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UGA student photographs dogs to help them find homes

Who would want to adopt Woody?

He's just an old pit bull with a graying snout. He has scars all over his brown and white body, left over from his fighting days. He's destined to be another casualty of an animal abuse case, right?

Mia Baker doesn't think so. Baker has taken photos that show a different side of Woody. Through her lens, he's a goofy old dog rolling around in the pine straw with a big grin on his face. His bright brown eyes shine as he stands at attention. His pink tongue hangs out as he's curled up on a red blanket in a laundry basket.

After looking at these photos, who wouldn't want to adopt Woody?

Over the past year, Baker turned her photography hobby into a volunteer mission to help get dogs in pounds and rescue groups across Northeast Georgia adopted.

That mission has turned into a nice little business, one she hopes to grow with the expanding pet photography niche after she graduates with her ceramics and art education degrees from the University of Georgia this month.

She only shoots rescue dogs part time - she currently student teaches at her high school alma mater in Atlanta - but her work already has helped get a lot of the animals adopted.

Baker doesn't take a lot of credit for her photos and points out that the Athens-Clarke County Animal Control shelter is such a success because of its many volunteers.

But her pictures have helped the cause.

"I really wanted to help the cause, but I debated it because I didn't know if my photos would be good enough," she said. "Then a few of the dogs got adopted and I got addicted to it."

Allyson Hester, founder of the Athens Pets volunteer organization, credits Baker's work for turning dogs into pets again. Her photos have done more to make adopters fall in love with those dogs than words ever could.

"I've had quite a number of people who have fallen in love with dogs simply because of Mia's ability to capture dogs' personalities in just a single photo," Hester said. "She is very talented, and she is generous enough to use that talent to help dogs in need with absolutely no payment for her services."

Baker got her photographic eye and creativity from her dad, and her animal-loving heart from her mother, she said. Before she got into photography, she became a foster parent for two pups: Meiko and Diego.

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