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About The Good Doctor

In 1989 I ‘temporarily’ moved to Utah to attend the University of Utah. Then I just never left. I received my Ph.D. in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism from the U., and now work in the School of Medicine as a biostatistician (aka Stats Boffin). I know, about as far as pet photography as you can imagine, right? After I got settled as a boring grown-up, I began volunteering for Salt Lake County Animal Services. Ten years later, I’m still joyfully photographing adoptable pets there.

I am an avid reader, and with permission, always inspect other people’s bookshelves to see what they are reading. I enjoy science fiction, and fantasy as well as non-fiction science and history, although given the chance I will read just about anything.

But in addition to my inside hobbies, I’m also a hiker, cross-country skier, and snowshoe enthusiast. Previously I’ve done stints as a ski instructor and ski racer, as well as an autocross racer and a cyclist. I blame living in Park City for the past 20 years for my somewhat obsessive desire to go fast on snow, dirt and pavement. But I’m not often on my own, as my husband or one or all of our 3 dogs, Daisy, Lucy-Fur, and Bellatrix are usually in-tow.

Me in Saudia City in 1985, after a rare, massive rain storm

I BELIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MORE THAN JUST A LIKENESS OF PLACES & THINGS; THEY ARE LIVING MEMORIES THAT AWAKEN THE SENSES AND TRANSPORT YOU TO THE PAST.

I grew up in Saudi Arabia, and before we left the country, I bicycled around our community, taking photos with my little Kodak Instamatic. I wanted to remember the place I grew up in. I still have some of those photographs (thank goodness for film cameras and everything getting printed). When I flip through them I can actually still feel the heat and humidity of the desert, and the gritty sand mingling with sweat on my skin.

I BELIEVE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE GIFTS TO OUR FUTURE SELVES AND TO FUTURE GENERATIONS

When I got married (I may have married my husband for his dogs. (Ssssh don’t tell him!) we got our first puppy together, Fiona. I discovered how much I loved photographing dogs when I started a personal blog to share with my family the photos I took of Fi and her adventures. At the time I didn’t realize I was documenting her life as well as the life of my entire family, but 15 years later, that blog feels like a priceless time capsule that chronicles her entire life – and the lives of her siblings.

I BELIEVE THE VALUE OF PHOTOGRAPHS INCREASES EXPONENTIALLY OVER TIME

I lost Fiona in 2020 to GI lymphoma, a month after we went into ‘lock-down’ for the pandemic. She was nearly 12. Having lost her younger sister Abby to cancer several years before, I grateful for the lesson of just how valuable the photos of their lives were – and still are. Rather than only having a few slightly sad photos of the girls as their illnesses were catching up to them, I have a lifetime of their antics, adventures and derpiness at my fingertips.

In photographs, our pets are alive, bouncing through life, and living each moment to the fullest.

Our dogs teach us a lot about how to live in the moment, but they have also taught me that photographs make it possible to paddle upstream in the river of time and revisit the rich experiences from the past.

This is what I want to give to you. A portal back to the goodness of these moments you’re living now.

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About The Good Doctor

I BELIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MORE THAN JUST A LIKENESS OF PLACES & THINGS; THEY ARE LIVING MEMORIES THAT AWAKEN THE SENSES AND TRANSPORT YOU TO THE PAST.

I BELIEVE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE GIFTS TO OUR FUTURE SELVES AND TO FUTURE GENERATIONS

I BELIEVE THE VALUE OF PHOTOGRAPHS INCREASES EXPONENTIALLY OVER TIME

801-712-3200

liz@timepunkpetphotography.com

Park City, Utah 84098