Gallery: Top Twelve-02

This image has the contrast enhanced slightly
from the original. Thanks to LUGer Peter Klein
for his digital wizardry.

"Butch" - New York City April 14, 2003

The Picture-A-Week (PAW) project forces photographers to select a photograph each week and submit it for public critique. Each photographer has lulls and peaks of activity, the PAW project forces us to examine and reexamine our work on a continual basis.

I thought it appropriate to start my PAW 2003 series with a dog photo. "Butch" was taken on the streets of New York City in April of 2003. As I was working in downtown Manhattan on the lower East Side, I came across him and his owner and friend.

Butch had just had surgery on his ears and his appearance was priceless. I asked his owner if I could take a photograph of him. I was allowed to on the condition that "you don't use it on an anti-War poster." The sentiments of 9.11 are much more deeply felt in NYC than in the mid-West.

Butch initially wouldn't pose for me. A slice of smoked salmon provided by his owner solved that problem. So his expression in this photo is one of hunger and impatience.

From the PAW-2003 series.

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Equipment: Canon P, Serenar 35mm f/2.8, Fuji NH film