A good photographer for German Shepherds is a jewel indeed!! The typical dog photographer doesn't understand what most shepherd people want in their win pictures. Several years ago we had a dog photographer take the pictures for the Rocky Mtn Specialty. Patty and I got together with him and he took some of the most wonderful pictures of our dogs up at Red Rocks in Colorado. In fact one of them is the January cover of GV Cookie. We both have some beautiful head shots of our girls. Anyway, we spent alot of time talking to him, explaining what angles we wanted in our show pictures, showed him the ideal angles from good Review ads, and when he took the pictures at our show he still was off, wanted to get the head and face in too much instead of directly from the side showing the profile. We had to physically move him several times as he was angled too far forward on the dog for a good shot. Shepherd people who become photographers do a wonderful job because they understand what i t is we want in our pictures. It happens alot with the all breed photos, they are trying to get the dogs expression at the expense of losing the side profile. Being an all breed photographer is almost like being a judge, you need to know each breed and what we want to see in our photos! Each breed is indeed different! Sheri Chambers Paravel German shepherds ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================