How I Get Your Dog to Look at The Camera: Three Tricks of The Trade.

It’s a pretty normal thing for dog owners to tell me that they don’t think their dog will cooperate for photos because they refuse to look at the camera. I tell them that’s okay because we’ll work together to make their dog’s experience so much fun that they won’t even realize there’s a camera to […]
Seattle Pet Photographer Recommends: 15 Books to Buy for People Who Love Cats and Dogs

I planned to read 50 books in 2020. I set that goal back in December of 2019 when I assumed that 2020 would somewhat resemble “normal.” You’d think that because of the pandemic and stay home orders, I would have had plenty of time to work my way through that goal, right? Well, I didn’t […]
Your yard does not have to be pretty to be beautiful. Seattle Pet Photography by Marika Moffitt.

Sometimes people don’t believe me when I tell them that we can create incredible portraits of their pets without having to leave their backyard. Believe me when I say this, Your yard does not have to be pretty to be beautiful. It’s about your pet, it’s about the light and it’s about having someone who […]
A love you never grow out of.

I was three years old when I fell in love with horses. My parents like to tell the story of how they knew it was serious when I exclaimed, “Never in my whole life, have I ever had a pony!” I had been bitten by the bug. The horse crazy bug. My every thought was so […]
Thank you for loving your old dog.

I love old dogs. I love everything about them. The good, the bad, the smelly. All of it. Give me an old dog to photograph, and I will leave part of my heart with them in their portrait. They will look at me with their soulful eyes, and I will be changed; transformed from every […]
There is beauty in sadness: my experience of grief after the death of my dog.

You see, there is beauty in sadness. The experience of losing someone you love connects you to other people who have also experienced this sort of loss. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, what you believe, etc. We all live, we all love, we all experience grief in some way.