The 2023 Up Country Inc. catalog was posted on their website yesterday and yep, it’s me in the catalog! My photo won the most votes in their Up For Stardom nationwide photo contest last fall and one of my prizes was a photo shoot for their next catalog.
Wen found a wonderful photographer, Kris Phillips of Furever Friends Photography (now located in Idaho) and we braved freezing cold and windy conditions on Lookout Mountain, just west of Denver to do my photo shoot last December. Our favorite photos were submitted to Up Country and we waited with great anticipation to see which photos they would choose.
First, Wen found my photo in the online catalog with the other two winners who were chosen by the Up Country staff. Then, she found a picture of me modeling a patterned collar and leash.
The best surprise though was when one of Wen’s friends called to tell her to check out the Up Country blog. When Wen clicked on the blog, my picture came up on the Meet the Winners page and another picture with my profile that Wen had submitted was underneath the first picture, along with pictures of the other two winners. Yep, there I was! All our effort of entering the photo contest, finding a photographer, doing the photo shoot, and submitting the photos finally paid off and now we just have to wait for our copy of the print catalog to come in the mail.
