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Posted On: August 3rd 2026, 03:43 pm
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Photography is a journey, and it is a PROCESS. There is passion at every step, and I know I don’t speak just for myself when I say I wedge as much creativity into each step along the way as I can.
Most of the time we only see the end product: the gorgeous photo. But there is a lot more that goes into each of these photos! Scroll to read some of the back stories on these ones. 👉🏻👉🏻
I researched which cenotes in the area would allow dogs, and my best friend, Azul, was SO nice and called multiple places to ask (en español). We couldn’t find anything reliable that wasn’t also VERY expensive, so we finally decided to hit up a town with an *insane* number of cenotes, and hoped we’d find one that allowed dogs so I could take photos!
This was the first cenote we hit up on that trip (the pool of water was behind me as I photographed this), and it was SO, HOT in this underground cave!! Juju wasn’t allowed in the water, but she was allowed in the cave! Juju was still very young and VERY squirmy, so I couldn’t have gotten any photos of her with Azul’s help! I was also trying out my new flash that I didn’t really know how to use, but it was a cave, so it was DARK down there. Azul ended up taking Juju above ground after not too long because of the stifling heat. I managed to snag just a few photos I could use! (All the while sweating *PROFUSELY.*)
(Heat is a SERIOUS issue with dogs! They have a higher base temperature than humans, and can overheat very easily and very quickly, so this is something I’m constantly monitoring with dogs during summertime shoots.)
When the weather cooperates, the large lake in our valley will sometimes freeze over the surface, resulting in ice that will break up (because of the waves, since it’s a pretty big lake), and then huge chunks of ice will end up pushed into stacks on the shores.
This doesn’t happen every winter, so it means I’m constantly keeping an eye on water conditions at the lake and hoping for these ice stacks! I don’t live right next to it, so this means I have to drive to the lake (20-25 minutes one way) to check the conditions, and am constantly looking at the weather and trying to see if any other photographers in t
Most of the time we only see the end product: the gorgeous photo. But there is a lot more that goes into each of these photos! Scroll to read some of the back stories on these ones. 👉🏻👉🏻
I researched which cenotes in the area would allow dogs, and my best friend, Azul, was SO nice and called multiple places to ask (en español). We couldn’t find anything reliable that wasn’t also VERY expensive, so we finally decided to hit up a town with an *insane* number of cenotes, and hoped we’d find one that allowed dogs so I could take photos!
This was the first cenote we hit up on that trip (the pool of water was behind me as I photographed this), and it was SO, HOT in this underground cave!! Juju wasn’t allowed in the water, but she was allowed in the cave! Juju was still very young and VERY squirmy, so I couldn’t have gotten any photos of her with Azul’s help! I was also trying out my new flash that I didn’t really know how to use, but it was a cave, so it was DARK down there. Azul ended up taking Juju above ground after not too long because of the stifling heat. I managed to snag just a few photos I could use! (All the while sweating *PROFUSELY.*)
(Heat is a SERIOUS issue with dogs! They have a higher base temperature than humans, and can overheat very easily and very quickly, so this is something I’m constantly monitoring with dogs during summertime shoots.)
When the weather cooperates, the large lake in our valley will sometimes freeze over the surface, resulting in ice that will break up (because of the waves, since it’s a pretty big lake), and then huge chunks of ice will end up pushed into stacks on the shores.
This doesn’t happen every winter, so it means I’m constantly keeping an eye on water conditions at the lake and hoping for these ice stacks! I don’t live right next to it, so this means I have to drive to the lake (20-25 minutes one way) to check the conditions, and am constantly looking at the weather and trying to see if any other photographers in t
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2 months agorubyrridgeback
Moose are terrifying! I love them but don’t love encountering them in the wild because they’re so unpredictable. Also totally feel you on how these little things can add up so fast.
2 months agoadventureborealis
Ugh I'm so obsessed! Like the vision behind these is just 🤯🔥 I have one question - for the one of Juju is there a reason you left the artificial light on the top right side? I'd be curious how it would look if you made it look more natural or cut it out entirely. The way you brought out the light in that cave is just incredible - like - thats HORRIBLE lighting so the fact you were able to edit it like this is absolutely mind-blowing
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