We have a new dog photography session option that we are so excited about – Puppy’s First Year or the Four Seasons package. It’s a 4 Signature Sessions for 1 dog, used during the course of (roughly) one calendar year. The 4 sessions can take place at any time during the year – they can correspond with the seasons – fall, winter, spring and summer. Or if the session is for a puppy and it’s more important to capture the pup’s growth, the sessions can take place at whatever stages you want to capture your puppy’s growth spurts and maturity. 

We recently finished a Puppy’s First Year with a Dutch Shepherd and each session took place seasonally starting with summer and ending with spring. 

We started this puppy package with a double merle Great Dane puppy, Joose, in September. Or as his Mom calls them, ‘Watch Me Grow’ sessions – these sessions are all about capturing Joose’s growth, so she can look back on the photos when he is older. His first session was at 13 weeks and his second session was at 6 months.

This new session option is not just for puppies – it’s a great way to capture your pup of any age romping in the fall leaves, playing in the snow, checking out the spring wild flowers or chilling on a summer evening in golden sunlight. It is all about capturing that special pup and remembering her forever. 

For more details about this package or our other session options, please check out Sessions/Pricing page.

We are back at Paws With A Cause’s Retriever Fever this year doing a Headshot Fundraiser. Retriever Fever is a friendly get together of dog owners to meet and learn about Paws With a Cause and see who can raise the most money for Paws – Labrador owners or Golden Retriever owners.

There will be assistance dog demos, vendors, door prizes, food trucks and US!! There will also be a large fenced in area for all pups to play.

The event is Saturday, September 10^th from 11am to 2pm at Picnic Area Park outside of John Ball Zoo, 1300 W. Fulton St. Grand Rapids

Headshots are $20 and include 1 high resolution file for printing and 1 low resolution file for social media. You will receive the best headshot that is taken – photographer’s choice. You will receive your files via email, so when you sign up please make sure your email address is legible.

We have some wonderful news for this year’s fundraiser! Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial is generously matching your donation, up to $1,250. So, for the first 62 headshots that we do, your $20 donation will be matched – thanks to Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial.

100% of proceeds goes to Paws With A Cause – as always, we are donating all of our time and resources.

We will also be raffling off a 1 dog photo session – tickets are only $5. Tickets are available at the Tailwagger Dog Photography booth at the event – the same table your purchase your headshot. No appointments are needed.

You do not have to own a Golden or a Lab to attend this event or be part of our Headshot Fundraiser – any and all breeds are welcome. 

TOGETHER – last year we raised $840 for this incredibly worth cause – come out and help us raise even more this year! 

Who’s excited for fall photo season? We are – we can’t wait to meet all of your adorable pups and create beautiful images of them. We simply photograph THE BEST dogs in West Michigan.

We will have two session options this fall – our regular Signature Session and a short, dog portrait only session, the Fall Dog Portrait Mini Session (I know…we are so imaginative!). 

Our Signature Session, as always, does not have a time limit and the pricing is based on how many pups will be photographed. The base session starts is $295 for 1 pup and each addition pup is $75, up to a max of 4 dogs. You decide what images you want – action, portraits, headshots, candid and/or group images (if more than one pup is involved in the session) – family portraits (humans and their pups) are included, but optional. The session location is mutually agreed upon and in and around the GR metro area (within 20 miles of our GR home base). More details on our Signature Session can be found on our pricing page.

The Fall Dog Portrait Mini Session is available mid-September through the beginning of November. This $99 session is for 1 pup – portraits or headshots only (no action or family portraits) – 20 minutes – all of these sessions will take place at Johnson Park (2600 Wilson Ave SW – about 10 minutes from downtown GR, right off 196). 

Both sessions include 3 digital photos – each digital photo comes with one high resolution file for printing and one matching social media file. 

Regardless of the session, you will receive an online gallery in which you choose the images you want. Additional digital photos may also be purchased.  

We have online schedulers set up for both sessions on our Fall Sessions page on our website. You will also find FAQs and a bit more information about the two sessions there as well. 

A word about our Signature Session Online Scheduler – it lists every time we are available to do a session during the season, to give as many options as possible. However, there is no way we could possible do all of those sessions and get edited galleries to clients in a timely manner. We can only do 3-4 Signature Sessions a week – once 3 or 4 sessions are booked for any given week, we will be clearing out the scheduler for that week. So, if you really need a particular session date – book early. 

The Fall Dog Portrait Mini Sessions are offered throughout the season on varying weekday evenings each week at 4:30pm, 5:00pm and 5:30pm. We might be able to accommodate you on a weekend, if we can pair it up with a Signature Session (your mini session would take place before another client’s Signature Session) – contact us for availability. 

Questions? You can fill out the contact form below and we will get back to you or email us at trish@tailwaggerphoto.com – text or call us at 517-990-5630. 

Again to book one of these session, please see our Fall Session website page – both session online schedulers are listed on this page.

We will be at Paws With A Cause’s Retriever Fever on September 11 (11 – 2pm at Grand Ravines Dog Park in Jenison) doing a $10 Headshot Fundraiser and raffling off a Tailwagger Pupper Session.  

Headshots are $10 and you will receive one high-resolution (for printing) and matching social media sized files of the best headshot (photographer’s choice) of your pup. 

Your dog will remain on his leash for his headshot – we will remove the leash during the editing process, so it will look like your pup was never on a lead. 

The session we will be raffling off is a Wee Tailwagger Pupper Session ($295 value) – good for one dog and the session includes a collection of digital photos. Raffle tickets are $5. 

100% of everything we take in for both fundraisers goes to Paws With A Cause. 

You don’t need to have a Golden Retriever or Labrador Retriever to participate in our fundraisers – all breeds are welcome!

Come see us and support an incredibly worthy cause – September 11^th, 11 – 2pm at Grand Ravines Dog Park in Jenison.  

Holiday news! This holiday season we are offering our Wee Tailwagger Dog Photography Session as a gift card, to be used at any point in time during the course of the year. We’ve traditionally offered our Wee Session only during the fall season, as a way of capturing the beautiful Michigan fall colors without the investment of our Signature Tailwagger Session. But this fall season was a bit different, in that we also had several requests for Wee gift cards from people who were more interested in snow photographs or spring/summer photographs. So, we decided to offer our Wee Tailwagger on a trial basis as a gift card this holiday season. 

Details – what’s included?

Our Wee session is an all-inclusive session, in that a collection of high-resolution files (and matching social media files) is included in the session fee. The session is good for up to 2 dogs and is a 30-45 minute session. Images are viewed through a private online gallery – you choose your collection from 10-15 carefully selected and beautifully edited images that showcase your pup’s unique and unforgettable personality. A custom smart phone app of the photographer’s favorite session images is also included in the session. 

The Wee Tailwagger Session is fully customizable – choose from portrait, action, headshot and ‘me and my pup’ images – just let us know what your vision is of the session and we can accommodate. ‘Me and my pup’ images make wonderful memory keepers and we absolutely love capturing images of the bond you have with your pup. If you don’t have an image preference for your Wee session, we aim for a nice variety of portrait, action and headshot photographs. 

There isn’t an expiration date for any of our gift cards and like previously mentioned, the Wee Tailwagger gift card can be used at any point throughout the year and may even be transferred to another party. For more information about the Wee Tailwagger session, click here. If you want to purchase a Wee Tailwagger gift card, click here, and choose Wee Tailwagger Session as the option under the ‘Gift Cards’ category. 

Have a questions? Please message us, send an email to trish@tailwaggerphoto.com or call us at 517-990-5630.

We wish everyone and their tailwaggers a peaceful and relaxing Holiday Season!