How Do I Find My Dog’s Proofs?

If you’ve been to an event or portrait session that I was photographing, there are a couple of ways to find out when the proofs are available. I will:

1. send out an email alert to everyone on the proof notification list and also tweet when the proofs have been posted to the gallery
2. write a blog posting when the proofs have been added to the searchable photo catalog

If you can’t wait, you can look for your dog’s proofs as follows:

Shortly After the Event

When I put up our proofs, I first add them to browseable galleries. This way the proofs are available relatively quickly. You don’t have to wait while I go through all the database entry. You can find them by following these quick steps:

1. Click Proofs, browse proofs in the navigation bar at the top of any page.
2. Find the year the proofs were take (the most recent are at the top of the page)
3. Find the type of event (Agility, Obedience, etc.) and click that link
4. Find your event, click that link
5. Click view the gallery

Click view the gallery to go to the browseable proof gallery

This will take you to the browseable gallery for that event. You will then need to find the day you were competing (if it’s a multi-day trial) and your class to look for your dog. Unfortunately, you can not search the proofs by dog name yet. That comes next.

One Week+ After Event

The Search the Event box appears when the event proofs can be searched.

The next step is to identify each dog by call name and/or registered name and breed. This, as you would imagine, takes time.

How can you tell if an event has been added to the searchable photo catalog? When the proofs are searchable, a mini search box will be shown in the right column on that event’s page (see right). Also, the “view the gallery” link will be replaced by a list of classes photographed on each day of the trial.

To find and view just your dog’s proofs, enter their name (as shown on the run list or event catalog) and search. To narrow it to only your dog’s name AND breed, then include the breed. This search box will ONLY search the proofs for this event.

If you’d like to browse through the proofs, that option is available as well. Simply follow the steps as above until you get to your event’s page, then choose your dog’s class to browse the thumbnails. Page numbering and next/previous are at the bottom of the page.

That’s it!

If you have a question, please leave a note.

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