“Dude, what is your deal?”
“What? I’m just taking a couple of pictures.”
“A couple? You’ve taken, like, forty pictures of me already today. You’re cramping my style. I’m trying to go for a walk, here. I’ve got bushes to sniff, lawns to pee on, critters to chase– I don’t have time for photography.”
“Sorry, but you remember that book contract?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, I’m obliged to provide them with a number of reproduction-quality photographs of you, for possible use as chapter illustrations.”
“Oh.” She’s quiet for a minute. “So, these are going to be published?”
“Maybe.”
“Well, then, at least make sure you get my good side! Sheesh!”
(I took a bunch of pictures of the dog this morning, with possible use in the book in mind. We’ve got lots of pictures of her already, but I tried to get some with good clean backgrounds, and a few action shots on our morning walk.
(The best of the lot, cropped and GIMPed a little bit, are in this photoset, and you can also see artsy black-and-white versions, as that’s actually what the contract specifies. Luckily, she’s a pretty photogenic dog, even if she doesn’t like to do her cutest poses when the camera is out…)