Photo of the Week 2023-08-21

 

' Murphy '

 

It is with the heaviest hearts that we said goodbye to our "sweet boy" Murphy just a few short days ago. Such a profound part of our lives and our family for nearly 15 years, his loss has left an unimaginable hole in life. We know he is gone yet we feel him everywhere, expect to see him everywhere ...

I have not felt the urge to create or prepare any new images in the last few days. Actually, feeling a bit lost, I considered letting this Monday pass without publishing a photo of the week. I had nothing that I felt I wanted to share though Lynn and I had begun to think about a collage of Murphy photos for framing. So I sat this morning to go through my images. There is not one photo of him that does not move me, all tug at my heartstrings.

Scrolling along through the library, so many memories were stirred, so many good times, so many tears. It got to the point where I could no longer see clearly so I stopped, for now ... and this image is were I stopped.

:_(

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2011-03-07

... almost done.


I had a portrait session with Murphy recently to try work on my studio shooing some more. He was a cooperative subject for quite a while. Lynn helped me by wrangling him onto the backdrop and keeping him interested.

Murphy is quite responsive to my direction as far as sitting and lying down but it's quite different working with a subject that has no interest in being photographed what so ever. I managed to make several decent images and even managed to get the more traditional image below.


... the best by far in my opinion, is the one opening this blog entry, a more candid shot as the session was ending where the expression says it all.

DJE