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This was our yellow lab named Pearl. She was a sweetheart and so well behaved we could balance a treat on her nose and she'd wait for the command...."OK!" Then she'd drop it and gulp it. We miss her every day but pictures like this remind us, dogs rule, especially our girl Pearl.

During the late 60's I started taking pictures in my hometown of Brooklyn, NY with my father's Rolleicord. I was immediately taken with the art of composition. After buying my first 35MM Canon SLR and moving into Manhattan in 1974, I took a workshop with renowned Nikon photographer/educator George Obremski. I came away inspired. George made it clear, "You don't take pictures, you make pictures." Photography was my first love and has remained a hobby to this day. My career was in advertising as a copywriter. As I moved from one ad agency to another in NYC then to Los Angeles, and finally to Grand Rapids, MI I rose through the ranks to become a Creative Director. In 2012 -- having retired from the ad-game -- I found myself sitting by a lake...