Week 26 marks the half-way point of the year and the Pet Photography 52 Week challenge. The theme this week is "doors". I had just the door in my own town of Coppell in mind; a fabulous blue door in a stone wall that leads to a private garden. The only problem is that it's on a fairly busy road so I was going to need help with Ginger, because safety first. Always. I thought photographing in the morning would be best to avoid a lot of traffic so I asked my husband for help handling Ginger and we headed out at 6:45 in the morning. The light was moody and the sky had a bit of pink and salmon in it, so rather than the bright and airy image I had originally planned, I shifted to something a bit more dramatic.

I never realized that there was landscape lighting on each side of the door, which just added to the drama. I put a speed light just out of frame to brighten up Ginger and walked across the road to photograph while my husband had Ginger on a leash. I had him stand just outside of the door, snapped a few frames in between the cars whizzing past and when I knew I had a good photograph of Ginger, I had him walk out of the frame with her and took a couple more "plate" frames (no subject in the frame) so I could combine them in Photoshop to remove him from the final image (sorry honey). 

Between the exposure frames, the images with Ginger and the "plate" frames, I took 30 photographs on this early morning field trip for this week's post. When possible, I do try to photograph new and fresh images for the project because it sparks my creativity and keeps me on my toes to think of fresh, new ideas.