About Kim
Photography has been a passion of mine since my childhood days, when I would grab my parents point & shoot 35mm film camera & photography anything that I thought was worth a photo.
This passion continued into high school study & the love never left me.
Over the last couple of years my passion for photography turned to focus on dogs.
At the age of seven my beloved dog Cadel was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. My heart broke with the news. I could not imagine a future without Cadel in it.
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Knowing I did not have a lot of time left I set about trying to take as many good photos of Cadel as I could. I struggled, mostly because I felt I couldn’t show his beautiful personality within a photo, but also because a wound quickly formed on his leg, limiting photography options. I felt like I was racing against time to get a photo that I would be proud to hang on my wall.
After Cadel died I vowed to never find myself in that situation again and began studying dog photography. As I did I realised there must be other people in the same situation I had found myself in - scrambling to get a nice photo of their dog before it was time to say goodbye.
Within the next six months I was hit again with another loss, this time of my dog Zena. At 13 one could argue that she had a good length of life, but with the suddenness of diagnosis and having to say goodbye the next day, I really was overwhelmed. Thankfully this time I had photos of Zena I could print, as she had been acting as my model during my study, but its never enough once they are gone.
This drive to ensure other dog people have photos they would be proud to hang on their wall still drives my photography today. There is nothing like the feeling of creating a piece of artwork of a dog, knowing their human will have it as pride of place for the rest of their life.
