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Dog Days of Downtown Silver Spring

Posted by on Sep 22, 2008 in Dogs, Events

This past Saturday was the first Dog Days of Downtown Silver Spring event, and we had a beautiful day for it.  The event was also a grand opening for the fabulous new pet store in Silver Spring, Living Ruff.  Owners Ron and Jessica are animal lovers first and foremost, and have put together a store of high quality products, healthy food and treats, and unique gifts for pet lovers. And their location can’t be beat, right in the heart of Downtown Silver Spring.

Ron and Jessica were gracious enough to invite me to have a table at the event, along with some other fabulous vendors and organizations. I met so many wonderful people and pets (who I hope I’ll have the chance to work with soon!).

Here are a few of my favorites:

They had face painting for kids… with a cat or dog theme.

Ron and Jessica were handing out delicious looking doggie treats.

I love Weimaraners.

Canine Companions for Independence brought some of the cutest dogs.

In this heated election season, every opinion must be heard. The folks at Pawlitical Pooch set up an independent poll for politically-minded pooches. Unofficial exit polling had the donkeys favored over the elephants.

Artist Glen Kessler explains the process of making a pet portrait.

The new Living Ruff store, located right on Georgia Avenue.

These Bernese Mountain Dogs were two of my favorite dogs of the day. They were so sweet…

… and a bit of a handful…

These two made me laugh.

I love the layers of dogs in this one…

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9 Comments

  • Carol Weldin on Sep 30, 2008 Reply

    I may be biased, but I think the cutest puppy EVER, was Hogan, the CCI puppy! (smile)

  • Justin Ressler on Sep 30, 2008 Reply

    Incredible photography, great job of taking an event where most people would take ‘snapshots’ and turning them into photographs. I’d like to see the photos linked to a gallery with EXIF data. Very nice.

    -j

  • Julie Socher on Sep 29, 2008 Reply

    I love the candidness of these photos. I actually recognized someone. The lady with the Bernese Mountain dogs, she was an instructer I had in college. Small world! :mrgreen:

  • Mia on Sep 27, 2008 Reply

    I love this post. You have some amazing shots and it looks like such a fun day.

  • Grace on Sep 26, 2008 Reply

    Event photography is NOT easy to do but you’ve made it look effortless. These shots are incredible and so photo journalistic. Fantastic!

  • Joanne Eby on Sep 25, 2008 Reply

    What a wonderful collection of photographs. These are great, especially the one with man kissing dog!! Brought tears to my eyes, I never made it there, but these pictures made me feel like I almost was there!!!!!!!!

  • Patrice on Sep 24, 2008 Reply

    Hi,

    The photo’s are amazing. Who is the photographer? I work for Canine Companions for Independence and I would love to post some of the pictures on our website.

    If anyone knows who it is, please let me know.

    Thanks,

    Patrice

  • Emily DeWan on Sep 23, 2008 Reply

    That last one made me cry! So beautiful. What a fun event.

  • leesia on Sep 23, 2008 Reply

    love this photo story! you get such a feel for the event from so many different levels. makes me sad that atlanta doesn’t have many events like this…

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