You probably need to be a photographer to understand this, but the other night I was just getting into bed, and the dogs, as usual, were waiting on the bed, ready to snuggle in for the night. The tiny LED reading light was sidelighting them in a really sharp, cool way, so I zipped downstairs and got out the Canon, then spent 10 or 15 minutes photographing the two of them before finally climbing into bed. 

When I dumped the card to the computer, a new chapter of fun began. I converted the files to black and white so that the focus would be on the light and the contrast rather than the colour, and I edited the images to accentuate the contrasts and the half light.

I couldn't resist this last one (below). In the above picture, Soleil is at the left and Arwen is at the right, but you have to know them pretty darn well to figure that out. Case in point...when I flipped Arwen's image horizontally and pushed the two half-profiles together, I got an eerily symmetrical dog. You can certainly tell they're related!