On the 4th January I will have been showing for one year!!  When we first started talking about getting another dog, showing wasn't something I'd ever seriously considered BUT we've had a fantastic year with some great results.

Thanks to a certain, well known to CD, photographer (thanks Sam) I have a couple of lovely photographs of my boy in the ring in his first junior class.  I'm really proud of him but don't know what to do with the pics!

I have thought about framing and hanging them but don't know where to put them.  I've also been half hanging on for the critique  - we've had every other show but this one from August.

What do you do with your pictures; do you still bother to order them, if you put them on the wall - where do you put them? 

I haven't ordered that many - and actually only the ones with my daughter junior handling in - framed and on shelf in our lounge.

Having said that just looked and one has mysterious disappeared and its from the Richmond Semi's too :(  no idea where its gone!

:)

I have not got any photos, Apart from the ones my AH takes witch I put on my dogs website .but then again we have only just started showing. But I have a show shelf where I put my dogs rosettes and prize cards . If I had a photo, I would frame it and hang it by the corner. :)

Rach

Its about time you got one of your "other" marvellous daughter who fabulously handles the hairy beast!!  (But I would say that :)  )

Jill
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LOL - that reminds me never got the photos from the club show sent through - need to find out who took them from DW as never received any proofs from him - shame it wasn't the same peeps as 2007 as they were fab and all online!

When you get the free photo session for BOB at most open shows (funny you never get it at champ.shows -guess the photographers would be too busy?) I only tend to do it once -i.e. not for any further BOBs with the same dog. Put the pics on my website and I am planning (still haven't got round to it after all this time) to frame the photos and hang them on the wall next to the dog's BOB rosettes.

Do you have to ask for a photo to be taken or do they just do it ?

I don't have my show girl yet (just keeping fingers crossed that the mum is pregnant, all being well should have her by March!) but when I get her, if we do well I'm going to frame the pics and put them on the wall of my office at home. I won BIS at a breed open show a couple of years back handling my friends dog and have a lovely picture of that which I keep meaning to frame (its on my list of things to do) and I will put it under the lovely rosette which is hanging in my office.

My breed mentor has a room in her house dedicated to all the lovely dogs she's bred, with photos and rosettes everywhere - I'm thinking along those lines so hopefully we'll be successful!

Well done on your successes with your boy dogs a babe :-)

a nice big photo album,
the type where the sticky clear page pulls back and u stick pic under it,
along with critique,or place card signed by judge ect is good keep sake for all shows,
and will be able to be expanded as the years go by...
good luck
jayne
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We LOVE Canvasses here, as my Dad does a small amount of photography as his hobby I admit we have some nice pictures.  So we get them printed onto canvass via an online company and they look fantastic!  Someone I handle for too has orderd afew canvases of her dogs from my Dad and each one is of good quality print wise and they make a picture special, it's something different :)

Do you have to ask for a photo to be taken or do they just do it ?

Usually if you have a win at an open show you are given a voucher for a free photograph session -it's then up to you if you purchase the pics of not. But if the photographer is there anyway you can usually pay for a session.

Ice queen, could you pm me the company who does the canvas prints please, have a nice picture which would like on a canvas.

Many thanks
Fiona

> What do you do with your pictures; do you still bother to order them, if you put them on the wall - where do you put them?

Does your club do a year book?

Insertion into one of those means you and the whole club/world can see your dog and as these are kept for posterity, the photo will be seen for years.

> Do you have to ask for a photo to be taken or do they just do it ?

I had one via the voucher system that MarianneB mentions which we got for Best Puppy in Breed.  That was our first proper photograph and it was pretty expensive to get a copy of and although it's ok it's somehow doesn't look like the dog I recognise!

The ones I want to do something with are much nicer.  Sam has caught him, and me, doing the right things and looking better than I realised!  She was watching the judging and taking photographs then sent me the proofs in the post - I didn't even know she was taking pictures so perhaps that why we look 'normal' :)

I don't know what a year book is Tooolz - so I'm off to check

Thanks MarianneB and dogs a babe . :)

A year book is sort of a cross between a way to boast of last year's wins and advertise your dogs or up-and-coming puppies. So you might have a picture of your dog with 'BOB Crufts 2008' or 'Gained his ShCM at 2 years old' or '5 BOB at open level, 1st at Club show'. Or you might have a picture of your latest litter saying 'hopefuls for next year, by top winning dog Ch xxx'. Or some people put memorial pages to a loved dog who passed away that year and so on. This year I am having a head shot of my girl and a stacked shot of her son in America who just got his first Best of Winners - partly to brag about them both, partly in case we breed from her so people might be thinking 'ooh, that bitch produced a nice puppy last time'. :-)

Similar to our year book.  It's mainly a gathering of all current owners advertising there dog and it's lovely to look back on them years down the line.

In ours this year (which is acctually only every two years) we are having one page for the two dogs we lost this year and a page for our youngster whom we are planning to breed next year.  :)

We have them for our breed going back YEARS and it's nice to sit down and see dogs of the past and we also get them out when we have people round intrested in the breed to show them as many pictures of possible as it gives them an idea of what type they like most and as to where to get a litter from. :)

Who is the online person you get your pics on canvass by????
Lea :) :)

> partly to brag about them both, partly in case we breed from her so people might be thinking 'ooh, that bitch produced a nice puppy last time'

And this year LucyDogs, to see just who has MRI scanned their dogs...it will be very interesting :-)

I've got Boxer year books going back to the '70's and the Cavalier Club year books to the early '80's and they're a treasure trove of info.

I was at a breed champ show a few weeks back, and the hosting breed club had a load of back copies of yearbooks that they were giving away free, well I took a whole load of them dating right back to 1990, and I've sat for hours looking at them - they're really interesting. The same breed clubs yearbooks also lists all the dogs that have been hip scored and what their scores are.

I can't wait til I can place an ad in a yearbook for my puppy (who hasn't even been born yet - keeping fingers crossed) - who will hopefully be successful in the ring!! :-)

when my friend died last year, her husband was going to throw out loads of paperwork but let me have it. She had kept yearbooks, cuttings, photos and newsletters for nearly 40 years. its been fantastic to read it all.

Hmm, perhaps I should have added that my bitch is scanned - ah well, too late now! :-)