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Prepare yourself for a serious visual feast! Weā€™ve just celebrated the Embark Awards, which means we can finally reveal all the well-deserved winners....
Prepare yourself for a serious visual feast! Weā€™ve just celebrated the Emerge Awards, which means we can finally reveal all the well-deserved winners....
It's time to party! Our fun-loving furry friends spend so much of their time engaging in play. Most dogs are always up for a game and capturing these ...
We've made it to the final challenge of Emerge, Shake!
Shaking off water is a distinctly animal thing to do, and also a behaviour that can look super...
We've reached the penultimate challenge of Embark 2025 and this one is called Splash!
There's just something about playing in the water that screams ...
How we love a background brimming with colourful, sparkly bokeh! These bubbles of light create a beautiful effect and add interest and life to a soft,...
Working with natural light, especially on a bright sunny day can be challenging at times. However, the resulting warm and engaging portraits created f...
Whatā€™s better than one dog? Two, of course! Dogs are social creatures and many dog owners have more than one, so at some point, pet photographers will...
Dog photos are most successful when they're engaging, when they show the personality of the dog and make you feel like you're right there with them wh...
Capturing an image with a full reflection is so much fun to do. You can use a mirror image in so many ways that enhance an image and add a little touc...
Featuring flying ears, long flapping tongues, and crazy eyes, these shots are hilarious and always front runners with dog lovers. A must to include in...
Photos of dogs can usually be classified into one of two main categories - portrait, where the dog is still, or action, where the dog is doing somethi...
For many of us pet ownership is a big part of our modern urbanised life. It's become commonplace to see pets out and about in cities and suburbs. Inco...
We're up to challenge number seven of Emerge, Silhouetto. It's another of our personal favourites and it seems we're not alone! Our challengers create...
We're half way through Embark already, can you believe it! So for this challenge it's time to do a little soul searching.
This style of shot can be a...
Since our pets are such unique looking creatures, they will always have particular features that their owners love.
You must have heard people talk a...
One technique that works wonders for dogs who tend to wander around is putting them up on something.
In natural areas, fallen logs make great platfor...
Panning is the technique of following the motion of something as it moves from side to side across the scene in front of you. Using a super fast shutt...
Shooting landscapes was an early photographic love for both Craig and Charlotte!
When photographing your canine friends these days, there's a real st...
They say a home is just a house without a dog (or other pet). Those of us with pets know this very well. If you're reading this, we wouldn't mind bett...
Challenge number three of Embark, Composition 101 is all about centred compositions.
Centring feels very natural and is probably one of the first thi...
For challenge number three of Emerge, we asked our challengers to create images using high key or low key techniques.
The use of high key and low key...
What if we told you there was one tiny little thing that you could do right now that will dramatically change your dog photography images forever. Thi...
This week we provided feedback on all the submissions for the Spaced Out challenge which is the 2nd challenge of our Emerge course, boy did we have so...
