Blog Hold

Hello...I have not been updating this blog at all and I realistically should have probably just pulled it down, but I will be most likely creating a new blog on my Atort Photography website sooner than later which will be my current blog in which I update regularly. I will keep this up and try to keep it semi-current too. Thanks! @nthony

Coast to Coast AM Radio Show

If you are not familiar with this radio show, you should in my opinion. I have been listening to this for many years now pretty religiously and they posted some of the images I took of my time with Faith on their homepage of their website for people to see. It is a cool show like that which really lets you participate and take part in the show. You can see it on the Coasttocoastam website under Listener's Emails and can see more there.  

Faith Chicago Visit

The other week I was fortunate to meet and spend some quality time with an amazing dog named Faith. Many may already know of her or have seen her on television, but she is truly a beautiful spirit. If you do not know her story, you can read more about it and hear the full story on faiththedog.net. She was born with deformities and was the only pup with deformities to make it and learned to walk upright with some unconditional love and support from her family. She is now five and her guardian Jude has hired me as her photographer and spent time in the city taking photos and wanted to share one. This was my first time meeting Faith and the day was an amazing experience from beginning to end and am still riding the high. It was awesome to see what type of lasting impression she has on everyone and made her mark on me. She really is a celebrity for many reasons other than the obvious and has made appearances on Oprah, Montel, talked about on Letterman, in the last issue of People, etc. and people definitely notice in amazement young, old, black, white...it does not matter! She also is an an honorary Sergeant in the army and goes to Walter Reed and other military hospitals for moral boosts and plans on doing the same in Iraq in the near future and also works as a therapy dog so can go anywhere....and I mean anywhere! She was the ONLY dog I have ever seen walking in Millennium Park in Chicago and she was owning it! We can all learn something from this little girl named Faith!

Chicagoland Tails Style Shoot

It has been hard since Ruger has moved on and is still tough but have no choice but to continue on with him always in my heart. I was hired by Chicagoland Tails Magazine to shoot some product shots for their style issue coming up and it was a lot of fun and pretty hectic with all the doggies and kitties that were there waiting to model for us. Here is one of the shots from the day. I will be writing more frequently again and trying to get back in the swing of things.

Ruger

My best friend and pal of almost 13 years I had to say goodbye to the other night and he will be dearly missed. Rest In Peace Good Boy.

08-08-2008

Not much doing today other than a job later on in the evening. I tried something new and took my bird(Sun Conure) Sammy for a bike ride and about a block down realized that was not a great idea once he flew off my shoulder and into the air for his biggest flight yet! He made a huge swooping circle to come back for a landing in a near by shrub. I am sure it was cool for him to really spread his wings, but I was in panic mode for about 5 seconds. I luckily got him back on my shoulder and back to his safe home...phewww! :)

Gone Swimming!

Yesterday...Sunday...I went by a friends pool to let their dogs out and to also take a dip in the pool to cool off on another hot summer day. My friend has two smaller doggies names Buddy and Red and his girlfriend's dog Jack was there to join me in the pool. He is a yellow lab and a very good swimmer as I later found out! The minute I let the dogs out he streamlined right for the lake and jumped in and then rolled around a bit on the grass and hung out with me at the pool. I realized he liked this volleyball I was playing with and tossed it into the pool and he barely hesitated and jumped right in for it. He probably swam 40 laps in that pool fetching and playing with that yellow ball....no exaggeration. We had fun hanging out in the pool and here is a snapshot from the day. Check in soon.