Photo by Seth Casteel/LittleFriendsPhoto.com
Well, I like dogs. Check out Seth Casteel's amazing photographs of dogs diving for balls underwater. There's going to be a book
Mike
(Thanks to Debby Collings)
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Featured Comment by Grant: "Finally, pet pictures that I want to look at. Excellent!"
Finally, pet pictures that I want to look at. Excellent!
Posted by: Grant | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 10:22 AM
Dogs will do anything, show me pix of cats diving in the water for balls and I'll be impressed. But yes, very sweet and fwd'd to some doggy loving chums.
Posted by: Ed | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 10:34 AM
Grant may not have seen these on TOP:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/08/random-excellence-carli-davidson.html
Posted by: Jeff | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 11:32 AM
Most dogs are nicer than most people....
Posted by: Clive Evans | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 12:15 PM
Weeeeeeee! - Bernd and Hilla Becher - eat your heart out!
(No offence to the departed)
Posted by: Richard | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 12:50 PM
This broke a while back Johnston. I'm thinking those carpet fibres are causing interference on the servers there at T.O.P. world headquarters. Joking apart, it's kinda gimmicky, but as "hooks" go, it's a good one- and nice photos too. Given (re-hammering a point here) the sheer volume of images produced globally, hourly, it almost seems that there's really no way of getting ahead or producing a saleable body of work that has mainstream appeal without a "hook". No sour grapes though, it's a very cool idea, well executed, I hope hope he makes a million dollars. And if you're reading this, Seth, perhaps you'd consider making a contribution to the "Toms new D800/E fund". I have an idea for a book about Irish girls :)
Posted by: Tom higgins | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 01:58 PM
Brilliant or as Scooby would say "rilliant!"
Posted by: mike plews | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 04:22 PM
Fantastic!
Posted by: Stan B. | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 04:41 PM
Instant favorite in our doggie home, although my basset said that there was no way I was doing that to her.
Posted by: Christopher Lane | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 05:39 PM
You think he looks so funny because he is squinting cause the water makes the ball blurry to him?
Or just cause dogs are funny cute looking anyway?
Posted by: Yucel | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 06:00 PM
That is a doggone brilliant idea. (No rotten tomatoes, please.)
Posted by: Rob | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 06:05 PM
Dogs open their eyes under water! Who knew?
Posted by: Paris | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 06:49 PM
Wow. It's hard to imagine how much more "wild eyed" they would look going after a juicy T-bone. (or an arm!)
Posted by: Mike Cawley | Tuesday, 01 May 2012 at 12:09 AM
Best pics I've seen for ages, Thanks Mike and thanks Debby!
Posted by: Shotslot | Tuesday, 01 May 2012 at 07:21 AM
Wonderful. These photos seem to get at the essence of how awesome being a dog is. Dogs appear to simply love being dogs!
Posted by: Andrew Molitor | Tuesday, 01 May 2012 at 11:04 AM
I've just spent the past week looking at a few of the best public and private collections of photography in the U.S., perhaps the planet. Oh how I (and my colleagues) would have delighted at coming across one of Seth's wonderful creative images in the midst of an unending stream of extremely valuable, yet uniformly un-humorous, prints.
Thank you Mike...and Seth!
P.S. My wife thanks Seth, too! She is quite involved with animal shelter work.
Posted by: Kenneth Tanaka | Tuesday, 01 May 2012 at 11:28 AM