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Precious Pet Paradise Dog Grooming

by Lucky Red Hen on December 19, 2012

Our pooch was born in the home of a Utah groomer and has been professionally groomed once a month all her seven years. I don’t spend that much money on my own hair, but she can’t take care of it herself and my back isn’t keen on bending over to do it either.

Luckily we have Precious Pet Paradise in American Fork, Utah to take care of her. She’s gone there since we brought her home as a puppy and we missed them while having to take her to a sub-par place in Washington until we got back.

When we tell her we’re going to get her a bath, she gets overly excited, dances around, and runs to potty before hopping in the car. Her heavy breathing during the drive isn’t great (stinky dog breath, ugh) but I deal with it because I am glad she’s so excited instead of scarred/nervous.

I’m glad we love our groomer(s) and they love us. We did a trade, pictures for grooming and this is what I eventually accomplished after trying to get 12 people and 10 dogs to all look at the camera at the same time while having their best smile/expression inside a fluorescent-lit room because it had snowed the night before (sweet run-on sentence, eh?) I didn’t realize I had enough Photoshop skills to pull this off (surprise!)

(pardon the weird pixelated background; compressing for the web must have been confusing)

Here’s the before…

Before Photoshop

…and after adjusting the lighting, coloring, cloning, head-swapping, and background erasing…
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Then a few of them needed head shots for display next to their grooming license. This is Ali with a clients gorgeous dog.
Ali at Precious Pet ParadiseSabrina has her two fur babies in her shot.
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Morgan is holding a shy little one of Cherie’s (another groomer).
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And Elle holds the less timid sweetie of Cherie’s.
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Kristina is cuddling a client’s adorable fluff ball.
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Sarah’s Lincoln is so adorable, like a live teddy bear.
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If you’re in the area and need your dog groomed, try Precious Pet Paradise and tell them Posie’s mom sent you!

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Erika – Redmond High School Senior Headshot

by Lucky Red Hen on November 6, 2009

Ugh! Blogger’s still making my pics look RANK! Honestly they are crisp, clear and delish. I gotta figure out how to fix it or change blogs. Here’s a quickie senior yearbook photo!


And here is her family dog…

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Andrea – Senior Headshot in Woodinville, WA

by Lucky Red Hen on November 4, 2009

Yearbook deadline is either past or quickly approaching in my area, so I’ve had a few seniors contact me scrambling for a headshot. Since my studio is outdoor in Mother Nature land, a quick headshot session (15 minutes or less) is the solution until we can do a full senior portrait session in the Spring when the weather is more cooperative ;) Again, Blogger’s garbling up my images so they look fuzzy and pixelated (grr), but here are four from Andrea’s session. She loved them all (of course), narrowed them down to #2 and #4 then chose #2 for her yearbook shot!




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Alyssa – Senior Portraits in Woodinville, WA

by Lucky Red Hen on October 27, 2009

Blogger is sure being wonky with paragraphs and spacing. So, nothing clever to write today because it’ll just get all jumbled anyway. Alyssa is the daughter of one of my BFF’s (can’t a girl have more than one/a few). My BFF had been begging me for months to come out of haitus and take some pictures… so I obliged. These are my first senior portraits and, for the photog’s, entirely edited using Adobe Lightroom (only used Photoshop to add my logo)! Thanks, Alyssa… you’re GORGEOUS and make my job E-Z :)
[edit] Ugh, the pics look GROSS on here! Not sure why they are distorted and fuzzy :[























P.S. Sorry if you’re bored of seeing these images if you already saw them on Facebook ;)

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Rich a.k.a. Mr. Fox

by Lucky Red Hen on July 1, 2008

We were in need of another picture post. Here’s my friend’s-cousin’s-boyfriend (did I apostrophe those right?), Rich, at Gas Works Park at the beginning of the year (along with HC, Michelle and Ember, who will be posted soon). Rich was incredibly sweet and great to work with. He’s also a bartender, but don’t ask him about flippin’ (like in Cocktail) ;)









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Demetrye a.k.a. H.C.

by Lucky Red Hen on June 21, 2008

It was Demetrye’s birthday recently (“Happy Birthday, H.C.!”), and I missed it :( But here are some pics I took of him to make up for it.

I noticed I picked all the serious looks, but he really DOES have a terrific smile and a great sense of confidence that oozes into the camera. He, his wife, and I became fast friends and I can’t wait until we hang out again (they’re down south in Longview).

I was raised to see people and not the color of their skin, so when I mentioned to Demetrye that I hadn’t taken pictures of a chocolate dude, I didn’t think anything of it until he started laughing profusely. My intent was to warn him that it might take a little longer for me to get my settings right so I wouldn’t under-expose his pictures, not to offend him (his wife is a photographer, so I figured he knew what I was talking about). Luckily, he took it the way I meant it (he has an excellent sense of humor; he laughs at all my jokes – even the lame ones), especially after giving him his new nickname, Hot Chocolate (or H.C. for short).

Here’s some Hot Chocolate in June for ya…



See?! He really DOES have a great smile (and laughs at my lame jokes)…
Demetrye with his beautiful wife, Elena…

EDIT: Here’s Elena’s blog post about these.

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Michelle from P-town

by Lucky Red Hen on June 18, 2008

Hey, it’s MICHELLE :) I met her sister a few years ago, then met her at Karen’s wedding in August. She lives down in Portland, but drove up to Seattle for a bunch of photogs to take her picture. Michelle is a kickin’ model ;) Here are some of my favorites (eek, there are so many)…











This is my fave…
Another fave…


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Colby's Football Album

by Lucky Red Hen on June 16, 2008

Remember Colby? Well, he just graduated from high school and is off to Arizona to play college football mid-July. Incidently, I moved before his senior year so his folks used the school photographer for senior pics. Not to brag, or anything, but they couldn’t bring themselves to use those pics (they just didn’t capture him) and ordered multiples of this one (above) that I took on the back of their car at the airport cell phone waiting lot. Now THAT’S a compliment ;)

Speaking of football… in December I got to attend one of his last H.S. football games at American Fork H.S. Luckily I had my 70-200mm lens so I could get some pics for him and his family (security handed me a Press Pass so I could shoot on the field) and made him an album as his graduation gift. Here are a few of the pages (he’s #6 in the game pics)…

















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