Strays are everywhere in the Dominican Republic. The struggle for food is constant for these canines… and the fatigue of the matter seemed written on this animal’s face.
I took this shot just a few feet from our cabin in extreme northwest Wisconsin. We’ve tried to leave a very small footprint here in the woods. This shot told us that we’ve succeeded.
It was a humble place… but he seemed to be proud of it. Shot from the seat of a kayak on Pelican Lake near St. Michael, MN, 2010. Still one of my favorites.