Everything below is what it costs and what you get. Every session includes your digital images and prints are always optional. The only thing that changes from one booking to the next is your pet – and working them out is my job, not yours.
Right for: a first look at what I do before committing to the full session — book a Signature within 60 days and £50 comes off it.
Enquire about a MiniRight for: the full story — time enough for the sprint, the still, and everything they do in between.
Enquire about a SignatureFifteen years of photographing cyclists taught me not to expect my subject to stop and pose. Your dog won't either – which suits me perfectly.
Before any session we talk, by phone or email, whichever suits you. I'll ask about your pet's age, their energy, their history and the things that make them them. If there's anything I should know – nervous around strangers, a dodgy hip, a hatred of squirrels that overrides all training – this is where I find out.
It's also where we settle on a location. Haysden Country Park, the woods along the Sussex border, your own garden, your living room. The right place is wherever your pet is most themselves.
The first fifteen minutes of every session look like an ordinary walk, and that's deliberate. I'm watching how your dog moves, what catches their eye, how they check in with you, what their tail does when nothing's being asked of them. Four years in a vet practice taught me to read those signals quickly, and to tell the difference between a pet that's settled and one that's only putting up with me.
Once your pet has decided I'm part of the furniture, the camera comes up. If they want to run, we run – full sprints, water, mud, recall games, whatever brings out their top gear. If they'd rather flop in the long grass and watch the world go by, we shoot that instead. Both are honest, and both make wonderful photographs.
You're part of this too, as much or as little as you like. Some of the best frames are the ones where your dog looks back to find you.
Within two weeks you'll get a private online gallery of fully edited images – colour-graded, retouched where they need it, never filtered into something your pet isn't.
Every session includes your digital files, with fine art prints and wall pieces available on top. I'll help you choose. There's usually one frame the whole house agrees on within about five seconds.
I always like to chat with you about your pet before we get to looking at times and dates. Tell me a bit about what you're hoping for, and I'll reply within a working day.
Prefer to talk? Call or WhatsApp — details on the contact page