Looking Pretty 

Ms Cappuccino and Uncle Shortie , he is staying with us til his house is ready ... Doug and his dad are working on a house that his parents bought, it was built in the 1800's ... Cappuccino is have a great time tormenting Shortie! 

I want to do some shots of my cousins dog.  My little cousin found Lucky as a tiny puppy alone and starving.  I am usually a person that does not care for pitbulls.  But this dog is so great.  He is full of ambition and has a ton of character.  As you can see he can get good  air when going after a stick that the boys throw.  His little sidekick is Sparky.  He is a totally different story. I was laughing so hard trying to get shots like this that I missed him completely a couple times.  I want your help picking some of the best  shots I took today of him.  So I can print them out for my cousin.  Here are some of the others I took:  Finally I got the stick!   They say I look like Petey from The Little Rascals. (If anyone out there would like to make him look like Petey please do and post it in the comments)
Last but not least...the boys told me Lucky and Sparky had another trick and I didn't believe them until I saw this trick.  Okay so I need your help.  Let me know what ones are your favorites.  Thanks!!

Here are two more macro shots on a hard to focus cat that keeps moving her head around  Here is a close up of her eyes  Here is a close up of her nose Both were difficult shots using a Nikon D100 and a Micro Nikkor 60 mm 2.8 lens.

Here are two photos I like of my dog Nimo.  Nimo is short for Geronimo.  He has three legs.  My wife got him from an animal shelter in Boston when we lived there.  He supposedly jumped from a third story window and he was brought into the animal hospital/shelter by a neighbor with a shattered left front leg.  Hense the name. I drove across the country with him last summer, and he is just a wonderful companiion.

This is the story of Marcus, our 10 year old kitty. We adopted Markymarks at the beginning of this year from the Seattle Animals Shelter. From what we could gather of his history, his first family brought him to the shelter as a young cat. About 5 years ago, he was adopted by his second family, but was unfortunetly abandoned. During these years he lived on the streets, managing to survive by being a big lover boy. He does have some battle scars though, and contracted FIV from a deep bite of another FIV+ kitty. Because of this, he is an indoors kitty, though he is leash trained and I take him on walks, (no pics of that - but let me tell you it ain't like walking no dog!:-). We've really enjoyed getting to know Marcus Williams and him accepting us as his family ;-). (sorry about the couple of blurry/outoffocus pics, I wanted to convey marcus's attitude more then anything:-)

Went to visit my cousins last month.  This is their dog Dodo. from what I hear, he is a cute dog, but he is not the smartest dog in the neighborhood.

poor, photogenic dog...