Lili & Sammie The Maltese (Click to enlarge)
Meet Lili & Sammie, the softest, fluffiest, sweetest looking house-siblings ever. As I’ve said: you want cute? We got cute! When we shot this, Lili was only about 2 months old. She’s the little peeker around her house-brother, Sammie. Sammie was only a year old at the time, but he acted like the big brother already. They both were puppies, really, and they were so inquisitive, you could just see the wheels turning as they tried to figure it out.
This is one of my all time favorite compositions, not because I did anything extraordinary, but because Lili brought it. That’s why it is so important to make many captures. If you’re in your home with your digital camera and your cat or dog is in the room with you, start clicking. Are they doing something cute? Keep clicking. Check your histogram briefly to see if you’re exposing the images as you want, then keep clicking.
I think if you’re strictly a portrait photographer specializing in humans, you can afford to view each image in the LCD to see if you like it, but as a pet photographer, if you’re looking at your LCD when your subjects are in front of you, you’ll miss one of these. Lili only did it for a second or two. Then she got up. Think of yourself as a tennis player. Don’t admire your shot until the point is over — if you do, you won’t be ready for the next shot.
The story is told. Nothing to hide. Lili was shy and Sammie was bold. 
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