It’s a super special thing to get to photograph a fellow dog photographer, and especially in such a magical place as Hawaii! I met Keri Nakahashi at the amazing Shutterhound Conference in Las Vegas last September, which felt like a once in a lifetime experience to get to immerse in dog photography education in person with hundreds of other pet photographers around the world. It was spectacular! Getting to spend time with another dog photographer in person is so great- you speak the same language that few people in the world do and there is an understanding there that you don’t get to experience very often. Getting to actually photograph a fellow dog photographer with their dog is even cooler though.
Keri, her beautiful dog Bella, and I met up for a sunrise session on a beautiful Oahu beach, and mostly had the beach to ourselves. Bella is just a year old and full of dazzle. She was sprinting all around, jumping up for her ball, chasing rocks, finding sticks, and swimming around with such confidence. She kept dropping rocks into the ocean and then looking around all puzzled, trying to find them. Also, I think aliens found her and tried to steal her with their tractor beam, but alas, she bounded away! You’ll see the beam in one of the photos- I’m not sure what actually happened there, as I have never seen it happen before with any of my photos, but aliens are the only logical explanation, right??
After the beach we headed to a hike up to a waterfall in a gorgeous lush forest full of bamboo and incredible banyan trees. I’ll never get over these trees or this marvelous Hawaiian adventure! I cannot wait to go back.
