The business of pet photography draws many people who have experienced loss, the kind of loss that leaves a hole that often feels like it can never be filled.
 
We may come from other genres of photography, landscape or wedding and family portraiture. We look at our cameras and know it's the tool that gave us so many great images of our own dogs.

But we never turned the cameras on ourselves.
 
We never got the great portraits of us and our dogs together.
 
Then they were gone. Our best fur friends posed for our cameras no more. And we were left with silly selfies, digital dust in the bottomless ocean of our social media feeds.
 
And then we decide to change that for other people. We make a conscious decision to ensure humans have amazing portraits of themselves with their best fur friends.
 
Printed on their walls or in beautiful photo albums.
 
My guest today, Nancy Kieffer, is no different.
 
When her Midnight died of lymphoma at 4, she realized there was more than landscapes that she had to do with her camera.
 
She started volunteering for rescues in Syracuse, New York, and then Nancy Kieffer Photography was born.
 
She shares that journey with us today.
 
What to Listen For
4:58 The event that kept Nancy from being a veterinarian
9:05 Midnight's devastating diagnosis
10:39 The guilt Nancy felt from thinking she didn't do enough
13:45 Finding comfort and laughter in Midnight's memories
19:42 Becoming a pet loss grief specialist with One Last Network
24:20 How Nancy brings meaning to her work
 
Where to Find Nancy
Nancy Kieffer Photography
Instagram

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