08/15/2023
A few notes from your tired and kinda cranky show photographer….feel free to share with your friends! 🫢🦄🙃
1. COVId is OVER, STOP asking us to photoshop judges. We will photoshop for a fee. It is right there on our website, no need to ask. But please understand I DO charge a fee, and yes it is higher than the other photographers. I do NOT want to spend my whole life stuck behind a computer photoshopping judges in because you wanted to leave early and not wait for the judge. You wanted to get home to live your life…and please understand, so do I. I have a family I want to spend time with and dogs I want to train. So I am going to set boundaries and stick to them. Yes I am well aware there are extenuating circumstances…which is why I still offer the service at all….but yes, you will pay for MY TIME. (which I can never recover once it is spent.) And remember, it is your choice to have or not have the judge in there….so I respect your decision to go without. But remember, without the judge standing in the original photo, it will not count as an OFFICIAL record of the win.
2. I do love most of you!! You are my family and I appreciate the heck out of you!! But, I am tired and hot and cranky and might snap once in a while…sorry, 🤷♀️ I do still love you!!! ❤️
3. I will gladly take out the podium for your big dogs, of course I understand your Great Dane can’t go up there….but it is heavy and I am tired (see above), so I will probably complain about it. Don’t take it personally, just let me b***h.
4. You do not have to win a ribbon for me to take your photo! You love your dog and so do I, so hop on up there and I’ll gladly snap away!!
5. Handlers, I will eye roll you when you can’t remember your armband number but I don’t really mean it…you have like 45 numbers a day to remember, I honestly don’t expect you to remember all of them, but let me have my eye roll, it makes me feel better and I still love you anyway❤️!!!
Owners, I will eye roll when you can’t remember your armband number and I DO mean it. Come on, you had to remember one number.
6. I only slightly care about your ad deadlines. Remember, those are your deadlines, not mine. If you are NICE to me I will do my best to accommodate you…but again, boundaries. (See above) My time is extremely valuable to me and if you are asking me to drop everything and meet your deadline, it’s going to cost you a premium.
7. For my obedience & rally friends, if you are at a show where there IS an official show photographer (I guarantee if the trial is held with conformation too there WILL be a photographer), stop using your cell phone to take photos with you and the judge. It is clearly printed in the premium that you aren’t allowed to do that, and it’s just not cool. Respect the show photographer and use them for your amazing High in Trial. You worked really hard for that win, why not have an awesome professional photo to go with it.
8. And lastly (for now), please be PATIENT. Please remember that you get to take a break when you are not in the ring….I never get a single break. Hence, tired and cranky. If I am eating my lunch and you come over without a judge, please let me finish my lunch without being rude. Maybe even join me and chat for a moment, I might like the company. (If you have a judge with you I will drop everything because they are way more tired than me!!). If I am not at the stand when you arrive, please just be patient, I probably just went to p*e and I will be right back. (I have actually had a judge SCREAM at me for walking away for 5 minutes to p*e. That was literally the ONLY break I had in a 12 hour shift. Where do you work where you are not allowed to have a single break?? 🤬🤬🤬)
So, the moral of the story is, BE NICE TO YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER and they will probably be nice to you in return.
