Sarah Beth Ernhart – Pet Photographer Writing/Essay/Journal Sarah Beth Ernhart loves her job making portraits of pets. She especially enjoys observing the relationship between owner and animal and specializes in end of life portrait session for terminally ill and old pets. Write about a relationship you’ve had with a pet. If you’ve never had a pet, write about an animal you’d like to have as a pet, whether it’s a hermit crab or a puppy. What characteristics of that animal lends itself to the type of relationship you are able to have with it?

Activity Imagine you are a professional photographer with a specialty. Would you choose to photograph pets, sports, flowers, people, furniture, clothes, abstract designs or something else, and why? Take ten photos of the subject you picked. Where you able to capture the essence of it?