Behind The Scenes Of Our Ribbon Shoots

Earl is always bringing home thousands of cool new ribbons. Those competitions give loads away to him, for obvious reasons. He is just so good! Anyway, there is more to it than just placing the ribbons before him, and taking ONE photo, then uploading it onto here. Oh, no.

Sometimes, you just can't take a sufficient photo. Don't ask me why, I just know it happens! These are the times when you have tens of thousands of photos, all involving the same competition's ribbons, and you have to narrow it down to one. Because sometimes, the photos turn out like this:

But mum! The REALLY impressive subject here is MY FACE!

And although this is a hilariously entertaining photo, it really isn't what I wanted when I said ribbon shoot. You don't shoot them down with your paws, Earl! Come on! You DO have a brain, it's obviously clear to people, including me!

Then, there are ones like this:

Just gimme the damn thing! My mouth awaits!

... Where Earl decides he has had enough of this whole waiting around malarky, and comes straight up to take that treat I am waving in front of the camera at him. Often though, he only looks when the camera is away... and when the camera is on him, he avoids eye contact. It takes a huge, stinky piece of specially cooked sausage for this job!

And then, you also get photos like this:

Actually, I love this photo! I think it has a nice effect, somehow. But again, where's Earl? Where are the other halves of the outside ribbons? There is always something, until you find the perfect (or the closest to perfect) photo. You finally manage to gather your strength, and wipe out all the other millions of photoshoot attempts (and, frankly, fails) from your computer, leaving you with the one smashing shot. If you'd like to see the best shot from our most recent shoot, featured here today, visit our post HERE!

And, there are OTHER photoshoots that go to pot, too:

... ETHEL!!!

What goes on behind the scenes of YOUR pet photoshoots?

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