Being a shelter photographer you have two seasons, kitten season and old pet season. Both represent hope and sadness. Kitten season is happy because who doesn’t love kittens? I don’t get too excited about human babies but baby animals, I’m all over that. Kitten season is also sad. Just when you think folks are starting […]

I have been photographing at the KS Humane Society for nearly two years (wow, time has flown by!). During that time, I’ve accumulated many many hundreds of photos of the animals I’ve photographed. The communications department asked if I might be able to send them copies as I’m getting tight on space so I had […]

If you haven’t attended Woofstock and you love dogs, you need to make the time to attend this premier pooch focused event. It is a huge fundraiser for the Kansas Humane Society and is a great opportunity to get out and meet other dog lovers! This was my second year photographing the event as a […]

Things have not been well here at Islay Corners Photography. I have been overwhelmed with life events of late and I am slowly returning to my life to normal. I had hoped to build this year on last year’s successes however, that was not to be. I headed home in June for a short whirlwind […]

Sometimes an animal shelter’s kitty cup runneth over. This is what happened at the local shelter where I volunteer. Enter the Kittenpalooza event. I was asked to help out photographing the kittens that were coming back to the shelter from foster homes in preparation for Kittenpalooza. For a while now, I’ve been trying to figure […]