Something fun for ALL photographers!

Though it has been done before, it is still a great idea. The New York Times is promoting an effort to get as many people as possible to all submit a picture taken at exactly the same time all around the world. The moment they have chosen is Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 15:00 hours Coordinated Universal Time or UTC (if you have never heard of that time measure you aren't the only one! It works out to 11:00AM EST here on the East Coast).

You can read more about the effort and how to participate here. I will definitely be participating and I can't wait to see the results.

Dog bites Man('s car...and a cop to boot)!

OK, sometimes my dogs misbehave. Actually, that is what they do most of the time...but at least they've never done anything like this! Thankfully, the officer involved didn't panic and shoot the dog (even when a taser didn't stop him) and the dog has now been returned home.

Does make one wonder what the owners are (or aren't!) feeding this little guy...

The Chinese Shar-pei

I got to spend a fun weekend with the folks at the Berkshire Spur Chinese Shar-pei Club for the specialties show in early November. This was my first time working with this breed and it was fun to see them in action!

One Busy Summer!

It seems like forever since I was last able to post something! I've had a steady stream of clients to keep me busy this summer (not that I'm complaining!). Since my last post I've seen a number of things I wanted to comment on including the passing of the world's oldest dog, the passing of the world's tallest dog, and the discovery of the world's first glow-in-the-dark dog! Who knows what will happen if I take another three months off from blogging...

I'll add some new posts soon updating you on my summer adventures. :)

The "Barking BBQ"!

I spent the last weekend in April at Country Dog training center in Southington, CT. Each year the owner, Cheryl, hosts a big dog play event and fair called the "Barking BBQ". I was on hand to take some portraits for interested owners. Normally I'm in a home with one or two dogs, or at a specialty show with the same breed of dog over and over. It is a rare treat for me to get to work with many different dogs throughout the day.
We saw more than 20 different breeds throughout the day!
Interested in seeing them all? All the images are on www.delvecchiophotography.com under the Pet Portrait Clients gallery.

I had a fun session last month with the Ratti family and their two Goldens, Blaze and Shade. It was obvious that they really loved their dogs.

We did a simple session at their home, some in the yard some inside and tried to capture "a day in the life" of Blaze and Shade. I think we were able to capture all the simple everyday moments. These are the moments that owners often look back on later and say "I wish I had a picture of that!" so it was fun for me to be a part of documenting those memories...

This is our youngest son, Murphy...

If you've always treated your dog like a little furry person, you aren't alone. Not only that, but as a new study reveals, you were probably right to do so.
A recent article on MSNBC previews a new paper by Jozsef Topal, one of the world's leading canine researchers, which argues that the thousands of years of shared environment between man and dog has made the dog a closer model to human behavior than chimpanzees with whom we share 98% of our genes.
"In my view, pet dogs can be regarded in many aspects as 'pre-verbal infants in canine's clothing'" said Topal. The dogs in his study performed at levels equal to a 16-month old child in a series of tests and the article notes that "dogs exhibit all three primary types of social behavior that humans evolved when they split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago".