Irwin Photography

12/21/2024

Rocky Top Winter Classic Saturday photos and Dutch Shepherd Nationals photos will be up soon! 📸

12/20/2024

Coming Soon...

Photography for the 2024 Rocky Top Winter Classic Mondioring Trial and Dutch Shepherd National Championship!

11/29/2024

The shots like these are what drew me to photography. Job well done after a stunning IGP1 track.

11/29/2024

11/26/2024

The blind search. In the sport of IGP, the dog must conduct a directed search of 6 blinds on the field in order to locate the helper. This female Belgian Malinois shows excellent diligence and checking of each blind.

11/26/2024

"Joy in work, devotion to duty, and to master." - Max von Stephanitz, founder of the German Shepherd Breed

11/26/2024

"The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs." - Max von Stephanitz

11/26/2024

"The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness." - Max von Stephanitz

This female German Shepherd exhibits powerful and intense guarding of the helper in the sport of Schutzhund.

10/23/2024

"The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be." - Konrad Lorenz

The incredible bond and pure joy shared between Mia MR1 and owner/handler Addy Sanchez is palpable.

10/23/2024

Doberman Pinscher Valarosa's I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby "Duke" owned and handled by Rick Neeley performing the send away exercise.

Photo taken at Rocky Top Dog Sports in Oklahoma.

10/22/2024

"The dog essentially thinks through his nose." - Captain Max von Stephanitz, founder of the German Shepherd Dog breed.

Pictured is Allee, owned and handled by Belinda Stephens, alerting to odor.