that, well, he had a microchip that had never been registered.  So, alas, he has found his forever home with two siblings whom he loves to antagonize.  Oh, you’re interested in what this soup bowl-sized tyke has for siblings?  Nothing less than a GREAT DANE and a BOXER!  Could it be any funnier?  Anyway, this was Scamp!’s  personal session in which he performed his antics on his chair and made it hard to hold the camera steady through all of the laughter. 

Thank you, Scamp! / Schmendrik, for letting me tire you out and showing me all the chutzpah you clearly posses!

No, you don’t need glasses.  There are people featured below.     A family, in fact.  A family that consists of three amazing dogs (all rescues), two gorgeous (and equally amazing) children, two fabulous (and equally gorgeous) parents…and one stunning (and oh-so-soft) kitty cat.  Whew!  Talk about fun!  While I typically focus on the animal world, because that’s where my cup of tea lies, the Konold’s were an awesome reason to shake it up a little bit.  They are huge animal lovers and are suckers for homeless pets- hee hee.  They are laid-back and fun-loving.  The outdoors is a favorite place of theirs (mine too)!  They are full of life, love and an appreciation for one another.  Does one need any more reasons to want to photograph them?  I didn’t think so.

Thank you ever so much Jodie & Steve (mum and dad), Lily & Elle (sisters), and Scout, Kingston, Murphy, Leland (three doggies and a kitty).  You were all awesome!!