Meet Anya.
Anya is an English pointer who spends most of her time living it up in Boston – just a few block away from me too! – but spends those coveted, elusive summers on Cape Cod. This is where we had our photoshoot, in the town of Chatham, MA. Anya greeted me at the door and even though I was let in as if I were expected, I actually thought I had showed up at the wrong place – she was so sleek, tall, and elegant like a greyhound, and decidedly unlike other English pointers I had met before.
And she was quite the model too.
Orange and blue make for a very nice color combo :)
Here we are in one of the guest bedrooms which was all white except for one section of wall. With the late sun just barely coming through the windows, the room was like a giant softbox. I could have shot there all day. All the photos looks so cool and clean and smelling as fresh as apples. It was incidentally, the complete opposite of all those things that day. My greasy forehead might have been complaining, but I wasn’t. It’s nice when summers up here behave like…summer!
Lovely.
Some play time in the yard.
I really wanted those shots above. Anya had to get placed back in that spot a few times, and luckily some noise in the distance held her attention long enough for me to experiment and place myself at the right angle. The sun was still a little too high I think, and the colors are a little crazy. But I still like them, especially that long tendril in the foreground.
More sun flare shots below. The first is technically wrong on all levels, and not exactly consumer-friendly. The shot on the right was more what I was going for. But…I think I might go for these out-of-focus-into-the-sun shots on purpose and more often. Why the heck not. And I feel like I see more deliberately blurry shots in editorial spreads too, especially in anthropologie.com catalogs. Let’s do it.
I like the way her sunlit silhouette seems even shinier and thicker when she’s out of focus. Glow Anya glow!
To close out the shoot, we rolled up our trousers and went clam-digging along the beach. Man, are summers in New England the best or what? I just need to get myself a football, a couple of waterfront houses, and a sailboat/yacht and I’d be all set to Kennedy Compound it UP.
Thank you Anya for a wonderful shoot! I had a great time, and hope you did too. See you back in the city!
A decidedly gorgeous dog, and decidedly gorgeous photos! She looks great against blue (sky, wall, flowers). It’s her color!
I love the shot of Anya shaking herself. She looks just all…weird. Very surreal. Reminds me of Logan’s sister.
I have to agree with you, I really like the blurry sun flaire one. There’s something about it…
Love the way she’s both elegant and goofy, silly and soulful in the pictures. So many winners here, impossible to pick a favorite, but the one in which she looks like she’s going cross-eyed trying to look at that brown spot on the top of her own head made me laugh.