These athletic dogs are striking their best “Superman” poses, as they’re photographed flying through the air.
The athletic pooches—from sausage dogs to Rottweilers—get up to 3 feet off the ground, as they leap over fallen trees and branches.
In one photo, border collie Darcie stares straight down the camera lens as she elegantly stretches out her paws in mid-flight.
Other dogs are pictured with a tongue hanging to the side or fluffy ears bouncing above their heads.
The photos are the work of eagle-eyed snapper Nigel Wallace, a former Olympic rifle shooter who moved into dog photography in 2018.
Nigel, 54, competed in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.
Now, he’s using his eye for a good shot to produce these unique photos for dog owners.
“The shots are just fantastic. The dogs can easily get 2 or 3 feet off the ground,” Nigel, from Mildenhall, in Suffolk, England, said. “They do the paws-out ‘Superman flight’ as I like to call it. You can almost draw a cape on the back of them.”
Nigel retired from rifle shooting in 2002 and worked at BT Group for 16 years before starting his dog photography business.
He works with dog owners to entice their pets to bolt towards the camera and jump over the obstacle—normally a fallen tree or branches.
“It’s just giving dog owners something fun and different. They can’t capture this on a walk on their phone,” Nigel said. “All dogs are different—spaniels have really big ears, and they'll look different each time, border collies will stare straight at you as they jump.
“We build the jumps according to the dog’s ability and how big or small it is.
“I always make sure it’s safe for the dog to do the photos, we check for back and hip problems beforehand.”
