What Sandy said. If that was a person, I'd say the dog isn't looking too pleased with the photographer.

great pose from the pup.

I like this the best. The main reason being the expression but I echo that the background is less distracting.

I am surprised f/1.8 worked. This is just perfect however. The puppy is a great prop.

I really don't think the shutter speed was a problem here. The lack of a flash gave the nice bokeh background. If anything maybe giving it a little more DOF with f/2.8 or so would have been useful.

like the angled perspective!!! Great play on image and words .... neat rays cutting down over the words too. very nicely seen.

Rod nailed the brief. Cute and contextual.

Happy image

Is he the only one left how will talk to you now? Now you have your new K-1 buddy.. and are clearly spending too much time trying lenses...Great red BTW and I like the light from the computer in the background.

That's cool. You even scored a couple of sunbeams.