Pet Photography By James Lout Of Grand Junction

Five years ago, I had never photographed pet portraits before, unless you count chasing my cat around trying to get him to stay still back when I first started with photography. My main subjects had been portraits and high school seniors. So, on a whim I reached out to the local Roice-Hurst Humane Society and got in contact with the director and now good friend, Anna Stout. I told her I had never photographed pets before, and I would love to volunteer to try and photograph dramatic portraits of shelter pets. To my excitement she agreed, and that started one of the most rewarding partnerships and projects I have ever done with my photography. Since we began, Roice-Hurst has now used the images we’ve created on both of their vans. We even put together a calendar for 2021 and 2022 and are in the process of creating a new calendar for 2023. I hope you enjoy these images as much as I had creating them. Besides the puppies with the camera and the poodle, the rest were shelter pets.

James Lout is a portrait and pet photographer in Grand Junction, Colorado. He started his business in 2013 in Tucumcari, NM and moved to Grand Junction in the summer of 2015. He specializes in dramatic and artistic portraits. jameslout.com

Originally published in the Summer 2022 issue of Spoke+Blossom.