Top Dog
Have you ever wondered why a pet rabbit won’t go fetch a ball? In mammals play is an important way for infants to experiment with adult behaviors necessary for survival. Predator infants will pay at stocking, pouncing and biting while pray animals infants will amuse themselves by running, leaping and kicking. As young social animals play also helps establish social ranking.
You can see in this photograph how play skills could be adapted for survival of the fittest or the pack. This image is a good commentary on the behavior of our pets. The photographer has captured the action of her dogs participating in a game of who can take. This is a contest that would be necessary for their ancestors to learn in order to survive.
As a photograph the exposure on the subjects is good but the background is way over exposed. I would like to suggest coming in a little closer and leaving a bit more room at the top of the frame where the action is taking place. The cropping should be used to focus our attention and can be done in a number of ways.
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Crop #1 
Crop #2 
June 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am
James, thank you for taking the time to critique my photo. I would have to agree with you, the cropping does make the photo look a lot better. Crop 1 is my favorite.
I own nine dogs and four of them love to pull on this rope in my backyard. It allows them to excersie.