Category: Blog

Today I attended the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Southern Ocean County Animal Facility (FOSCAF), the nonprofit organization that provides volunteers who walk dogs, care for cats, facilitate rescues, and do all sorts of other super-human feats that make life better (and, in some cases, make life POSSIBLE!) for dogs and cats who find [...]

A few years ago Chase Jarvis, one of my photographic role models, created an iPhone app called “The Best Camera is the One You Have With You”.  It was around the time that the cameras in the iPhone and other mobile devices were evolving into machines that could capture respectable pictures.  Chase’s idea, and it [...]

During the holidays a number of people gave their friends or family a gift certificate for a photo session with me.  My friend Sue and her German Shorthaired Pointer Belmont extended such a gift to Belmont’s veterinarians as a big thank you for all of the ways they helped Belmont battle through his challenges.  A [...]

Oh, time.  Where do you go and how do you go there so fast? I realize that I have been woefully negligent about keeping up with the blog.  Facebook and Twitter can make you soft.  Just three years ago the blog was the only way to share my photos with the world.  In fact, blogging [...]

Great leaders and thinkers have offered same message in their own words: “To educate our people, and especially our children, to humane attitudes and actions toward living things is to preserve and strengthen our national heritage and the moral values we champion in the world.”  ~John F. Kennedy “Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard [...]

‘Tis the season to…stress out trying to meaningful gifts for the special people in our lives!  If you’re looking for something unique and meaningful for an “animal person” in your life I have two suggestions. Idea #1: Because Someone Rescued Me… is filled with photographs of cats and dogs and their humans and tells the [...]

Want to send the best holiday card ever?  Looking for a unique gift for the pet lover in your life?  Our photographs are a great way to capture your pet’s personality and spirit, and you will cherish the images forever.  It’s not too early to book your holiday photo session with Michael Bagley Photography. The [...]

I had a great string of days recently.  Schooner days, to be specific. They began with the opportunity to sail with the good captain and crew of the 125′ schooner Spirit of Massachusetts.  Owned and operated by Ocean Classrooms Foundation, Spirit provides educational programs to universities, high schools and community organizations.  This fall her mission [...]

On Saturday afternoon, October 22nd from 2 – 4 PM, Wildflowers Too gallery in Barnegat Light will host a “Don’t Shop, Adopt” Wine and Cheese Reception to honor and raise money for the Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter in Manahawkin. Cricket Luker, owner of Wildflowers Too and a member of the Friends of the SOCAS, [...]

If you’ve been following this blog in 2011 you know that we have been frequent flyers at the Southern Ocean County Animal Facility in Manahawkin.  The local shelter is where stray and surrendered animals land and are evaluated and put up for adoption.  Since February we have made weekly visits to photograph the available dogs [...]