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Photograph of a white Samoyed sitting upright beside a fallen log at the base of a large oak, golden autumn foliage and low sun filling the background.

Under the Oak

Hyde Park, London · October 2024

1D X Mark II, 70 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/1000 of a second, ISO 800

The one frame where she sat still, and she knew it.

Same morning, deeper into the trees. She sat down next to the fallen log entirely on her own and held it long enough for two frames — which for this dog is a career high. The oak does most of the compositional work: heavy dark trunk on the left, the whole background dissolving into yellow behind her. Shot wide open so the leaves went to wash and she stayed the only sharp thing in it.