Holiday Loving at Wagtime and Wylie Wagg

Happy start to the holidays! Here are a few selects from some of my pet store portrait sessions at Wagtime in Mount Vernon, DC and Wylie Wagg in Tysons, VA. They are, in my humble, pet-photographing opinion, two of the best pet stores in the DC metro area and I love working with their clients. I wish I could have included a select from each session because there were all great, but here a few of my favorites:

Chance looking just fine in his santa hat.

Photographing Lilu made me want a French Bulldog in my life!

Tasha did so well at her first photo shoot.

Ah, Pensky, you're are just too much wonderfulness in one animal.

This was my second time photographing both Jack & Buttercup. I still can't tell who is cuter.

Brave Autumn & Aubrey were the only cats of my in-store photo sessions.

Knightly & co--cuteness in family form.

Hannibal Mays has quite a name because he is quite a dog.

Cookie is a prince of a little dog--so fun to photograph in his holiday sweater.

Cat massages--caring or creepy?

My vote is creepy. I could actually only watch this one once because her intensity started to scare me.

Also, check out this lovely assortment of hanukkah photographs.  I feel a little Christian-centric in my holiday photographs of late but I would like to world that I photograph all animals, regardless of race, breed or religion. 

Lily the ring bearer.

Lily holds a meeting with the flower girls to go over last minute details...

Game face on...

Success!

I was so happy to photograph the wedding of Polly and Andrew in Little Rock, AR because there were so many cute things about to day! They choose to serve pies instead of cakes, had saw player perform their processional, and even left out a table of board games for all their friends and family to enjoy during the reception. But my favorite was that they got their tree walker coonhound/beagle mix Lily to serve as the ring bearer. She did such a great job of carrying those rings down the aisle and then sitting patiently during the service.  It was a great coming together of my worlds (pet and wedding photography). 

P.s.--Another amazing thing about Lily is that she helped Polly to recover from being very sick two years ago. Polly, who had just come out of a coma, had to recover her muscle strength to walk. Of course, Lily was insistent that she do this and became Polly's cheerleader and coach. So beautiful!