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A Dog’s<br />

Life<br />

A top pet shooter<br />

tells you how to<br />

capture the amazing<br />

expressiveness of<br />

the canine world.<br />

Photos by Gary Parker;<br />

text by Peter Kolonia<br />

FOR GARY PARKER, few things are<br />

more enjoyable than photographing<br />

man’s best friend. “I’ll shoot any<br />

pup I hear about—entirely for fun,”<br />

says this advertising, editorial, and,<br />

yes, pet photographer from San Jose,<br />

California (catdogphotography.com).<br />

“For the basset puppies you see here,<br />

I drove over 100 miles to meet them,<br />

and it was a blast.” Creating great<br />

pooch portraits, he says, is the same<br />

BASSET<br />

BABIES<br />

“Nothing is<br />

more fun than<br />

puppies,” says<br />

Parker, recalling<br />

these 3-monthold<br />

basset<br />

hounds. He used<br />

a Canon EOS 5D<br />

with 16–35mm<br />

f/2.8L Canon EF<br />

lens; 1/250 sec<br />

at f/4, ISO 320.<br />

52 POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY FEBRUARY <strong>2015</strong>

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