Dana Animal Photography

I would like, if I may, to show you the photographs of Dana Wimpfheimer and let her do the talking about herself. It is clear that Dana has a love of animals and has expressed a desire to do more cat photography. This is a profession that I know a bit about from my past work as a professional photographer and my association with Helmi Flick. That is why I would like to promote her fine photography on PoC.

Here is a short autobiographical résumé:

“I have always had a real love of animals. We always had a collection of pets in our home – dogs, cats, guinea pigs, mice, lizards, etc. I started riding horses as a young girl and at the age of 20 I developed an interest both in photography and in galloping racehorses.

They kind of went hand in hand, so I started taking photos at steeplechase meets and selling them to the jockeys and owners.

Late in my twenties, I met my husband and we started a business training the horses ourselves. This was very time consuming and as a result, I didn’t have much time for photography.

Dana Animal Photography

Unfortunately, I had some nasty accidents – it can be a rough sport! About 10 years ago, my husband decided to switch to transporting horses and I trained the one horse that we kept. When she was retired, I decided to stop galloping horses for a living, as old injuries had caught up with me.  I had to have several surgeries to repair the damage done to my body and still suffer from arthritis. That was when I went back to photography. I am now taking photos of horses training in the morning and have done fairly well with that.

Dana Animal PhotographyI still wanted to try and do more photos of cats and dogs. A friend of mine, David Brownlee (he trains racehorses and also owns Gone Wild Bengals) had me take pictures of his Bengals and I was smitten!

I am still gaining experience and enjoying it immensely.  For example, I am planning to go watch Helmi at the show in Atlanta.

David introduced me to Helmi’s work and asked her if she would mind if I called her for some advice. I emailed her and she set up a time for me to call. I had a wonderful conversation with both her and Ken.”

I hope you enjoy Dana’s animal photography as much as I do.

To contact her and to commission Dana Animal Photography, please use this email address: danabw@att.net

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