Li Ward photographer of pets and weddings. Fat Orange Cat Studio is a fresh and candid boutique photography service in Boston, Massachusetts.

Here are Gracie and Dewey, a pair of Golden Retriever urbanites living high above the city of Boston. Go ahead and treat your eyes to these golden puffs of fuzzy goodness!

{ couldn’t resist including this stellar view of the South End and Boston’s skyline }

A couple of months ago we had our third and final session with Dasha, the Frenchie I first photographed last year (wow!) when she was about 3 months old. We had a beautiful March day for the shoot, and here are some of my personal favorites.

{ HRH Princess Dasha }

After the session I made a coffee table book from the owner’s favorite images across all three sessions. The owner chose a 10×10 hardcover book.  Up until now I’ve made 8×8’s and I must say, the extra inch all around makes a huge difference! I might have to just offer 10×10’s only from now on.

For the front cover I chose a black and white image from the second session, and for the back I chose another black and white from the first session.

The front cover is more white than black, and the back cover is more black than white – I think it made for a nice juxtaposition, and an echo of her face is also perfectly bisected down the middle.

Here is the first page, with the dates of all three sessions included:

And a spread inside:

And a behind-the-scenes. As usual, it was all hands on deck:

Happy 1st birthday Dasha! Thank you for letting be a part of your first year!

To see more photos of Dasha growing up, here is her first session, and here is her second session. (yowzas, my post-processing was…loud!)

I’m trying to catch up on the photos I took way back in March when we traveled to Seattle to visit my friend Sundara, the one who introduced me to this here crazy world of candid pet photography. We timed our visit juuuuust right, for the house was RIFE with PUPPIES! Puppies in your shoes, puppies in the rafters, puppies everywhere! For Augustus a new playmate was just added, another Cavalier King Charles puppy who is Augustus’s biological half sister. Her name is Lily. Sundara’s own sister also adopted a puppy from the same litter, whom she named Daisy. Lily and Daisy are about 4 months old here and are STINKING CUTE. Except when they tried to eat their own poo.

Here’s Lily, and a little bit of Daisy too.

That’s Daisy ^

Normally I reserve sneak peeks for the Fat Orange Cat Studio Facebook page, but I can’t resist posting a few from my latest shoot here. I just returned from a trip to Seattle, a trip that was mixed with a little business and a whole lot of cute.

Meet Augustus, a 2 year-old Cavalier with his new sister (actual half-sister), Lily who is 4 months old.

And that is Daisy, Lily’s full sister, over for a play-date.

I am so in love with this breed.

There are so many photos that I can’t wait to share. Between Augustus, Lily, Daisy and four cats I had a lot of great material to work with. Stay tuned!

This little charmer’s name is Sonny, and no he is not an animatronic, nor does he take AA batteries and do backflips every fifth bark. What he is is a 3 month old pomapoo, or pooranian, or pomeranian and poodle mix. He is so, so adorable that when Veebs saw Sonny’s photos, he bristled and growled, for he knew he had just seen someone cuter than he, and was jealous.

I met Sonny and his owner at his aunt’s house in Waltham, MA. The photos were to be surprise birthday gift for the owner’s fiance. I will admit that this little bugger really made me work hard for the money. He had me on the ground, under beds, up in the trees to get the shot. How can something so small be so dangerous? Luckily all of his fluffy, edible babiness more than made up for the next morning’s bout of muscle aches and pains.

Here’s Sonny!

BEHIND THE SCENES!

PLUS ONE FUNNY OUTTAKE!

Just like me, Sonny was rather terrified of the lynx and wolf-skin rugs in the library. Yet in spite of himself, Sonny found himself alone inside the room with the lynx and the wolf…couldn’t bring himself to look at them, couldn’t bring himself not to look at them, barked wildly at both, challenged them to a duel…

…and then…