Interwar Postcard

Get my good side!, by and © monkeytime

Over at Strobist, David Hobby cuts through the non-essential numbers (aperture, shutter speed, ISO) and focuses on the core of balancing ambient light and flash. 

Lloyd, above: I dropped the ambient two stops and shot on flash, ungelled. Nyahhhh!

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.