The first blog from Dogtown Studio

    This is page one of what I hope will be an interesting and informative look behind the scenes at Dogtown Studio. It will act as a diary, platform for discussion, message board and an utterly self indulgent vehicle for the exhibition of all those extra things that happen on a photo shoot but are never seen.

Baxter after a trim

    It is often the case that the best work remains hidden on a desktop or deep inside a hard drive where it will languish until such time that it is revisited. In the old days it was much more likely that you would come across the work again because it would actually exist as hard copy. Somewhere in a drawer or file. In order to access a specific piece of work it would be necessary to see at least some of the original contact sheet and therefore rediscover something interesting. Nowadays, with keywording and all manner of other sophisticated ways of accessing files it is entirely possible to completely forget that images exist. This blog will give that extra, less polished and often more interesting stuff a chance to be seen.

  It seems perfectly logical to open this blog up with a picture of my border terrier Baxter. He is the reason I started photographing animals in the first place. He is handsome, photogenic and incredibly patient. The wig in the above picture was made of his own hair after we stripped him and he sat like this for ages until we got the shot. I'm sure he will appear in future blogs in this site.