Welcome to Gondolin Photography

Update 2/6/08: Additional pictures posted for the GRCA 2007 National Specialty.

ALERT - as of 1/10/2008, I am suspending taking on new orders. I have limited time for the photo projects at hand and I am not being as successful as I would like in delivering all of them. It's a case too much work and being spread too thin. If you have already placed your order, it will be filled. If you'd like to cancel your order, please drop me a note; it will save me some unnecesary work. Once I have cleared my tasks and outstanding jobs, I'll start taking new orders on again. I apologize for having to do this, but I feel it is required at this time.

Update 1/11/08: Sweepstakes picturers have been posted for the GRCA 2007 National Specialty.

Update 8/30/07: Gearing up for the GRCA 2007 National Specialty. Here's some shots taken at Nisqually KC on August 12, 2007, including some pictures of Soliel.

Update 7/1/07: Some progress on the 2007 FCRSA Specialty. And for a brief interlude, I photographed the Golden Retrievers at the Bell Vernon KC today as part of an exerise to test out my new camera.

Update 6/16/07: Well, we're back from the 2007 FCRSA Specialty. 27,000 pictures to sort.

Update 5/18/06: All pictures, including all Field from the FCRSA 2006 Flat-Coat Specialty are now posted.

Update 12/26/06: A little bit of progress on the FCRSA 2006 Flat-Coat Specialty pictures.

Update 12/25/06: The website was moved to a new server. Hopefully it will crash less frequently. I think I must have a bad RAM chip or something in the old one.

Update 12/24/06: The 2008 FCRSA Specialty website is up.

Update 11/28/06: More progress on the FCRSA 2006 Flat-Coat Specialty pictures. Sweeps are now up.

Update 11/6/06: Acrobat has GM'd, so my time is freeing up a bit.

Update 9/21/06: Got some e-mails from folks wondering how pictures were coming along. Unfortunately, I have't done too much lately photography-related. Primarily because of the crunch at work leading up to this. I hope to get back to picture processing soon. Thanks for being patient!

Update 8/6/06: We did a photo shoot of some of our young horses. It was a long day: Sandee, Chelsea, and Cindy spent all day getting them ready and we were taking pictures at midnight. Some fairly dramatic low-key lighting. Here are a few samples, not edited at all (except for crop).

Update 8/6/06: Finally completed editing and posting the last few pictures for the FCRSC (Canada) 2005 Flat-Coat specialty. Back to working on the FCRSA 2006 Flat-Coat Speciality pictures now.

Update 6/25/06: The FCRSA06 site now has a status page for Judge and Ribbon processing.

Update 6/18/06: Evergreen Golden Retriever Club 2006 Regional Specialty pictures are up. Click here for pictures from other Golden Retriever Shows.

Update 5/25/06: Started up the web page for the FCRSA 2006 Flat-Coat Speciality. Bookmark that page and check for updates there.

Update 4/28/06: All pictures from the FCRSA 2005 Flat-Coat Specialty are now posted.

Update 4/24/06: Made some more progress on the FCRSA 2005 Flat-Coat Specialty field pics. All the WC and all Hunt test pics are now up. The 2-4th round Field Trial pics are still pending. Thanks for being so patient. I'll try and get them all up before we leave for St. Louis.

Update 4/9/06: Progress on the FCRSA 2005 Flat-Coat Specialty field pics. All the WC and SH pics are now up.

Welcome to Gondolin Photography

by Christopher Butler