lance_delo

I love this picture! T-Bones' joy and enthusiams leap off the page (out of the screen as Gail says!) You captured him heart and soul in a beautiful picture. He's a Rott(weiler), correct? I've known a few and they were smart, fun-loving, affectionate dogs.

I love this picture. Why???
First, there is a strong sense of motion - flowing - in the collective form of the trees which contrasts with their stark bareness. And of course in the dog + walker. And in the sun rising. All that contrasts with the visual elements in their more literal form.
There is the strong suggestion that the trees either crescendo in the right third and then the tops flow down and to the left, *or* that the trees are forming (their shape is suggestive of) a wave traveling from left to right and just about to break over the dog and walker.
In the latter case, the sun would be the point where all the action would coalesce (the wave breaking down onto the dog + walker on the beach/sand/darkness at the bottom of the picture), etc.
That theme being obvious to me, there is a great sense of energy and motion and of things about to happen in the picture that contrasts with the visual theme of starkness and nearly-b&w contrast.
So for me it works wonderfully, and I would not change the composition or anything else at all!
Very well done!