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I Can’t Believe It’s Been a Week

Mark — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:14:51 +0000

Where does the time go? 7 days since I last posted. Way too long. There is a good reason for it, though. For the last week I’ve been migrating my site and blog over to a new host. Talk about nerve-wracking. It’s one thing to physically move — at least you can count boxes and buy the movers pizza — but when you’re talking webhosting, email, blogs and search engine optimization it’s all electrons and at some point you have to just cross your fingers and hope everything makes it over safely.

So far, so good. I don’t think any emails got lost and as I checked obsessively throughout the weekend I never got an error page. The move did solve a major issue I’d been having for the last 6 weeks — none of my feeds were working and now they are. So, anyone trying to sign up for an RSS feed or alert by email won’t get one of those annoying error messages.

This week I’ll get back to posting more regularly and promise to catch everyone up on all the pet photography that’s been going on.

Happy Birthday, San Francisco SPCA

Mark — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:58:16 +0000

Last weekend the San Francisco SPCA celebrated its 140th anniversary and I was asked to photograph it for them (I tried to get past the irony that they shared their anniversary date with the 1906 earthquake)

It kicked off on Friday with speeches by SFSPCA president Jan McHugh-Smith, Assmemblyman Mark Leno and others along with appearances by the city’s police and fire chiefs and the San Francisco Mounted Police Unit.

Officer and Horse with San Francisco Mounted Police Unit

Better than kissing babies…Assemblyman Mark Leno

Period Horse Ambulance

Saturday and Sunday things moved inside where there were booths and demos for the Hearing Dog program, agility classes and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) program.

Hearing Dog Demo

Odd Couple: Animal Assisted Therapy animals Guido the Car and Stanley the Guinea Pig -

Mark Rogers Photography Hits the Books – I’m published!

Mark Rogers — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:51:13 +0000

Very exciting stuff going on in Mark Rogers Photography land. Some of my shots have just been published in a new book: Luxury For Cats from Fusion-Publishing. Those interested can purchase it here.

Shots of the cover (not my shot) and one of the spreads (my shot) are below. The cool cat in the spread, Guido, is one of my favorites. His handle is “The Italian Kitty” and he actually has his own blog

All the shots were taken at a fabulous new cat kennel (Cattery is the proper term) that just opened up a few months ago in Presidio Heights in San Francisco. It’s called Pet Camp – Cat Safari and is owned by the same fine folks who opened up the original Pet Camp 10 years ago.

Now, some of you may ask why on earth anything having to do with cats is showing up in a blog named Smile Like a Dog. Well…I photograph all sorts of animals: dogs, cats, camels, birds but Smile Like a Pet just didn’t have a nice ring to it.