Wanted:
Humans & their dog

Celebrate your dog love with this unique opportunity.

Do you share a bond with your dog that's deeper than most people understand?

Do you want to express this love in a way that's as unique as your relationship?

We want to capture in photos, in our studio, pet parents who enjoy a special bond with their dogs or cats.

For people like you, pets complete the picture.

They love unconditionally and seem to know what you're thinking and what you need.

You love and care for them like you would a son or daughter. They keep you active and keep life interesting. You cannot imagine coming home without that warm welcome. What if there were a way to create those special moment that are unique to you and your fur child?

We are offering an exclusive opportunity to celebrate and preserve the love and connection you have with your pets. Twelve fur children will be selected to participate. If chosen, you will receive a $650 Gift Certificate, covering the session fee and leaving a balance for you to use towards purchasing artwork for your home or office.

👇Apply Here👇

The love and trust of your dog is

PRICELESS

LETS CREATE PORTRAITS OF YOUR FUR CHILD THAT CAPTURE THEIR UNIQUE PERSONALITY 

Together we’ll create fine art portraits of you with your two and four-legged loved ones that capture the essence of your story and create meaningful artwork that’s as unique as you.

  • If selected, we’ll be giving you a credit of $650 to get things started. This covers our $500 session fee, and the balance can be put toward artwork.

  • We are in a street level, dedicated dog photography studio in the beautiful Dimond District of Oakland. We are 1 minute off the 580 and we have reserved parking!

  • We typically photograph on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. We typically book up 6-8 weeks in advance. In order to take advantage of this special offer, you must reserve your date by the end of August. Actual bookings make take place anytime in the next 6 months.

  • Ours is a low-volume, high service business. When we schedule a studio experience, we block out most of a day to assure a relaxed atmosphere. If people fail to give us notice or simply do not turn up for their appointment, then we have lost most of a day’s work when we might have scheduled someone else.

    With that in mind, while your session is covered by your studio credit, we do ask for our standard $200 reservation fee to hold your session date/time. If you decide to purchase any artwork from your session, we will use the $200 as additional credit towards your order. Your $100 reservation fee will be refunded if you decide not to purchase anything. Thank you for understanding.

  • Absolutely! We will guide you from start to finish, beginning with a phone consultation, so that we can provide you and your pets with the best possible photography experience.

Testimonials

"One can see the care and heart she pours into her art and subjects, and it's truly evident when we went through the whole experience. Personable and incredibly heartwarming from the phone interview to the day of photo shoot till the day we received the album of photos. It was a rollercoaster of emotions, and it's the good, fuzzy, facing-the-sun kind of rollercoaster. Ellen made sure our photo vision was realized; she listened with intent and care, thus, making our dogs' photos magical – they're amazing and so beautiful, and still astounds us how she can get such beautiful and natural shots of our hyper corgis. The quality is superb and Ellen is a natural at getting the best out of our pets."⁣

“My photoshoot was hands down one of the best days of my life. She takes a damn good pet photo; what I wasn’t expecting though is how my relationship with my dogs, Chikita Lorraine and Reece LaQuavius, grew exponentially because of this participatory experience and I couldn’t be more grateful. 

To be in session with Ellen Shershow is to be mesmerized, both yourself and your pets, because someone who is both so soft and so kind is so present, gently negotiating with the pets while making animal noises and playing recordings of chirps and meows simultaneously keeping track of equipment, backdrops, props, lighting, your comfort level, and most importantly the comfort level of the fur babies, negotiating with high end treats and never losing focus of capturing the essences of the tiny spirits we are honored to have the responsibility of keeping well and loved. 

“We spent the better part of a Saturday with Ellen, our 3 Senior dogs and 2 adult kids Ellen instantly put our dogs at ease, instinctively knowing how to communicate with them. The experience of the shoot literally brought our family closer together. What blew our minds was how she put together a slide show of the best captured doggie/family photos after the 3 hour photo session. After just an hour of reviewing them. Ellen has an incredible gift of capturing the personalities of our fur babies and actual babies, I was moved to tears by what she created in such a short period of time. We feel incredibly lucky to have found such a gifted, warm, fun photographer who created the artistic images we'll have in our home that will remind us of that very special day we all shared together for many years to come.”

 

 Why Dogs?

Our dogs are so much more than companions.

The dog is slobbery and kooky and soulful and precious. Next to Steve Martin, Jennifer Coolidge, and Sarah Silverman, they are the funniest creatures in the world.

We are enthralled by them, the gentle gaze, the unconditional love, the stories of dog as hero. When I was a teenager, our springer spaniel was my coolest and nicest friend. When I failed algebra, she licked my face. When I was lonely, she curled up in bed with me until I wasn’t lonely anymore.

I work with dogs and their humans. Small dogs, big dogs, diva dogs, shy dogs, funny dogs, happy dogs, unusual dogs. The dogs and the humans and I get together, and together we make pictures.

“J’embrasse mon chien sur la bouche! (I kiss my dog on the mouth.)”
— Unknown