Crop Corner

A posed picture that shows the love between a dog and a child is always a strong picture. Here, NYI graduate Murnice Kuesel came in nice and tight to focus attention on this loving pair. What about the torn jeans that expose the boy's right knee? Is it distracting? We don't think so. Rather, it adds to the informality of the setting. I've been evaluating NYI student assignments for nineteen years now. In that time there has scarcely ever been a week that I haven't seen the photograph of at least one dog. Let's see now: 52 (the number of weeks per year) times 19 equals 988. So I would guess that over the years NYI I've seen an absolute rock bottom minimum of nearly 1000 dog pictures. And I know that there have been many more than that because I usually see more than one dog picture per week on the average.