Our beautiful picture of the London, England, icon, Big Ben has found a new home on a flip mino camcorder. Cafe Press has a new product. The pocket-sized Flip Video Mino camcorder has a USB arm that flips out and hooks up to a PC or Mac. This charges the battery, and has built-in software to view, edit, and upload video and photos to internet sharing sites.
We are busily adapting our photographs to the new product format. So far we have the following flip mino camcorder designs available: Big Ben, exit graffiti, Irish shamrocks, kitty cat, and several abstract fractals.
As of October 26 we have a section of 25+ flip mino camcorders. Take a look . 
We made lots of great pictures at the AKC dog show today. It was held indoors, but the area was well lit. Derk made digital pictures and I used a fill-flash for pictures on ISO 100 35mm slide film. We also photographed dogs in the exercise area outside.
No photography was allowed inside the show ring. That is understandable because it certainly would distract the dogs, handlers and judges. The show, itself, had 1 photographer with a digital set-up who photographed the winning dog at each judging.
The yorkshire terrier below was photographed with Derk’s digital Nikon.
If you are a photo buyer looking for dog pictures, please let us know. We are going to Palmetto, Florida, this Saturday and Sunday to photograph an AKC event.
Last month we photographed at a non-AKC event at LakeWood Ranch, the Annual Pug Parade. We made some cute pug dog pictures and will upload one below. The dog has been dressed up like a rabbit.
While reviewing our animal pictures inventory we found the cutest terrier dog breed photo. So, we shilouetted it and added the image to our Photo Accents Bird & Animal Gifts section Dog Lover Gifts.
With holiday shopping in full sway we divide our time between reviewing slide film to scan & burn to cds for photo buyers and our stock agencies and making new images for Cafe Press. Of course, photo buyers requsts come first!
The new terrier dog breed image can be seen below on the new short sleeve dark t-shirt available in military green, cardinal red, navy or black. Dark t-shirts are offered in long sleeve t-shirt styles, too. Take a look.
Today we are reviewing inventory for pictures of old person or child walking a dog. Our Orlando stock inventory includes a dog show at Lake Eola. There should be lots of dogs on leashes.
Our San Francisco, California stock inventory includes several 4th of July parades and there were dogs on leashes there, too. The only question is the age of the person holding the leash.
After the appropriate images are located, they’ll go up in a lightbox for the photobuyer.
New animal photographs have been added to our popular Christmas Decorations section of Photo Accents at Cafe Press.
Alligator, tiger, orangutan, elephant, and giant panda have joined eagle, macaw, camel, bull dog, ferret, parrot, giraffe, tropical fish, lizard, lion, and raccoon. Each hanging ornament picture is on high quality porcelain with a ribbon for hanging included.
Hanging ornaments make fun favors for holiday parties, add a special touch to gift-wrapped packages, cool overhead fan pulls, and make unique Christmas tree ornaments. 
Photographing dogs is a delight. Pictures have been made in pet shops, with friends’ pet dogs, and with strangers’ dogs seen on the street.
Photo Tip: Making unstaged pictures requires selection of background. Take care to reduce clutter and unwanted distractions. One set of images was spoiled because the pet store employee holding the dog had a bandaged finger. The store manager insisted that the employee had to hold the dog, so, it couldn’t be avoided.
Dog portraits are not too different from people portraits. We prefer a natural final image, not one with a studio look. So, we rely on natural lighting with only fill flash to get the catch light in the animal’s eye.
Photo Tip: some photographers may not at first notice the importance of getting the catch light in the subject’s eye (animal or human). Take several of your pictures and compare to portraits in a magazine. It is that tiny white spot (catch light) in the eye that gives life to the subject.
Our dog picture inventory provided several favorite animal pictures to use on products at Cafe Press. My current favorite is the sheep dog photographed on a downtown street. The owner was delighted when we asked to make photos. Even the dog enjoyed it!
