Unconditional love

[elsa hoffmann]

the love affair between a baby and a dog.
candid shooting - so really not "my usual style kind of thing"
but for me the moments were more precious than the rest.
or maybe I just love my dog haha

*18 month old Mia - born from 2 deaf parents - she is "moderately" deaf. She has hearing aids, and talks more than my mother.
and she is bloody busy!

Last photo - note her unusual eyes
All images taken with the 85 f1.4 - which performs beautifully - as one would expect.

[Frank Fremerey]

sweet

[Erik Lund]

Adorable and great emotional images!

[golunvolo]

Very emotional. It touches a fiber. I like your choice of tight framing because of the closeness it conveys. I can fell the love and the warm hugs

[elsa hoffmann]

Thank you Frank, Erik and Golunvolo.
You are right - its special to see how unconditional a child's love is.
I love to crop tight - and here I specifically did so to cut out the other distractions in the background as it was shot in my house - following the kid around. And that thing can move - like a Duracell Bunny.

[Erik Lund]

BTW IMHO white balance, tone, is too red in the first image the rest are a much nicer cool suiting the overall rendering much better

[elsa hoffmann]

Thanks Erik - valuable comment - I will go fix

[Tom Hook]

Nice series. Two of the best things in life are kids and dogs and the two together is exponentially better.

[elsa hoffmann]

Thank you Tom. At this point I prefer dogs ....
My grand daughter is visiting - oh my god - 8 weeks old - full time job.

[Jakov Minić]

Full of emotions, I love them!

[armando_m]

Elsa,

emotional series, very well done