What If We Saw Them

12/31/2025

I love waking up at dawn and driving solo into the woods to photograph animals, but this year, I’ve also had the joy of partnering with amazing organizations.

I’ve embraced my first full year in Colorado and photographed many individual animals, the ones being rehabilitated and those living out peaceful lives ✨

As an animal photojournalist and writer, I was also challenged this year on multiple assignments with including documenting animal rescue in the LA fires, a project and a collaboration with about Sulala Animal Rescue.

I’ve learned a lot by taking risks, listening to feedback, and keeping the animals centered, which is why I keep doing the work.

Thank you for walking this path alongside me.

May 2026 bring more empty tanks, open cages, and change for the animals we love.

09/08/2025

Pisces Full Moon rising with exciting news! 🌕

My new website is live!

Endless gratitude to Stephanie Tassone for her creativity and skill in bringing this vision to life.

I’ll be making a few small edits in the coming weeks, but the heart of it is ready – and I’d love to share it with you. 🌿✨

Visit here: https://www.dianahulet.com/

Let me know your thoughts!

09/05/2025

I often wonder what the animals might be thinking.
If they know how many people are working to free them from old systems, mindsets, and literal cages.

If they know that when we say collective liberation, we’re also talking about humans—the ones surviving on the fringes, barely seen in their suffering.

I wonder if they can sense our open or closed hearts, kindness, and the hope carried by children who know the truth behind the lives of farmed animals.

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When I visit I can feel the intention behind this sanctuary.

Practices I’ve spent much of my life studying—like aparigraha (non-possessing) and ahimsa (non-harming)—are not just concepts here. They are lived; in the relationships with the animals, in the way conversations unfold with visitors.

And I think the animals must know, somewhere inside, just how fortunate they are to be here.

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The animals in these photographs are living well, as best as they can, in a world that so often turns away from them.

But not here.

Here they are seen. Here they are loved.

This is what we can do until the tide turns, and we ride it out towards the future we imagine.

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07/17/2025

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The marriage of patriotism, religion, and animal exploitation.
Everyone in their wild west finest. The backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. The prayers and bowed heads.

I know why people go to the rodeo. I get it. I’ll admit, even I felt the hair on my arms stand up when the singer hit the high notes in the national anthem.

But behind the rhinestoned Levi’s pockets and family-friendly grandstands, unsheared sheep stand under the hot sun, young steers wait for the most stressful 10 seconds of their day, and children become indoctrinated into traditions that rely on the harm to beings they might otherwise befriend, if circumstances were different.

I couldn’t bring in my camera this time.
Here are a few moments taken with my phone.
I saw and felt much more.
Video footage coming soon.

07/03/2025

🌿🧡 Behind the scenes moments at Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary during a morning photo session with the residents. What a gift to spend time with each of them.

05/01/2025

I really enjoyed my time with Hope! 💗

Spread the Love

04/04/2025

“Producers” and “processing” are words that distance the human psyche from the reality of animals bred for food. A more honest vernacular would disrupt the cognitive dissonance required to raise animals, tend to their needs - perhaps even care for them - only to send them off on a transport truck.

It’s calving season in Colorado. Along the local roads, I see newborn calves with their mothers - a stark contrast to dairy farms, where calves are swiftly taken away so humans can consume their mothers’ milk. On ranches where cows are raised for beef, the young ones will likely stay to replace the older cows, who will be sent to slaughter. And so the cycle continues.

This week, I spoke with a rancher about predator species in the area. While gray wolves have not yet reached this region, he told me that two calves were recently killed by a mountain lion. Calves are easy prey, especially at night.

The ongoing dialogue between ranchers and conservationists is fascinating, as both sides advocate for their needs and values - some even making an effort to understand the other’s perspective. But more often, ranchers see their herds as the priority, and wolves and mountain lions are vilified simply for being who they are. This settler-colonial mindset runs deep. It’s a precarious situation for all.

For now, may we appreciate the gentle nature of these calves and their mothers and hope they live the best lives possible, even as they remain caught in the system of animal agriculture.

Language shapes perception.

What if we saw them? How differently would we speak about their lives, their experiences?

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02/03/2025

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all” - Emily Dickinson

1. Bathed in light a Chihuahua mix watches people pass by his kennel. Once a stray, he has since found his forever home.

2. Kent Schmedes brings one of his two dogs, Theo and Max, to Pasadena Humane for temporary shelter after losing his entire property to the Eaton Fire.

3. Cristina Havel stands beside her horse, Cinco, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center only days after evacuating the fast moving Eaton Fire.

4. Kalli Quigg of sets a trap for a missing cat in a neighborhood destroyed by the Palisades Fire.

5. At the Los Angeles temporary basecamp, Jon Barocas of shares a quiet moment with Moose, a dog recently saved from the international dog meat trade.

02/03/2025

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all” - Emily Dickinson

1. Bathed in light a cream-colored Chihuahua mix watches people pass by his kennel. Once a stray, he has since found his forever home.

2. Kent Schmedes brings one of his two dogs, Theo and Max, to Pasadena Humane for temporary shelter after losing his entire property to the Eaton Fire.

3. Cristina Havel stands beside her horse, Cinco, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center only days after evacuating the fast moving Eaton Fire.

4. Kalli Quigg of sets a trap for a missing cat in a neighborhood destroyed by the Palisades Fire.

5. At the Los Angeles temporary basecamp, Jon Barocas of shares a quiet moment with Moose, a dog recently saved from the international dog meat trade.