In the City
A Condo or Apartment
Small rooms are not a problem. One good window and a single light will do more than most people expect, and a dog who is impossible everywhere else is often steady on his own floor.
Nashville · Davidson County
A Nashville dog photographer based thirty-five miles west.
The studio is in Burns, out past Kingston Springs. Most Nashville sessions happen where your dog already lives. Some are worth the drive out.
The Honest Version
Not a Nashville studio. A studio that drives to Nashville.
The Dog Form works out of Burns, in Dickson County, about 35 miles west of the city. That is the whole of it. The address is not dressed up to sound closer than it is.
What that means in practice is straightforward. The lights and the camera come to you and the session happens in the city, or you make the drive out and work in a room built for this. Either one is normal here.
The wider service area runs from Dickson east through Bellevue, Nashville, Brentwood, and Franklin.
Where the Work Happens
Four ways a Nashville session goes.
City dogs rarely have a field. They have a room, a small yard, a stretch of green somewhere nearby, and a car they either love or do not. Each of those makes a different kind of portrait.
In the City
A Back Garden or Courtyard
Fenced ground your dog already trusts, worked in the last hour of light. This is usually the answer for a dog who cannot be off lead anywhere else.
Nearby
A Park or Open Green Space
Only where photography is permitted, and always checked before the day rather than on it. If a place has rules about lighting or tripods, we choose another one.
Out West
The Drive Out to the Studio
Thirty-five miles of highway and then quiet. The studio is where the dark, sculpted portraits are made, with nothing in the frame but your dog.
See the studio work
Making the Choice
How the location gets decided.
In the consultation, not on the day. Two things settle it: what your dog can handle, and what you want hanging on the wall.
Anxious dogs, old dogs, and reactive dogs are usually photographed at home. Familiar footing does more for a portrait than any backdrop ever has.
If the picture in your head is the dark, sculpted one, that is studio work. It needs light held under control, and control is easier in a room built for the job.
The whole sequence, from the first conversation to finished artwork, is laid out in the portrait experience.
The studio is west of the city. The portrait is wherever your dog is.
Travelling In
What coming to Nashville actually involves.
Everything a session needs fits in a car. Lights, stands, a backdrop if the plan calls for one, and the camera. If you are in a building with an elevator, a garage code, or a loading door, say so when you write. It changes how the load-in is planned and it saves your dog twenty minutes of doorbell.
City sessions are scheduled around the light first and the direction of traffic second. A morning slot and an afternoon slot are not the same thing to plan, which is why the day gets chosen in conversation rather than picked off a calendar.
Distance is part of that conversation. Tell me where you are when you write and you will have a straight answer about it before anything is booked.
The session fee is $195, redeemable in full against artwork. Collections, individual pieces, and albums are all listed on the pricing page.
Questions
What Nashville families ask.
Yes. The studio is in Burns, about 35 miles west of the city, and it travels in for in-home and on-location sessions. Where a session happens is settled in the consultation, before anything is booked.
It depends on your dog and on the picture you want. Home suits dogs who are anxious, elderly, or only themselves on their own rug. The studio suits a dark, controlled portrait with nothing in the frame but your dog.
Apartments and condos, back gardens and courtyards, and public green space where photography is permitted. The location is confirmed before the day, never guessed at on the morning.