Tight on the face, with the lanterns behind reduced to warm blocks of light. The Cavalier's expression is the whole picture: chin up, eyes on something above the camera, the tan of the eyebrows and muzzle catching the same colour as the background. Square crop, because nothing outside the head was adding anything.

Cavalier, Looking Up
November 2024
1D X Mark II, 70 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/500 of a second, ISO 3200