Happy Birthday to the cutest 13 year old black brindle greyhound we know!

Image from Barbara Karant’s book, GREYHOUNDS.

Florida greyhounds need your help. Click on the image below for a printable flyer with more info. Please consider printing and putting up these flyers! Greyhounds Only is trying to bring as many dogs out of Florida as possible and would greatly appreciate your help. Even if you do not live in Illinois, tell your friends and relatives who do. Please spread the word within the canine communities that the Florida greyhounds need help.

The face of GREYHOUNDS has gone.

Slim Image
8/8/1995 – 8/10/2010

Slim Image is Fantastic 15 on 8.8.10!

His CV is impressive:

Slim raced for 2 ½ years, 145 races, at three different greyhound racetracks.

After his tenure on the track the “purple dog” from Dairyland retired to Chicago in 1999 to become Barbara’s muse and a city boy. He was cat inquisitive, terrible on a leash and too smart for his own good.

Her greyhound shoots began three weeks after she adopted Slim.

Slim loved the camera from the first time he stepped on the white seamless.

He would and still will do anything for a treat.

His countenance has graced the pages of a number of magazines and books over the years. His handsome face is on the cover GREYHOUNDS and inside SMALL DOG BIG DOG and Design for Obama too. His picture has been in The Bark, Esquire, Celebrating Greyhounds, Readers Digest, The Houston Chronicle, Channel 7 ABC, WCIU, and several blogs ranging from People’s Magazines Pets to Bloomberg to Dog Art Today! Additionally, he has been on jewelry, posters t-shirts, greeting cards, valentines, checkbook covers. business cards, bookmarks and even tattoos. He has been been a high style model for Snob Hounds. But even his sometimes high fallootin’ garb didn’t keep him form returning to his athletic roots.

He absolutely loved flyball and in his spare time he raced with the Black Sheep Squadron. He was the eleventh retired racing greyhound to receive a flyball title at the age of almost 10. He spent 6 years as the unofficial therapy dog of the Self Help Home in Chicago. He has been Barbara’s most steadfast of companions through good times and difficult times.

Slim has had lots of friends in his life and he has brought great joy to those who live with him – first to Easton (well initially not so much but she saw the folly of her hasty judgment), Bing the cat, then Turtledove, Fancy, and most especially Barbara. She wishes him many more days, months or years as long as he is still happy to be alive. Slim you can have as many cookies as you want; it’s your birthday. We love you Slim.

They gave him to me—for my play—

A greyhound—slender—silver-grey

As winter skies, and smooth as though

The queen had stroked him with her hand;

—David Osborne Hamilton, “The Greyhound” (1920)

Recently we created a triptych of one of the models from Small Dog Big Dog, Riley Finn. Riley is an adorable German Shorthaired Pointer with uniquely patterned fur and piercing amber eyes! We love the way these three photographs came together. The final print, which was 20 x 24 inches, was just gorgeous. Riley, you were an awesome model! Even if we didn’t get a chance to see you skateboard.

Well… here it is is! We are SO excited to see the results of Barbara’s interview with Janet Davies at Chicago ABC 7 News!

Barbara says, “I was a bit nervous about being taped for television, but Janet Davies was such a great interviewer, she totally put me at ease. I’m thrilled that Channel 7 included so many of the wonderful dog participants from Small Dog Big Dog and Greyhounds. The integration of the imagery from the two books was seamless. I was also incredibly moved by the mention of Easton.”

We should also note that we really appreciated the shout-out to our local greyhound rescue group, Greyhounds Only.

Nice job, channel 7! Thanks again!!

Hello Friends of Karant Canines, Small Dog Big Dog and Greyhounds too!

Welcome to our brand new blog.

Our first entry could not be any more exciting!

Barbara recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Janet Davies, a wonderful dog lovin’ lady, for the Chicago ABC 7 news about Small Dog Big Dog, Greyhounds and all topics in between. Her appearance will be airing today, July 20th on the 4:00 news. If you miss it, the interview will be on the Channel 7 website and we will surely be posting it here, so keep an eye out!

Thanks to Janet Davies and Marsha Jordan for making the interview so easy and so much fun! And for their devotion to all dogs, big and small.

Also, we are SO excited about the recent release of Small Dog Big Dog and hope you have a chance to check it out. So far, the book has been very well received! We’ve recently had lovely coverage in People Magazine, People’s Pets, VIV mag, Dog Art Today and on Talkin’ Pets Radio Show. Steve Dale interviewed Barbara twice and she will be in an upcoming Chicago Magazine web feature as well!

We look forward to sharing all of the latest news regarding the Small Dog Big Dog book, Karant Canines photography and much more. We think this will be a fun blog for dog lovers and photography lovers alike, so check back often for tons of new canine photography! Also, please let us know if you have any thoughts or comments, we’d love to hear from you!