2024 Dog Sports Photography Year in Review

To purchase photos from my 2024 events, please visit my gallery page. Photos will be available for one year after the first day of the trial.

Radar the Beagle, in my favorite Fast CAT photo of 2024

2024 was a busy year for dog sports! I had a goal of photographing 15 dog sports events, with at least 12 of them being Fast CATs. And I am so proud to say that I achieved that goal!

I uploaded 20,112 finished photos this year, and culled countless others — I estimate over 100,000 photos didn’t make the cut.

I spent 44 days shooting.

I took 27 flights and drove 12,434 miles in my personal car.

I photographed 1 agility event, 1 barn hunt event, and 13 Fast CATs in 2024. 6 events were on the East Coast (primarily in Western and Northern New York) and 9 were in the Midwest and West. I went all over the place this year!

All this travel did come at a price though, both financially and metaphorically. For my own sanity and my net income, I have made the difficult decision to cut back on the number of events I take on, as well as the distance I will travel to photograph events.

But onto some favorite photos and moments from the year!

I really loved my Fast CAT bag grab photos this year! Bag grab photos are usually my favorite because they truly capture the dog’s personality and tell a story:

You already know that my favorite sports photos are the ones capturing the dogs and their humans having fun together. I loved capturing so many dog/handler teams this year and I feel so fortunate to have photographed these sweet moments:

The March Loyalhanna Agility Club event in Pennsylvania was my first time shooting an agility trial and it was a lot of fun! I don’t do agility with my own dogs (yet), so I learned a lot about the sport by photographing this trial!

I hadn’t photographed barn hunt in a while, so the Central Bark event in April was a lot of fun! With two rings running concurrently, it was a busy trial and I was super impressed with the club’s effciency.

And I would be remiss if I didn’t share a few photos of my own dogs from this year. Annabeth and Ginsburg accompanied me to a few of my events. Ginsburg earned her FCAT2 in Dunbar, West Virginia and Annabeth earned her DCAT in Aurora, Colorado.

2024 was a busy year for dog sports photography! I feel so lucky and grateful for the opportunity to photograph you and your dog this year!

Cheers to another great year in photography in 2025!

If you need a photographer for an upcoming event, please send me an email as soon as possible so I can reserve the dates. I photograph all dog sports between Buffalo, NY and Albany, NY; and Fast CAT within a 7 hour drive of Geneva, NY.  

I do make some travel exceptions, so if you'd like me to photograph an event outside of this radius, feel free to email anyway.