Some of the things I photograph present challenges because they are so fleeting. The expression on a human face can last only an instant, and even the light on a landscape can be here and gone faster than you can say “Oops, I missed it.”
There is little, however, that is fleeting about my son’s dog, Buddha. I have photographed Buddha napping on the couch, on my office floor, in the sunlight that streams in the south window and the north. The main challenge in photographing this fellow is that he seems to like to mess with the photographer: I pull my camera from my pocket and Buddha will turn his head away from me.
I guess the enlightened Buddha is testing my sense of humor and also helping me practice patience.
