Lulu – Sydney Professional Studio Pet Photography

Lulu – Sydney Professional Studio Pet Photography

Lulu's order went home at the weekend so now I can share this video of her people's favourites. She was such a delight to work with so it was nice to hear they plan to do it again when she's older (she was only 6mos here). A video of the printed pieces is at the end....

read more
Oskar & Evie – Sydney Dog Photos

Oskar & Evie – Sydney Dog Photos

Meet Oskar and Evie, they had a studio session with me in June and pretty much nailed every pose I asked them to do. Little legends. Click the cog wheel to select the best resolution. If you’d like to celebrate your pet’s colourful personality with beautiful artworks...

read more
Frankie & Penny – Canberra Pet Photographer

Frankie & Penny – Canberra Pet Photographer

Some favourites from my recent Autumn shoot in Canberra. It was Frankie's third time in front of my camera but I hadn't even met Penny yet. They both did so good, posing in very some difficult places with lots of distractions. Even though Penny took off after a rabbit...

read more
Kira – Sydney Pet Photographer

Kira – Sydney Pet Photographer

Kira wasn't quite five months old when she had her studio session recently. When she's not busy winning titles in the show ring she's a very good (not so) little dog model. After the slideshow is a video of the finished artworks - an acrylic Superia wall collection, a...

read more
Shane, Amanda, Timon & Benson | Sydney Dog Photos

Shane, Amanda, Timon & Benson | Sydney Dog Photos

Before watching this let me make something very clear ... I don't shoot weddings! I will however do a photoshoot with your dogs while you're dressed in your wedding gear, because the dogs aren't invited to the main event. This was such a fun morning, thank you for...

read more
Elwood & Murphy | Sydney Pet Photographer

Elwood & Murphy | Sydney Pet Photographer

I was a little nervous going into my session with Elwood and Murphy. Their people led me to believe they were going to make a holy show of me, but they did the complete opposite! I dare say, like myself, they think there is much room for improvement in their dogs'...

read more
Meet Bessy – sydney puppy photographer

Meet Bessy – sydney puppy photographer

Introducing the very independent and headstrong Miss Bessy ❤ You may remember Lurch who I photographed several times and I posted about him passing away last year. He left a Dogue de Bordeaux shaped hole in his people's world and even though they went from six dogs to...

read more
Remembering Windy | Sydney Dog Photographer

Remembering Windy | Sydney Dog Photographer

Windy had an unknown amount of time left when I was booked to photograph her. She was terminally ill with cancer and there were no treatment options. As I was driving to Windy, Archie (who you may recognise from my Tails of Sydney book) and Echo's home for their...

read more
KIP Lonely Bark Club – sydney dog photographer

KIP Lonely Bark Club – sydney dog photographer

I don't often get asked to photograph two dogs eating a piece of spaghetti, on site at their daycare, while all the other dogs for the day were playing in the other pens behind me! Thankfully, because that's a really really hard brief. But I managed to get that and...

read more
Recent Sessions 12.23 – Sydney Dog Photography

Recent Sessions 12.23 – Sydney Dog Photography

Meet some of the dogs that have had sessions recently – the first six are my friend Ruth's dogs who came to model some collars for my other business Ruffined Designs, next up is Ace, then Boho the Frenchie and Darby (who was adopted from Fetching Dogs) ... ⁣ Click on...

read more

about ruth

Based in Sydney, Ruth O’Leary, is one of Australia’s most sought after dog photographers. She takes colourful and emotive photographs of dogs in stunning locations. Since the launch of Ruthless Photos in 2008 her images have brought tears of joy to hundreds of loving pet owners across the globe.

If you’d like to find out more please contact Ruth today.

commercial projects

If you are an agency, publisher or pet business looking for stock imagery or custom photography please head over to my commercial pet photography site.

as seen on…

About Ruth

Based in Sydney, Ruth O’Leary, is one of Australia’s most sought after dog photographers. She takes colourful and emotive photographs of dogs in stunning locations. Since the launch of Ruthless Photos in 2008 her images have brought tears of joy to hundreds of loving pet owners across the globe. If you’d like to find out more please contact Ruth today.