Dog beach

GERMAN SHORT-HAIRED POINTER ON DOG BEACH, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7, 2009

Pentax K20D
SMC Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 ED (IF)
1/750 sec. f9.5
ISO 400

This handsome example of his breed pranced alone along the shore, tug toy in his jaws, haughtily ignoring the crowd yapping, sniffing and chasing each other in gouts of sand. The sights on Evanston's dog beach on the edge of Lake Michigan are always ripe, low-hanging fruit for an ambling photographer.