Bloopers

As you can imagine, when photographing pets there are going to be some outtakes. In my quest to find Merlin a forever home, I decided it was time for some new photographs of him. We set out one sunny day last week, and came up with some great photos. But, I think the bloopers may have been even more priceless than the portraits, take a look...

Here's one of the portraits we ended up with...

In order to get these portraits, I pulled out a top-secret weapon: bowtie pasta. Some nice al dente bowtie pasta is one of Merlin's favorite treats, no idea why. Here are some funnies of him trying to catch said pasta...

Leo, the camera hog, was getting jealous of all the attention Merlin was getting. I decided it was time to take a break from portrait-taking and go for a walk in the woods. As I was kneeling down to take a picture of some purple violets (you can just barely see a few in the background) all of a sudden, there's a big giant dog-head in my picture. So I obliged and snapped a few of my big goofball.

And just to make sure I kept the camera turned his way, he whipped out his own secret weapon: my favorite head-tilt pose...

Lastly, we have what reminds me of something you would see on an African Safari. Some wild beast taking down it's prey...but it's only my friendly little guy Clyde trying to herd Leo back towards home.