The dog in the picture is Nellie. If you are wondering what kind of dog she, (because everyone always asks) she is a Newfoundland. She is actually a rescue dog, and when we got her she was so skinny we could see her ribs. I took my pictures outside in my front and back yard. I wanted to use the different plants around me to give the pictures a feeling of being outside. One challenge for me was that it was a cloudy day when I took the pictures. The lighting made them have a cooler feeling to them, rather than a warm feeling, which I would have preferred. One great triumph was that I had good rule of thirds with my picture of Nellie.