The Komnick Family {Nashville Dog Photography}

This week on the blog, meet the Komnick Family: Malika, Robby, Mia and Rambo. Their photo session was done at Ellington Agricultural Center. (There is still one more spot for a mini left at this location! Please click on this booking link to reserve it).

Mia and Rambo are the cute dogs you see in the photos below. Mia is five and was named by her foster mom, so Malika and Robby kept it. As for Rambo (age three), Robby liked the name for him. These two sweet pups are both very loving, but the couple agrees that Mia loves Robby the most. While Rambo loves to get treats, Mia is not treat motivated at all. Rambo also loves as much affection and pets as he can get!

Both dogs are from rescues in North Carolina. Mia is from the Franklin Humane Society, and Rambo is from Saving Grace.

Here are just a few of my favorites from our session:

~Mandy

Bring Your Pet to Your Family Photo Session!

Mandy Whitley Photography is Nashville's premiere pet photographer. Mandy Whitley creates fun and playful photographs with pets and their people. She photographs portrait sessions, family sessions, couple portraits, and weddings - as well as just pets! To inquire about booking a photo session, contact Mandy!

The Carpenter Family {Nashville Pet Photography}

This week on the blog, we have the Carpenter Family, including Laura and Jeremy with their sweet pup, Riley. We did this session at one of my favorite spots, Marcella Vivrette Smith Park.

With this blog, we celebrate life for two different reasons: Laura and Jeremy were expecting their sweet boy Heath Thomas, who is 10 months old now! But also, in the time that has passed since we took those photos, Riley has passed away. We celebrate the long life she had with her people! In these photos, she was 17.

To get to know this cute dog a little more… Riley also went by the name of “Riley-Roo”, and she loved cookies. She was such a resilient dog and the Carpenters loved her love of life. “We’ve been through a lot of big life events together.” They adopted Riley from the Humane Society of the Pikes Region in Colorado Springs, CO.

I hope you enjoy checking out some of my faves of this family below!

~Mandy

P.S. If you are still interested in booking a Fall mini session, it’s not too late. I have three spots on Sunday, October 2nd! Here is the booking link: https://book.usesession.com/i/-nPwGR6wF

Expecting? Capture the Moment on Camera with Your Pet!

Mandy Whitley Photography is Nashville's premiere pet photographer. Mandy Whitley creates fun and playful photographs with pets and their people. She photographs portrait sessions, family sessions, couple portraits, and weddings - as well as just pets! To inquire about booking a photo session, contact Mandy!

The Renfro Family {Nashville Pet Photography}

On the blog this week, I have the pleasure of sharing not just one session with the Renfro Family, but four! I am so grateful for families that come back to do their photos with me year after year (and sometimes more than once a year). Thank you!

The photos below include their mini session from October 2019, their November 2020 mini when they moved into their new house, their October 2021 mini (without pups) at the tree farm, and another October 2021 mini session to include the pups at my house in College Grove. The kids' grandparents and their cute dog (Ella) were able to join in the last mini as well!

The Renfro Family includes: Alex, Tiffany, Finn (who was just 3 yrs at the time of the last session), Oaks (who was 2 months at the time of the last session), and their two fur babies Copper and Lady Bird. They were first introduced on the blog in Spring of 2018! (Well, not Oaks - he wasn’t born yet). So don’t forget to check out that May 2018 mini session to see Finn as a sweet, blue eyed baby with his puppies.

Now let’s talk about these sweet dogs…

Copper (named after the hound dog in The Fox and the Hound) is an 8-year-old beagle/basset hound mix. They rescued him from A Safe Place for Animals in Gallatin, TN. Copper loves to fetch, rip up toys, and snuggle. Their favorite things about Copper are how kind he is to his sister Birdie, how he grumbles and snores like an old man, and how he is never shy about giving kisses to anyone.

Lady Bird (also known as Birdie) is a 7-year-old pit/lab mix the Renfro’s were fostering from Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue. Well, Birdie became what is known as a “foster fail”. That’s because they just had to keep her in the family! Birdie is hard to describe to people; you just have to be around her to get her quiet and soulful personality. Birdie’s favorite things are blankets to snuggle under, checking on her human brothers, giving kisses to Copper, and snuggling (though you can’t acknowledge the snuggling…it spooks her!).

Tiffany and her family value photography, and I appreciate that I get the pleasure of snapping so many photos of them as they grow year after year.

Enjoy my favorites from these sessions! (ordered most recent to oldest :)

~Mandy

Include Your Pets in Your Family Photos!

Mandy Whitley Photography is Nashville's premiere pet photographer. Mandy Whitley creates fun and playful photographs with pets and their people. She photographs portrait sessions, family sessions, couple portraits, and weddings - as well as just pets! To inquire about booking a photo session, contact Mandy!