I've been working on our spring/summer newsletter, and the very last photo I needed was the one of Alayne and me for the "ranch letter" on page 2. We always have an animal in the photo with us, and we generally pick one that will, well, cooperate! So we thought Madison would be a great candidate for this photo shoot — she's an older, quiet girl, very calm and well-behaved. I figured she'd sit nice and still while our awesome volunteer, Laura W. from Helena, took the photos this past Saturday.
Except … she didn't. I don't know if it was because there were all these new and fascinating smells in the hay barn where we were taking the photos, or whether she just had ants in her pants — but Madison was one squirmy little thing. She was in constant motion the entire time, and we could barely hold on to her. So I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the outtakes from the photo session! In the photo at top, Madison decided she'd rather give me a kiss than look at the camera.
Here it looks like I might be examining her lymph nodes, but I was actually trying to get her to turn her head back towards Laura:
In this one I've completely lost control and Laura caught me in the process of saying, "Wait, she's going airborne on us…"
We also tried having her sit on the ground, but that didn't really work either:
But finally, somewhere among the 75 photos Laura graciously took, there had to be at least one that would work, right? And there was … here's the one we will use in the newsletter:
It wasn't "the" photo I wanted, with her looking at the camera, but I'm old enough and wise enough to realize when it's time to declare victory in animal photography. Madison was even more relieved than we were that the photo shoot was finally over!
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for the ranch in the Shelter Challenge — and you can
vote every day! We're currently in third place, putting us on track to
win $3,000 for the animals. Enter "Rolling Dog Ranch" and our state
postal code,
MT, for Montana, and it will bring up our listing.
Vote in the Shelter Challenge here.
Last
year we won $3,000 in the first round and then won the $20,000 Grand
Prize in the second round, so your votes really do add up and make for
a wonderful gift for the animals here.
Thank you!
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