Challenges...

Photographing wasn't going to be easy as you might have noticed that the above behind the scenes images are at night.

Yes, the beagles were arriving at night, which if you're a photographer, you know that this requires as much constant light as you can possibly muster, no strobes or flash (the beagles coming from these situations are very sensitive), fast glass (we used our 85mm f/1.2, and high ISO. To be able to have eyes and nose of the beagles in focus and to stop motion as much as possible, we were shooting at f/5.6, 1/500 and whereever the ISO needed to be, often above 10,000 and sometimes as high as 25,600.

It was past 11 pm when we were finally able to start opening crates and letting each pup enjoy his or first step of freedom.