Cute dog pictures in travel photography? Well, yes! Travel photography is many things. Its aim is to bring a person to a remote location, and a photographer is free to choose the means. Travel photography may include street, landscape, architecture, portrait, documentary etc. Dogs are a part of everyday life and deserve their place in travel photography. Also photographing them is easy, because, unlike humans, they don’t care. And they don’t pose for a photo as well.

I was inspired to make the post with the dog pictures by one National Geographic book. It is called “Dog Stories” and has a collection of dog images from all around the world, showing dogs as pets, dogs at work and dog breeding as a business.

Here, I would like to show my collection of some cute dog pictures, all in the context of travel photography accompanied by a short story.

Husky farm in Lapland

During my visit to Lapland, we made it to a husky farm. It is surprising, how the dogs live outside at such low temperatures, when I was in Lapland, It went down to -35°C (-31°F) at night. But husky is very well adapted to it, and there are more than a hundred huskies living outside. Visitors can have a farm tour and can play a little bit with the dogs. From there you can also take a husky safari. We took the one that takes a couple of hours.

A rescue dog called “Luxury” at Ladoga lake

In St. Petersburg, Russia, Ladoga lake is one of the most popular city escapes. It was especially popular during the hot summer 2018. Together with Couchsurfing St. Petersburg I went there camping. One of the Couchsurfers brought a dog called “Luxury”. He felt like it is his duty to take bring out of the water. Each time someone went to the lake, he would swim next to you and try to save you.

Pets in Lapland

I love winters in Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland. Snow falls down in autumn and stays the whole winter (unlike South with wet snow). Outside the city center, there are not many city lights and everything is in calm white tones. The pace of life is slow there. Many people live in Rovaniemi because of closeness to nature and spend a lot of time outside. They seem to be together with their pets more than usual, often going for long walks.

More about non-touristic Rovaniemi and traveling Lapland in this post.

Sausage dog

In the Finnish language, the dachshund is called “Makkara-koira” Makkara-sausage, koira-dog. We went camping in the archipelago islands of Espoo (Southern Finland, very close to Helsinki). There was a Finnish couple with the dog called “Dennis”. The dog was pretty old and was having rest most of the time cute dog pictures

Sausage dog got so tired, that it didn’t want any sausages. cute dog pictures

Lucy goes to see the world

This little shy dog was really used to her home, but since she changed the owner – she got the whole bunch of adventures. The new owner carried here everywhere. She was on the World Village Festival, visited the asylum seekers demonstration, went around Juhannus festival celebration and much more.

If the post receives a good feedback, I will continue adding more cute dog pictures to this post. Follow my FB photo page for dog stories’ updates.

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