Archive for the ‘Pets’ Category

The Easter Bunny will be waiting for your Pet to visit

Bring your pet to Carnation City Mall in Alliance to be photographed with the Easter Bunny!

As we have already mentioned, we are in the process of photographing our Easter Bunny pictures for this year. While we absolutely love photographing your sweet children, who is to say that Easter Bunny pictures are just for kids? Definitely not us! That’s why we will be hosting a Pet Day Saturday, April 16 at the Carnation City Mall in Alliance. The Bunny will be available from 11-7 to pose with your favorite pets and provide you with some truly adorable Easter images.  Pets can also visit Thursday, April 21 and Friday April 22 from 4pm – 8pm.

We know that there is a wide variety of pet types out there, and we love photographing all of them, we do have to ask that in this instance you please limit the pets brought in to domestic pets only. We are shooting these photos in a mall, and have restrictions on space. Also, please remember that there is a person inside of the bunny suit who in some cases will need to hold the animals.

Mall restrictions also require that you please use the main mall entrances beside JC Penney and beside Elder Beerman. Please do not bring pets through any stores, or through the food court. Nicol Photography can not be held responsible for any damages done if these guidelines are not followed.

We look forward to seeing you and your pets tomorrow and capturing their images for Spring 2011. Don’t be selfish- bring along your friends and their favorite pets also. The more the merrier!

For more information about pet day,  use our contact us page or call Carnation City Mall at 330-821-4447.

We had a pack of dogs, like a gaggle of geese, except these little guys were quiet. I actually think that I was putting them asleep.

Following some of our friends on Facebook, we noticed that 5 puppies were born a few weeks ago, and they were so cute – so we thought that it would be great for them to come and visit our studio. They were cute, and nosey, tired, yawning (its even catching when a puppy yawns, and I couldn’t help myself) and like young children were fun to photograph. A moving target is always offers more of a challenge then a target that just sits there.

Thank you to Chrissy, Rick, Mitchell and Madison for bringing in their puppies for their first photo shoot.  I hope that you enjoy the pictures posted here, and we will have more for you to view in a week or so.

It’s the Stark County Fair week – and we have a booth set up to display our portraits and to answer any questions that you may have about any type of photography.

Stop by our booth and purchase a gift certificate, and we will double the amount right on the spot. It’s like magic, except we tell the computer what to do.

Take a look at another special that we have going on. If you are a senior, need a family session or have some kiddos that need their school portraits done, we can help.

Both of these specials are good for the week of the Fair. August 30-September 6, 2010.

If you cannot make it to the Fair, then give us a call at our studio. Don’t worry if we do not answer our phones. Leave us a message and we will get back to you after the Fair is over, and we will honor this special – but you must call and leave us your information for us to call you back. OR you can send us an email and we will get back to you ASAP. Click Here for our contact form.

Our family pet, a Kairn Terrier (like Toto from the Wizard of Oz) was getting jealous of us photographing other dogs, so we had to bring him to the studio for his model session.

He did very well in front of the camera. The only problem that we had was that he would not smile for us on command. My fellow photographers have commented that getting their children to pose for their portraits is difficult because they use them so often as models – as we do with our children, but I did not know that this would also be an issue with our family pet.

We had this little fellow in our studio to take some baby pictures. Unlike human babies that are extremely inactive, sleep – eat – and (something else), puppies are full of energy and can give anyone a work out trying to keep them in one spot. Next time I will have to see if meaty dog treats will do the trick, as pleading with the puppy to sit still did not do the trick.

Even with an active little puppy, we managed to capture some really cute images as well as some that were great for my blooper folder.

OK – so I am a little late in posting this – but then again, I did not have this cute image to post before July 4th.

Coming back from our family vacation, which was in Nova Scotia, Canada, we had the pleasure of capturing Jazzy’s portraits, with her many clothing changes. She was such a great subject to photograph –  a little nervous upfront, but I knew that she was getting into this picture taking thing because it almost looked like she was posing on purpose. This image of Jazzy looks like she is extremely relaxed and looking like she needs to be served a doggy treat because she did so well during her photo session.

Beverly and Jazzy – thank you for coming to our studio.

Tuesday I met Henry, the English Bull Terrier. What a great dog and friendly – just watch out for the wagging tail.

He did such a great job at coming in to a strange place, have to sit still – and then get his picture taken. For a one and half year old dog, I think he did VERY well.

Here is Henry.

What a great visit from one of our new furry friends.

Samson is a 2 year old rescue dog that Amy adopted. He’s a little large as a German Shepard, but he is so tame and loves his treats. I had a fun time capturing images of him, and the best thing is that Amy loved the images. Like many 2 year olds he had a lot of energy and could hardly sit for long to have an image taken. No big deal – this is why we take our time to capture great images of pets. We understand that they can be nervous in front of strangers pointing a strange thing at them.

I just added a new item on the “must have” for studio items – nice meaty dog treats. Amy had these with her, so we were covered – I was so thankful for this. Like human models, furry models like payment too – just in the form of doggy treats. In Samson’s case – Trail Bologna.  As you can see it’s HARD work being a Super Pet Model.

Amy – thank you for allowing us to photograph your furry friend.