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Portrait Photography: Five Simple Ideas For Photographing Dogs

teacher avatar Paul Wilkinson, Portrait Photographer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      2:33

    • 2.

      CH1 - Using An Alleyway To Create Depth

      5:37

    • 3.

      CH2 - Looking For Opportunities To Include The Owner

      2:39

    • 4.

      CH3 - Using Openings And Archways For Light And Structure

      5:13

    • 5.

      CH4 - Using Overhanging Trees For Perfect Light

      2:54

    • 6.

      CH5 - Don't Forget To Let The Dogs Play!

      4:01

    • 7.

      CH6 - Looking For Things You Hadn't Noticed

      2:19

    • 8.

      CH7 - Using Studio Lighting

      1:28

    • 9.

      Outro And Thank You

      2:09

    • 10.

      Outtakes

      3:55

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In this class, we step through five different ideas (and a couple of bonus ideas for good measure) for creating stunning portraits of our best friends! Each of the chapters describes in detail, how and why we approached each shot and, apart from the last bonus idea, you don't need anything other than daylight, a camera and a little imagination.  For the final chapter, you might need a little studio lighting!

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Paul Wilkinson

Portrait Photographer

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Hi, I'm Paul Wilkinson -- portrait photographer, author, educator, and host of the Mastering Portrait Photography podcast.

With over two decades behind the camera, I've built a multi-award-winning studio just outside Oxford, working with everyone from families and business leaders to celebrities and the occasional uncooperative dog. I'm also the Partner Photographer to Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, and a proud Brand Ambassador for Graphistudio, Elinchrom Lighting, and Pixellu Smart Albums.

As an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photography (and a Fellow of both the BIPP and SWPP), I've judged international photography awards and earned titles like UK Portrait Photographer of the Year and Best Solo Portrait at the PMI-Gear Global Portrait Compe... See full profile

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1. Intro: Well, if I'm brutally honest, there's nothing I like more than creating portraits, mostly of people, but equally of dogs having spent the past decade working with hearing dogs here in the UK. And I've won as many awards, and I'm as well known for our dog portrait photography as I am for the human form. And in this class, we're going to take five ideas for photographing dogs and their owners. I'm Paul Wilkinson, an award winning photographer based here in the UK. And in this class, we're going to take the simplest of kit, one camera, one lens, one dog, one owner, a bag of treats as it turns out. Quite a lot of dog slobber, and we're going to go out and see what we can create just using daylight, the environment, our eyes, and our ideas. For this class, we have Elton, who is a hearing dog stud, lucky boy. And we have Sarah, his owner, and we're going to take the pair of them out into the village, no more than a couple of hundred meters from our studio door and just see what we can create. The weather today, well, the weather today is up and down, but what we do know is it's going to be hot. It's gonna be over 24 degrees. Now if you live in other parts of the world with hot climates, 24 degrees doesn't seem like much, but that is the threshold for dog welfare, where we have to start being just a little bit careful of how much time we spend, particularly on hot tarmac or out in the open sun. So we're going to keep an eye on that. And what I want to capture in this class is the joy of the dog, the beauty of dogs. I've got a dog. I love being around dogs. And so it's it's a really lovely thing to be able to create unique and stunning portraits. So today, I want to create interesting and beautiful pictures of Elton, he's a gorgeous dog, but also the relationship between Sarah. Four years ago, I worked with Sarah to take pictures of Elton as a puppy. I was working with hearing dogs. We were out in the open. It was during a lockdown, if you remember, a small little thing called COVID. We were out in the open taking pictures. And little did either of us know that that one puppy would become Sarah's lifelong companion. So I want to create some pictures that capture just a little bit of that. We're going to find some interesting lights. We're going to find some unique locations, and we're going to do it quickly, and we're going to do it safely, but we're still going to create some amazing images. Without any further ado, let's leap straight in to the first of those ideas. 2. CH1 - Using An Alleyway To Create Depth: So for this first idea, we're just going to use an alleyway. Now most of us have some kind of alleyway near us, whether it's a green lane, whether it's a footpath, or whether it's a brick alleyway in a town. This particular alleyway is cobbled, and it has some pretty old walls in it, but it's in our village and it's less than 100 meters from the studio. And of course, timing is part of the puzzle. We need to do things that the dog is comfortable with and that we are efficient in doing. So I've seen the alleyway, and the way the light is running is absolutely Perfect. Oh, nearly. We've got a bright overcast day. But what do I mean by that? I mean, there's cloud, plenty of it, but it's quite thin cloud. So we're getting shadows. We've got shape to the light. You know where the sun is. If you look at the sky, you can see it. But it's cast in these really soft edged shadows. And when the overcast just increases a little, the contrast levels, the difference between the shadows and the bright spots diminishes, which is perfect. So the alleyway is pretty good. They're going to frame along the path. I'm going to take the dog. I'm going to put it in a position where all of the lines, the lines of the edges of the cobbles, the lines of the tops of the plants, and the lines of the walls all sort of form this corridor that disappears into the distance, and that helps bring the eye into the shot. Now, the problem here is that the sun is coming from camera right across the walls. So one wall is in shade and one wall is in bright sunshine, at least it is when the clouds pass by. So we're having to kind of just think that through a little bit. So what I've done is I've found a position where the camera is low on the ground. I'm going to climb into the dog's world. I always think that's more exciting. So the camera is down low and I've pushed it across to the side of the path into the sort of foliage and things that are down there to try and eliminate any of the wall that is lit by the sun. Why am I doing that? Because if I include that in the frame, it's going to be bright. It's probably going to blow out. So I don't really want that to happen. I don't mind a few bits and pieces showing through, but I certainly don't want as much wall on the left hand side of the image as there is on the right. Got the camera down low. Now, that gives me another slight problem. It's lovely down there. It's a different view. It's the view of the world as the dog would see it. But now if I tip the camera back to point it at the dog, I've got sky in the distance, and the trouble with a bright overcast day is that just goes to white. So I'm going to have to just figure my angles out. And if you in the video, you can see me sort of moving the camera around, trying to find that spot where it's still low. It still has all of the lines I wanted. It still feels like I'm in the dog's world, but that bit of sky hasn't dropped down into the frame. It's a balancing act as it always is in photography, but those are the things that are going on. I've got the leading lines, the floor, the dog's world, that sort of anthropomorphic thing going on with the characteristic of the dog. But I'm trying really hard not to let the sky creep in. For this shot, we've got Elton's collar off. Now, when we're working, we will work with the dog's collar on as we move around from scene to scene because the dog's safety is paramount. But as soon as we've got the shot set and everyone's happy, Sarah is really good with Elton, and Elton will do anything for Sarah. This is Sarah, his owner. So there's no danger here, and Sarah's really comfortable that we have control and the dog is safe. Soon as we're happy, the collar can come off, and then we can start to think about getting the picture. Now, the dog is dark. Elton is a chock lab, chock lab. Now when you have a dark dog, one of the tricks is to allow the image to expose just a little bit brighter, to bring out details in the fur. The extreme, of course, would be something like a black lab, where the only way you're going to get any detail in the dog at all is if you over expose the image ever so slightly. But I'm still trying to keep an eye on it. I'm still trying to make sure my histogram is contained. I'm not blowing out any of those highlights, but I'm just going to lift the exposure a little bit. And then it's relatively easy to get a sitting shot, a lying down shot, and of all things, a slow walk. I have never, ever photographed a dog that can do on command a slow walk. Now, I have a dog who's quite capable of walking slowly, but usually when you're trying to take him somewhere he doesn't want to go, it certainly isn't because he'll get a treat for plodding along at the pace of a snail. Elton will do it, and of course, we've taken advantage of that. To get the dog's ears forward, again, I'll keep coming back to this throughout this video, anthropomorphism. You want the dog to look cute, preferably almost humansque. And in doing that, one of the tricks to doing that is to get the dog's ears forward to get his attention and also with a big slobbery dog like Elton, to get his jaw to snap closed, because if I can do that, then it just kind of looks better overall. He's not one of those dogs. Some of the Spaniels have a smiley face when they've got their mouth open. Elton doesn't, really, so we're going to try and keep his mouth closed. And so the trick is to get Sarah, who's now right behind is to get her to do things that he will pay attention to. So usually it's to get a treat, pretend to throw it, wave it around, put it down behind the camera. So we're trying to get him engaged. We're trying to get him to pay attention because the minute he sees that treat, the minute he doesn't know where the treat is, the minute he thinks he might get it if he can work out where the treat is, his ears will come forward. He'll be attentive. He'll snap his jaw closed, and I can get my shot. It's a very easy shot to do. It's done within, like I said, 100 meters of our studio, and this is just one idea of the next four or five. 3. CH2 - Looking For Opportunities To Include The Owner: So this is idea number two. Now, as Katie, our Estwhile film editor, producer director pointed out, I'm being called instinctive as a photographer because it sounds more markety than easily distracted. But the fact of it is, I'm easily distracted. So as I turned around, having just photographed Elton, Sarah was leaning against a wall in the alleyway, and the lights, the location, the colors, everything about it was the kind of photography that I adore. So, yeah, alright, it wasn't on the plane, and that's why we might have a few more ideas in this video than the original five that were listed. But that's the way it goes. You want to love what you do. You want to create images that excite you. And if it's there in front of you, then well, why wouldn't you? So the light is pinging around on this day. It's really bright, but we're in between two taller buildings when I'm shooting in this direction. I'm stood more or less in the same place that I was for shot number one. I'm just 180 degrees rotated. And there are these beautiful walls to the cottages here. And there are basically four tones of the same color, and that all seems to just work for me. It's not perfect. There's our drain pipe, which is frankly not attractive. But I do like the little window with it's got bars in it like a little prism, which of course is just for security. Just for people breaking in the I assume for people breaking out. But I quite like the storytelling. It's really old, it's rustic. I'm not a huge fan of the modern barn like structure in the background. But if I slip the camera, if I set the aperture to 2.8 wide open, then that would drop to more or less a blur. So Sarah's in this shot. I've got her leaning against the wall. But of course, if she's there, I've got no one to control Elton. So what we're gonna do, we're gonna place Elton next to Sarah, and she can do that bit of it. But if I want his attention, then I'm going to have to do that's using some kind of device. Usually, if you use a whistle, the dog comes running to you. So you can't do that, but Elton's better trained. He was, after all, a hearing dog. He's now a hearing dog stud Go Elton. But if you whistle him, he just looks at you because I'm not Sarah, so he won't come to my command, but he is curious as to what I'm doing. So a quick whistle, he'll do a look, not a recall. And I think in the end, this shot with all the little variations will make a fantastic monochrome. That's idea too of, well, however many we get to. 4. CH3 - Using Openings And Archways For Light And Structure: So as is always the case with a portrait shoot, it's really a little bit of a journey just as it is with this idea number three. So we've walked down the Alley Way, turn a corner, and there it is. I hadn't expected to see it, but it's there. And that's the joy of it, discovering images or the ideas for images that are right there in front of you. I've seen this beautiful arch that's formed by the overgrown hedge or the overgrown hedges, I guess, reaching across from both sides of the alley. And it casts its beautiful shadow down onto the ground. Now, here, if you look along the alleyway, in the sunshine, when the sun is at its strongest, you can see shadow the light and then shadow than light, and of course, there's this patch of darkness where the sunlight cannot get through the hedge, and I'm betting that that will make a great photograph. Now, at this point, I've got two possible ways the shot will work. And right now, even as I record this video, I don't know which way that's going to go. It could be that the light in the background, the sunlight in the background, as Sarah and Elton pass through the arch will create such a strong backlight that I can create a silhouette of the two of them under the arch. Equally, I could expose for them as the light flattens out a little bit, maybe the clouds just skidding across, then maybe I can use the light to drag detail out of the two of them. I don't know which way it will go, but both of those ideas have a certain appeal. So if you notice the way the sun is moving and changing, the light is constantly changing. So what I'm asking the guys to do is repeatedly just walk up and through this archway, away from me and back towards me, away from me, and back towards me. Now, I've got Sarah. So when you're photographing someone walking, particularly if there's a feminine sort of look to it, it's best to try and get the feet to walk along a line. It's easy enough to show them how to do it. But what it creates is this nice form down to the ground. It creates sort of a nicer shape, I suppose. And if you hit the button as their feet make contact with the ground, you have this lovely contact as it turned out, the alleyway or at least the alleyway through the arch is slightly narrower than I thought it was. And so Elton repeatedly tried to either walk behind or ahead, but very rarely could he walk beside Sarah. Now, I didn't foresee that, but it still works as a nice image. When he's ahead of Sarah, it works really well. When he's behind, not so much unless they're walking away. So we've got them to walk backwards and forwards, and I'm just looking for those really lovely little moments. I've taken the camera, and as I love to do when I'm photographing dogs, I've brought it down to ground level, and this time, there's so much heads grow growing out of the top in the distance that I don't need to worry quite so much about whiteness in the sky creeping into the top of my frame. So it's given me options on where I place the camera without being quite so precise as I was in idea number one. So I've taken the camera and I've moved it down to the left, camera left. I've done that because it's creating this sort of scene where the subject, as they pass through that arch, are going to be somewhere on the right hand side of the picture, whether low or high in the frame. I haven't decided when I took the picture. I'm still just working it out as I go. But I know from experience that if I put that into a double page spread of a magazine or if I place it in a big frame, having that really interesting off center composition has a certain appeal to it. Now, when I'm working with the hearing dogs, remember that Elton is a hearing dog or he is a hearing dog stud. So these are the same guys I've been working with the past ten years. I know that they love to have options for laying images out for magazines, for promotional material, for banners, for the websites. But when I'm selling to personal clients, I like to have that same sort of thought process. What would this image look good in because if I can do that, and particularly if I can talk about that during the shoot, who knows, maybe I'll be able to get a sale, and I'm a business. This is a business. This is the creative industry. And I know that sounds a little bit harsh because it should be about the artistry, and it is to an extent about the artistry. But we also as professional photographers, need to be thinking, will I be able to sell this picture? How am I going to recoup my costs? How am I going to be able to make a profit? Hm put food on the table and my kids in trainers? And so thinking about how shots going to be used is good from a creative standpoint but also from a commercial one. So the only problem we had is that Elton kept trying to walk behind Sarah. It took me a while to get the shot where Elton walked beside or a little bit more in front. But there's some interesting shots here, and don't ignore the opportunity to get a shot where the dog's quite close in the frame and you have just the foot or feet of the owner in the background. It still is quite an interesting shot, and it tells a story. And certainly, if you're shooting these kinds of images for commercial use, there's a value in that, too. So with that shot grabbed on we go to ID number four. 5. CH4 - Using Overhanging Trees For Perfect Light: So onto idea four. So this is a very simple shot in every aspect. But it's very typical of what I do is I spot the way light falls and it forms, and it pulls and it moves. And if you learn to read little patches of light like this, basically, there are great shots to be had all around you. So the tree is in full leaf at that time of year, it's sort of the end of August. And because of that, there's an archway underneath the branches, but there's light coming in from the back. There's light going in from the front. It's got this beautiful shape to it. What actually drew me to it wasn't just the pool of light inside that opening is the fact that where the leaf fall has happened, it's gone golden. Now, I'd expect to be looking for that once we get into October, November. However, today, it's dry, it's warm, and there's this golden color coming through. And I just love those colors. Now, when I got Elton into there, I'd expected it just to pop. And it didn't. And I don't really know why. We tried a few bits. It didn't quite work, and sometimes maybe you bail on it, but if you persevere, I was absolutely convinced there was a shot in there, and as it happened, I was right, but it didn't come straight away. What we had to do was move Elton around a little bit, and then I got Sarah to move around a little bit, and I turned his head in different directions to see how the light was playing. But if you look at the light in his eyes, it's perfect. So I knew the shot could work. Sitting up is a noise shot. But really, the magic happened when he lay down on the ground. I say when he lay down, Sarah got him to lay down because we were trying things out. Then I got Sarah to move to the left. When a dog's lying down, they move their head across their body and I love that shape of the shot. If the body is going slightly to the right, I'll get the head also to turn so he's looking out in the same direction, similarly to the left. I just think there's more story, there's more narrative to that. I've opened the camera up to F 2.8, so it's a nice, shallow depth of field. Beautiful cat size in the eyes, admittedly, gallons of slobber. It's like working with some kind of animatronic special effects of an alien. There's just goo coming out of the dog. Now, fortunately, that's not my worry. That's Sarah's worry. And she stepped in and cleaned it up at every opportunity, which is great. If she hadn't and I didn't want to do it, it's actually pretty quick to get rid of it in Photoshop. And, of course, once I've got a shot at the dog and I know everything's working and the light is beautiful, well, this was a great opportunity to put Sarah in the same shot as the dog, which, of course, we did, and that's idea number four. Onto idea number five. 6. CH5 - Don't Forget To Let The Dogs Play!: So here we are onto idea number five. And if I'm honest, this is a shot that I will do on pretty much every shot I run with a dog. And the reason is, it gives the dog a chance to relax. It gives the dog a chance to just play and be a dog. So up to this point, we've been controlling Elton and confining his space and making him sit, making him walk. Where's now? Do you know what? You can go for a sniff and you can go for a run. It's safe. We're working in an enclosed ish space. There's a couple of s out of the orchard, but we know where he's going to be, which gives him a chance to just about be Elton. Hard bit is working out what line I'd like him to run towards or away from. Usually, I will find some kind of alleyway or some kind of pathway through a field, or if I'm in a truly wide open space, what I will do is I'll get the dog settled on a weight, hopefully, if he'll do a weight, and I'll get the owner or the trainer to come right behind my camera and ask the dog to come towards us. And that way, the dog will track straight to the lens. If the dog's weight isn't that strong, what I might do is get the trainer or the owner to stay with the dog, and then one of us will call a dog over. That works most of the time. Occasionally, you'll have a dog with attachment issues, and it gets a little bit trickier. But what you can then do is get the owner to run towards the camera and try and stay separate to the dog, one side or the other. And that way, you'll get at some point, a shot. Now, in the old days, these shots were not easy. But with modern technology, and I'm shooting on a Z nine, I've put it into animal tracking mode. I'll lock onto Elton like nothing. 20 frames a second. So now I can concentrate on making sure that my compositions are where I want them. I can put Elton at the side of the frame, in the middle of the frame. I can just time those bits with the dog motion. It's good. With a labrador, you get that kind of jumping, it's very slow paced sort of lollp Elton's doing his slow walk like a dog and a catwalk you've got all the time in the world. Obviously, with poodles, spaniels, the smaller breeds, they tend to be a little bit more electric, a little bit harder at the time. So but at 20 frames a second, the camera will lock on and I can then get the shot. And even at F 2.8, I know that sufficient of these images will be banging focus that I've got a nice soft background. The sun is behind the dog, so it picks Elton out. Elton's dark coated. So having the sun behind creates a little bit of separation, a little bit of rim light against those dark leaves in the background. With Elton, we got him to walk slowly, and then he broke into a run, but both of those were really, really good. I'm down on the ground. I don't know how many times I got bitten while down in the ground. But I like that camera angle. You'll have seen in some of these shots, I'll just sit and use the flip screen, but I find it much easier when I'm tracking a fast moving animal or a car or something if I'm doing any kind of motion work is it's easier through the viewfinder. I just find it I get better isolation from my surroundings, so I can see exactly what's going on. I can pick out the detail that I'm interested in. So for me, I'm lying down in the grass. I'm trying to pick the height of the camera. If it's too low, I just get this kind of fudgy green in the foreground. So I'm just lifting it a little just on my elbows to separate it from the ground a tad. That way, I get the same sort of sense of being inside the dog's world right there as it's happening, but I haven't got too much interference. I've got a nice soft edge to the frame, but it's not going over and around Elton too much. Really easy shot to do, and the dog will love it. So if you're working with a dog, this is a great way to not only let the dog have fun, but also get incredible pictures. So that was idea number five, but as is the way with me, well, we're going to have a few bonus ideas onto the next one. 7. CH6 - Looking For Things You Hadn't Noticed: Stop. So we've done five ideas, but well, the shoot simply never stops. So this was a shot. We've been discussing through the hot we'd like a shot of Elton peering around a corner, looking through a gate. Some of it just a little bit different. Anyway, we'd stop for lunch, and as it happens, we opened the back door to our studio, and it occurred to me that if Elton just looked around the corner, I'd not only had to get a shot of a peeping dog, but he would also be reflected in the glass as long as I lined my camera up correctly. So I'm down on the floor as usual with photographing dogs. I see to spend my life on the floor in one form or another. I've moved the camera angle really quite close to the glass but not right up against it because I'm looking for the reflection, but we don't have uninterrupted glass on the side of the studio. There's big wooden frames on it, so I have to keep the camera out a little bit so they don't sort of impede. But then the trick was to get Elton to kind of look around the corner. So a lot of trial and error. I've got some beautiful shots of just his nose. But the perfect angle felt to me when Elton just came out a little bit further, there's a shot of his nose and his eyes and just the chest and maybe a leg. And if you look at the tones in the final image, the wall, the floor, the wood, even the reflections in the glass and, of course, the color of Elton are all chocolate tones or all browns of one form or another. And that means I've got a really harmonious image. And I love that. You know from other videos I've made, that's something I look for all the time. Because it has a really cool sense about it. It has this idea or this impression that it's all deliberate. And of course, it is deliberate, but it's not something that you can always get. But here, we've managed to get it. So once we managed to get that moment, and the trick seemed to be this trick seems to be is to have the dog have Elton just behind the edge of the door and then have Sarah by my shoulder, and then she'd make a noise or something and he'd peer out to see what was going on. So a beautiful bonus shot. But as is the way with these things, not the only bonus. With that happy note, we're heading inside. 8. CH7 - Using Studio Lighting: So we've done five ideas. We've had one bonus, which we spotted during lunch. But of course, where would we be without some studio photography? I'm really, really well known for taking pictures of black dogs or really dark dogs and dark backgrounds is something I've always loved doing. So this isn't really an idea as such, though it's a beautiful photograph. So we stepped inside after we'd had some lunch, and I just took a handful of pictures of Elton using a dark background, some very simple side lighting, and a very simple key light. Um, I'm looking for different angles. I'm looking for the way the dog looks. I'm looking for those ears to come forward. I'm looking for catch lights in the eyes. I'm using Sarah to move around to get his attention. I've lit it top down so you have this beautiful wash of light. I like to have my key light quite close to the dog because you get this incredible fall off. Of course, the inverse square law doesn't quite apply with big light sources, but nonetheless, the light is falling away. And I love that. But that's not the purpose of this video. Really what we're doing is teasing you into keeping an eye out when we do a video dedicated entirely to photographing dogs in the studio. But we thought we'd include it here because we did literally step inside from having lunch and thought, Do you know what? With a dog as beautiful as Elton, why the hell, wouldn't you? What a happy way to work. 9. Outro And Thank You: So in this class, we've taken five beautiful moments, so five interesting and easy ideas to create stunning pictures. And we throw them in because, well, why wouldn't you a bonus idea or two. We've used corridors of stone and hedges and walls. We've used light. We've used tonee. We've used archways. We've used the overhang of a tree. We've used the dog's energy, a couple of reflections, and we've even very quickly stepped inside the studio to create something a little bit more classical. On that last note, we will create a video all about photographing dogs in the studio at a later date. So please do keep your eyes and ears open for that one. We really, really, really hope you've enjoyed this class. And if you have two things, firstly, please do create a project of your own. We would love to see your work. When you've created it, please submit it down below, and we will get to it and have a look, and we will enjoy it, and we will comment on it if you want us to, you don't have to. But it would be great to see what you do. Just take one or more of the ideas we've shown you here, translate it into your world, your taste, your style, your dog, your friends. And we would love to see what you come up if you have enjoyed the video, why not head across to mastering portraitphotography.com, which is a whole host of articles, actions, presets, mock ups. You name it. It's on there. All dedicated to the love, the passion, the creativity, and the business of portrait photography. It's also, as it happens, the spiritual home of the Mastering portrait photography podcast. Hundreds of episodes all dedicated to this beautiful craft. But wherever else until next time, be kind to yourself. Take care. Yes 10. Outtakes: Yeah, you say that. You froze and went, Oh, hello. We're not doing the food bin. That's not in the photograph. Nor was the Amazon Man. Who, by the way, the most modelsqe Amazon man I've ever seen. I know. I was like, Oh, my God. Yeah. I didn't want to insult Sarah, but oh, my God. Amazon Man. Come on in. Oh, it's a headprint. That's like when the wood pigeon. We're gonna take them out into the We're going to we're going to I don't know where we're gonna go. Where are we gonna go? Yellow Brick Road. I'm gonna follow it. Do you know, it might go somewhere? I'm gonna follow it. If only I had a heart, I know a brain Follow the Yomi road. We've followed the Yellowi road. Follow. It doesn't matter. It's helpful both creative. Is helpful creativity Cream it, creative creativeret creatively is the word I was looking for. Hey. Don't you pull that face up? You're still tethered. Oh, you've pulled the bloody headphones apart. Absolute umax. Sir. You didn't write. Okay. Careful with that cable. A Right. I've upset you that much. Hi. Bye, then, Michelle. Well, you've just gone beep in here. Bye bye now. Bye bye. Tweet. Take one. When I sound like that, I sound like I who wants to milli we want you to do that? Tweets $1 million. Is it Option A? Option B. Oh, is it? Excellent. Always knew I could be a child entertainer. This, let's just go into TV children's TV. Alright, kids. You're lucky you have the wheels taken though. I behave. Katie h