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Photograph of an apricot Pomeranian lying against a black background, its thick fur fanned out around it, looking directly at the camera.

Small Dog, Large Coat

London · October 2024

1D X Mark II, 58 millimetres, f 4, 1/250 of a second, ISO 100

Roughly eighty per cent of this animal is coat.

Artie against black, lit from one side so the coat separated into individual strands rather than reading as one orange mass. He is a genuinely small dog wearing a genuinely enormous amount of fur, and the only honest way to shoot that is to let the coat fill the frame and leave the face small inside it. He held this pose for about four seconds, which was three more than I needed.