Photographer Johanna Siegmann has documented the love between people and their pets in her beautiful, lavish, fun-filled book of incomparable images of notable people with their pets. And, February 20th was Love Your Pet Day. Well, really what day is not?
What do you know about a person with a pet. Lots! People with their pets are loving, doting, loyal, welcoming and giving. With pets there is no shame, no ego. People at any station in life never seem too inhibited to make goofy faces or be caught talking baby-talk or just plain gibberish to their pets. What she has to say about gibberish and communicating with pets is beyond delightful and not at all surprising.
Her book In Good Company (Notable People With Their Pets) is available at all online retailers worldwide to lift your heart and remind you of the joy a pet can add to a life. Not, by the way, just dogs but cats, rats, snakes, and a donkey; she has photographed 27 different species of pets. Why are the photographs in this book so calming? She will tell you.
Love letters? You bet. And, as photography is a way of communication all its own, listen to her plans for future books on pets at various stages of life. I smiled and choked back tears.
What she has to say about people and pets is an ongoing teaching about people about pets and about the love and energy between them. You can see in her every facial expression that she is having what people sometimes call way too much fun. I had way too much fun just seeing what she does. You probably will, too.
