She has a look of disdain in regards to that damn poodle ;-)

I like the expresion on her fase and the angle of the picture much more than yesterday's

Adriana

In this one, I focus on the dog - it's what attracts my eye. In yesterday's, it's your wife. Maybe that's why she prefers yesterday's?

You're also looking up her nose in this one. :-)

I prefer this one. Makes me want to know what the dog's looking at.

Dog looks like one of those stuffed ones, like the Donkeys from spain

I prefer the first one, because the subjects command the frame thanks in part to the composition and your wife engaging the viewer. Here the subjects are actually less prominent to my eye, despite the fact that you've moved in.

oh my god..its the 30ft poodle. this is funny, [the forced perspective] and very different from the other shot. its very interesting but--i thought the other shot invoked more commentary. this feels more like a snapshot, while i thought the other shot--had a bit more artistic merit.

hello! i've been a visitor of your site for a while now and i just wanted to say that i voted for you. i voted not only for your talent for your dedication to photography and this website. keep up the great work.

Earlier I said:

"Here the subjects are actually less prominent to my eye, despite the fact that you’ve moved in."

Er, "prominent" is not the right word. I meant to say "less engaging".

I think her fly-aways kind of ruin it for me, maybe that's what she's looking at. Also shooting from below on a woman isn't flattering.

The shot is fantastic with great use of perspectives.

I liked yesterday's shot better, perhaps because it had more mystery to it. I couldn't really tell where your wife was or what she was thinking, and I wanted to know why the dog was pulling away from her. In this shot, she clearly looks disgusted with the dog, and the dog looks like it could care less. In fact, as someone else mentioned, it looks almost stuffed. I wish there was more interaction between the two or that I could see more of the surrounding scene so I would know what has engaged the dog's attnetion so totally. Nevertheless, it's still a nice shot, just not quite as interesting as yesterday's in my opinion.

i like this shot very much, however, it seems more of a portrait satisfying your dog than your wife.

i think maybe i should clarify.

i love this shot. if i saw this shot with fresh eyes and did not know that it is supposed to be a portrait of your wife (being main subject) then i would just think it was another amazing chromasia shot. i just wanted to give the most constructive criticism i could.

This one's better than yesterday's because the grass is much better portrayed.Much better in this monochrome.Did you take this as b/w in the camera or did you post process it?
The dog is stil like a coiled spring, though, and your wife's expression and gripping hands seem to show it. Less a pause for thought more a momentary truce, if the dog is as bad as a rescue dog we had.

I like this one better, the closer perspective and the poses, but I like the colours on the other one so I'm torn!

Superb double portrait David, worthy of an award in itself! A white poodle and black hair - you don't like it easy do you - pushing the tonal range to the limits here, and almost making it! (on my monitor at least...)

Your dog looks damn cool in this pic. I love the composition. Hm..your dog is Looking into the future.

I like this one better.

Also you might want to know that there's a new firmware for the 20D. The new firmware also fixes the problem of horizontal line noise in images shot at high ISO settings while using the built-in flash.

http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/eos20d/eos20d_firmware-e.html

I much prefer this one over yesterday's. I think I like the angle on this one better. The dog is almost toy/stuffed animal like in this one which is kind of interesting. Your wife looks as if that dog has given her grief all day!

I prefer this shot over yesterdays as well. Perhaps its because I like b/w shots more for some reason. They seem to capture more expression than colour photographs. I like how the cirrus clouds in the background are originating from your wife in the center, creates an aura effect.

Plus, that's going to be one dirty dog...sitting in the dirt like that. Have fun washing!

What can I say - it's a great portrait - you even managed to get the dog to pose. :) Yesterday's is fairly different in character but I find it hard to really choose between them. In any event, great job (as usual).

Being 'the wife' in the last two photos, I have read with interest as people have tried to read my expression, or guess why I hate these shots so much.

Its simply because they show just how furious I was with our terribly behaved poodle. He had been constantly barking and trying to drag me up and down the dunes for the entire time we were out; and our four daughters had dissapeared in four different directions! Not the perfect sunday morning stroll!
Meanwhile, my wonderfull hubby was sheltered in a happy little world of his own, behind his lens, looking for a 'Chromasia shot' ;-)

Thanh - no dog washing was required. A white poddle sitting on dry white sand isn't too much of a problem - although getting all the sand out of the car is a whole different issue ;-)

And to everyone who thought the dog looked stuffed - what a good idea! ;-)

Love the composition. Was a tripod used?

nathan: this wasn't intended just as a portrait of my wife. In fact, she'd asked that I take a portrait of the dog, but I shot both of them.

peterv: this one was converted to black and while using the channel mixer to extract the red channel, hence the somewhat dramatic sky.

fraxinus: thanks, though my wife's hair is actually dark brown, so I did lose some shadow detail.

Carlos: thanks for the link to the new firmware, I wasn't aware they'd updated it.

Mysterymythic: thank-you, not least because I suspect you could have left a slightly less charitable comment ;-)

fantasic capture! the dog truly looks as if she has reign over her surroundings

At first glance, the dog seemed so surreal... there's a certain weirdness to this, I can't really explain it. But I like it! ;-)