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Ruthless Photos Helping Sydney and Canberra's dogs in need and celebrating your pet's colourful life since 2008. Photographing exclusively pets since 2008. Living my best life!

Are you the kind of person that can't wait to show photos of your pets to people you just met? Yeah, same! That's me in the page's profile photo. At least, that was me before the pandemic. I have a little more padding these days and sadly all four of those dogs have passed away in the five years since that photo was taken (but we've foster failed two more so I'm still a crazy dog lady, don't worry

!). With so many losses in such a short space of time the importance of capturing memories of our dogs has never become more apparent to me. People often ask when is the best time to book a session? Now. Now is the best time. Whatever age they are there's no better time than today. Don't put it off, tomorrow is never guaranteed. I've never had a client say they wish they'd waited but I've had lots say they wish they hadn't. If you want to see more photos of my dogs you can follow the on Instagram. I have a personal/BTS account called which I only set to private because I was getting so many spam followers, normal people are welcome! If you'd like to subscribe to my mailing list you can opt-in here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/642ba8d2c6dcb28e7df01ffc

29/01/2025

Some of you may remember Merlin the black Lab who I photographed in 2023. This is his new brother, Bequin. Merlin was bought to be trained to be a therapy dog but he didn’t love the work so the role was passed to this handsome boy. He’s still in training but I have no doubt that he’ll excel at the job when he graduates.

His person opted for the full digital collection, so here’s a few of my favourites - you can see the full slideshow on my blog.

If you'd love photos like this of your own pet/s I would love to make that happen for you!

28/01/2025

Not long to go now!

23/01/2025

For the first time in the history of Ruthless Photos – which is over 16 years if you want to be specific – I'm offering themed mini sessions. The theme is Valentine's Day (obviously 😅), they're very limited edition and only available on Fri 31st Jan, Sat 1st Feb and Sat 8th Feb (unless you're a previous client in which case I may be able to fit you in on another day).

Full details and the booking calendar are here:
https://www.ruthlessphotos.com/valentines-day-mini-sessions/

Please tell all your dog owning friends!

21/01/2025

Hiiiiiiii ... to the three people who might see this after not posting for many weeks! I've been back to work since the 12th but I've been slack about posting. This is just a quick one to let you know that I'll be launching a very limited number of Valentine's Day mini sessions in the next 24hrs but the link to book will go to my email list first, so if you don't want to miss out get yourself on there 😎

Some photos of the boys for tax. Ninja did not like the first pose, not one bit, he's nobody's bitch! In fact, he got fired from the shoot pretty early on for refusing to cooperate – and that's why Butters get paid the big bucks. Have you seen him in the Lyka ad on Insta? Yes, that is him! This was just a little test shoot to try out some new equipment so I was ready for Betty and Bruce last Saturday. You'll get to meet them soon.

How was your break? Any news? Any new puppies? I almost did but managed to show some self restraint and wait until life is less chaotic.

10/12/2024

There are still a couple of Christmas Specials in my online store if you fancy grabbing yourself one and saving $1750 on a studio session plus ten digital files.

09/12/2024

I received the very sad news that Jax passed away last week after a brief illness. We took him in 10 years ago after his owner's partner had passed away. He wasn't a foster as such because his owner just needed time to grieve. If he didn't have a home we would've kept him for sure, he was such a great pup and Bruno loved him. My husband has wanted a Rottie ever since.

Sending much love to David at this difficult time. It was extra painful that he lost Jax exactly ten years to the day after losing his partner 😢

03/12/2024

My Christmas Special is now live on my website. If you like the idea of saving $1750 then run, don't walk, to my online store as there are only 5 available.

Santa will be extra kind to you if you repost to spread the word. No, really!

25/11/2024

Potato went home last week. He left with a brain full of new knowledge and experiences and the foundations to grow into a really lovely dog. He also left with a modelling portfolio, an intro to my dogs' agent and a massive bag of notes and goodies.

We miss him but we're looking forward to our next student. Please spread the word if you know anyone who needs some help raising their puppy. We still have availability over the holidays for any breed under 6mos.

18/11/2024

Good morning! My Black Friday special is now live on my website. You don't have to look hard to find it so I won't anger the algorithm by adding the address 😂

14/11/2024

*** Model Call ***

I'm looking for a dog to feature on a new product my lab launched recently, which will be displayed at my studio.

Please read in full before commenting!

Dog should be:
Confident
Not camera shy or afraid of flashing lights
Have basic obedience
Any breed / size / age

Owner should be:
Very flexible with dates / times as this will be shot outdoors at sunset in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and will possibly need to be rescheduled multiple times until the weather is just right.

Both dog and owner should be healthy and fit enough to climb across some rocks.

You will receive a premium piece of wall art (12" brushed metal framed acrylic) and the option to purchase other images, should you wish.

Comment below with a photo of your dog, their name and age. I'll be in touch with everyone privately to find out more info but there can only be one "winner". Feel free to share and tag friends.

29/10/2024

Potato is our Pupstarts board and train client, he's been living with us since last week. Now that my studio renovations are finished I brought him in for a test shoot, to make sure everything is working as it should and ready for my next booking. All his training has paid off, he was such a great model!

17/10/2024

Happy 6th birthday to the biggest goober, Peanut Butter / Butters / Butthead / the bulldozer / Butterball (he also answers to oi!). We celebrated a day early because it was forecast to rain today. It's ok, he doesn't know the day before his birthday is not his birthday!

He had an outing to his favourite place, followed by a steak breakfast and today, if he behaves himself, I'll take him to the pet shop to pick out a toy that Ninja will probably destroy.

02/10/2024

Hi all!

I mentioned recently that I'd passed the assessment to become a qualified puppy school instructor – my photography studio in Alexandria will now be home to puppy school and puppy daycare. It's still business as usual for Ruthless Photos and no, there won't be any puppies in the next room while I'm photographing your dog! In fact, after this weekend there won't be a next room as we'll be turning my space into one big room.

If you're getting a baby puppy, know someone getting a puppy, you breed puppies or you see someone in a Facebook group asking for puppy school/puppy daycare/puppy boarding recommendations I'd be eternally grateful if you sent them my way.

I'm currently taking bookings for early November.

01/10/2024

Do you have a Red Balloon voucher and you don't know what to spend it on? Well now you can spend it on meeeeeee!

16/09/2024

Lulu's order went home at the weekend so now I can share the rest of her people's favourites. She was such a delight to work with so it was nice to hear they plan to do it again when she's older (she was only 6mos here).

A video of the printed pieces is below.

03/09/2024

I added the rest of the holiday house pics to the original post ...

28/08/2024

A long overdue sneak peek of Lulu who came to my studio in July and did some fancy dancing for the camera!

Her person received a voucher for her birthday which is the best present ever for any dog nut 🥰

27/08/2024

Hullooooo! Just popping in to let you know I'm still alive and wish you all a belated happy international dogs day 😅

It's been quiet here but my life has been the opposite of quiet. The husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary and a couple of weeks later we had a joint 50th birthday party. A good friend came over from Ireland for the festivities so we took him (and the boys) to Culburra for a week afterwards. There are no hooning pics this time because the garden was too small and un-photogenic.

I kinda need another holiday to recover from all that people-ing but unfortunately I don't have a Sugar Daddy so I'm back at work now. Apparently we skipped Spring and went straight into summer so if you want to book a location shoot before it gets super hot, hit me up!

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I was really anxious about my first Valentine’s Day mini session because Otis looks so much like Bruno, I thought I was going to cry. But thanks to his non stop smiling I managed to keep it together. What a gorgeous boy and he does the best head tilts 🥰