Interwar Postcard

It’s kimodo, by and © Derek Chatwood, All Rights Reserved.

Having either mounted a 600 mm super-telephoto lens to his Rolleiflex or crept up really close, Derek Chatwood has an intriguing quartet of black-and-white, medium-format animal portraits shot on film at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. The Komodo dragon photograph above is accompanied by two of a gorilla and one of a leopard, both animals similarly in some form of repose. (more…)

delilah…always so worried, by and © hollywalnuts.

This gorgeous portrait of a sad-eyed chocolate labrador brings to mind “faithful dog Hachikō,” the loyal and determined Akita who, for a decade after his human’s death while away, returned every evening to the train station to wait for his old companion. Wikipedia’s page on Hachikō has a photo of him, showing a similar expression.