15 Adorable Photos of Man’s Best Friend

15 Adorable Photos of Man’s Best Friend
Landfill Dogs: Photographer’s Portraits Save Unwanted Shelter Dogs
Smartphones Continue to Destroy Wedding Photography and Weddings in General (Video)

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:27 PM PDT

Dogs fill very quickly their place in our hearts and we enjoy having their pictures framed on our desk or wall! Photos of these lovely creatures put us immediately in a state of joy and pure happiness. But it’s not always easy to capture their adorable personality. Here is what prepared for today – 15 adorable examples of man’s best friend, dog.

photo by Tere Ortiz

photo by Stian O

photo by Steven Park

photo by Rick Nicholas

photo by Conrad F de Jong

photo by Lilia Tkachenko

photo by Alan Nixon

photo by Will Marlow

photo by Carlos Huerta

photo by Sippanont Samchai

photo by Doug Brown

photo by Sebastián Dario

photo by Davide Cassanello

photo by Charlie Stinchcomb

photo by Giacomo Carena

Now is the time to take some great photos of your pet! Check some instructions for that in one of our former articles. Just remember to keep few things in mind while taking snaps of your animal: be patient, focus on the eyes and experiment with them. Go!

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Article from: PictureCorrect Photography Tips

Landfill Dogs: Photographer’s Portraits Save Unwanted Shelter Dogs

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 02:42 PM PDT

As skeptics by nature, many times we refuse to believe something until we've seen it. This tendency creates numerous societal problems, but it also gives visual art forms like photography the power and potency to cause social change.

Shannon Johnstone, a professor and photographer from North Carolina, seeks to do just that through her current animal portrait project called Landfill Dogs. While people usually turn a blind eye to issues such as pet overpopulation, Johnstone's portraits of unwanted shelter dogs in danger of euthanasia set the issue at the forefront by highlighting the dogs' personalities, needs, and desires as being not unlike our own.

Each photograph is a desperate plea for a life:

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Rose. (Shannon Johnstone)

"These are not just cute pictures of dogs," Johnstone said. "My goal is to offer an individual face to the souls that are lost because of animal overpopulation, and give these animals one last chance."

Every week, Johnstone visits the Wake County Animal Shelter and chooses one dog to pamper with attention, exercise, treats and a portrait session at the local landfill, where the overwhelmingly constant stream of homeless animals considered worthless by society—especially dogs of so-called aggressive breeds—can be compared to mountains of trash and other discarded rubble.

At the same time, the lovely hillside landscape around the landfill is a symbol of hope as well as the beauty to be discovered by those who are willing to look into the eyes of a homeless dog and see themselves.

Momma. (Shannon Johnstone)

Pigpen. (Shannon Johnstone)

Tickles. (Shannon Johnstone)

Ciara. (Shannon Johnstone)

"To date I have photographed 59 dogs," Johnstone told PictureCorrect. "Only 3 Landfill Dogs have been euthanized, which is remarkable considering the average euthanasia rate for dogs at this shelter is roughly 30% (2013 YTD)."

Johnstone originally intended to use a large format 4×5" field camera or a medium format Rolliecord twin lens camera to photograph the dogs, but she quickly realized that the Canon 5D Mark II with an accompanying EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens allowed her the most flexibility in working with the dogs' shorter attention spans.

"I decided that I needed to work with the dog, instead of getting the dog to work with me," Johnstone said. "The DSLR makes that very easy."

The Landfill Dogs project will continue through 2014. To see more photos, including updated photos of Landfill Dogs still currently up for adoption, check out the project's Facebook page.

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Smartphones Continue to Destroy Wedding Photography and Weddings in General (Video)

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 11:26 AM PDT

You may remember our post “The Curse of the Wedding Photography Wrecker,” which shared a KTXL FOX40 "Don't Be That Guy" news segment showing smartphone-wielding wedding guests getting in the way of the professional photographer. The video showed guests getting up-close-and-personal with couples during their vows, when they cut the cake, and even during the first dance. Think that’s bad? It gets worse!

Presenting you with a new kind of smartphone wedding wrecker: the bride herself! In the video above, it’s the bride, not a guest, that decides to pull out her cellphone. Right in the middle of the pastor’s message, underneath the blusher of her veil, she pops her phone out of the front of her dress, slides it open, and begins to type. Is she texting someone? Maybe updating her Facebook status to “Married”? All the while, holding her free hand, her poor groom looks on with a distinct frown.

bride on phone during wedding