When we’ve taken pictures of our Edie girl in the past, it’s been hard to catch the color of her eyes, as they get lost against her black lab coat. For instance, here’s a picture my brewing friend Dave took one afternoon a few years back (whilst cooking up an ale) of our duo up on the back deck:
So I’ve tried, for a while, to catch her in the right light, where you can see the warm molasses brown of her eyes. Unfortunately, those efforts often come out like this:
Where the only new color is the gray on her muzzle. Recently, I finally caught our tough, sweet, little miss brown eyes close up with her peepers open:
Which makes up for all the less-than-glamorous shots where she jerks her head away or grimaces. Some of you gals know what I mean. I’ll bet a few of you have taken some shots along the lines of this:
And yes, it is different for guys. We’re usually striving for and proud of those shots.
I don’t know why, but I enjoyed the heck out of this post. And I haven’t had any of your beer. ☺
My last dog, before Gen, was a black lab/St. Bernard mix. Every time I took pictures of her, she had the devil eyed look, though she was an amazingly sweet and gentle dog. As for the look thing, I’d say that, sadly, too much of women’s self worth is based on their looks, so they can’t enjoy the sillyness of looking fierce or stupid or so on. Not fair, but the world we live in.
Your Edie does have beautiful, warm brown eyes. 🙂
Anhinga, stop by anytime, and we can fix that!
J, it’s funny, isn’t it, how tough it can be to catch our dogs simply in a pose we often see them in? Just their natural look, yet somehow hitting the shutter triggers the dog clown reaction.
Brown-eyed men seem to be more trustworthy than most blue eyed males, but is it more to do with the shape of the face than the color of the eyes? ;
I dunno, Tennille — seems like a pretty big generalization, doesn’t it?