Bespoke Fine Art Portraiture
Clare Ahalt Photography is a fine art portrait photographer located in Maryland. She creates custom fine art portraiture of children, pets, families and high school seniors and serves clientele in the Maryland, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia areas, including the Montgomery County areas of Potomac, MD, Bethesda, MD, Loudon County area of Leesburg, VA, the Northern Virginia area of Mclean VA, and Frederick County areas, including Frederick MD, Middletown MD, Walkersville MD and Urbana MD.
This pet photograph was taken of a Border Collie and he belongs to one of the veterinary assistants at Jefferson Veterinary Hospital. I took these series of pet portraits as part of the animal hospital's web redesign - instead of impersonal stock images, each pet photograph on the site is a client's pet or a pet of a staff member, and all photographs were shot around Frederick county, MD.
This portrait is of my daughter and our elderly dog, Muffin who is a samoyed and will be 14 this year. Muffin is a trooper and is still patrolling our farm, we are lucky that my husband is a veterinarian over at Jefferson Veterinary Hospital, and hope that he can keep her going forever.
This photograph epitomizes how I hope that my daughter remembers her childhood. Riding around exploring on her pony.
Meet Bently the dog. I photographed him as part of an update that I've been doing with Jefferson Veterinary Hospital's website, where I've been taking pet portraits of the staff's dogs. I've been really enjoying photographing pets and I am seriously considering adding it to one of my specialities. As the wife of a veterinarian, I think that pet portraiture fits in my portfolio pretty nicely :D
This is a little different to my usual portraits and is a pet portrait of a dog of one the veterinary technicians' dogs over at my husband's animal hospital, Jefferson Veterinary Hospital. She is an Australian Shepherd, commonly referred to as an Aussie and was so sweet and soft.
Another photograph of another fun baseball game with Frederick National Little League in downtown Frederick at Staley Field. My son is loving these games.
I've decided to task myself with the task of posting a photograph a day. I'm being forgiving on myself, it doesn't have to be something that I took that day, although that would be nice :D I took this photograph earlier this spring down at the cherry blossoms along the tidal basin in Washington DC.
My accepted submission for Click Pro/Cm Pro. The 150 images are sorted by season and colour. They are a mix of client high school senior portraits, child portraits, photographs of my daughter and son, pictures of our trips to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, France and Spain. The vast majority of pictures were taken in Frederick, Maryland, with a few taken in Washington DC and Northern Virginia.
Read MorePhotographs taken over in beautiful Middletown, MD.
Read MoreHappy national puppy day!! It's national puppy day - celebrate the cuteness!!!!! This also seems like the perfect day to announce that I am going to start accepting clients for pet portraiture! I focus my photography on the things that I love, and I'm not quite sure why I haven't accepted clients specifically for pet photography before ... I've been doing it on a more personal basis with my pets and include pets as part of my child and senior portrait photography experiences.
If you are looking for a new furry family member, consider adopting from a local animal shelter or rescue!!! If you have a puppy or dog and are looking for a veterinarian, my husband is Dr. Brooks Ahalt over at Jefferson Veterinary Hospital and, not that I'm biased or anything, I think that he's pretty great!!!