Love his expression. I am a Bah Humbag re Halloween & now the dreaded Nov 5th fortnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cute capture, love it!

Looks like he's resigned and couldn't care less!! Great pic.

I agree with jayfar :)

He's a very good tempered animal!!

LOL, he doesn't look at that happy. Precious shot! :)

HE does not look amused.Great picture!!!

Or perhaps he's masquerading as Dumbledore. Either way, a cute picture and a very patient canine.

Awesome on it's own, looks like a purple bird. Ralphie doesn't appear too impressed wearing it, even if it matches his collar.

Great shot, even though Halloween is meaningless to me.

Ralphie is not impressed by this! nope! not at all

Very good pic

Very funny! :)

He's wearing a pretty good sneer!

Ralph looks cute in the witches hat, could be another fancy sorting hat. :-)

I think his mouth makes him look quite witchy. Or maybe that's twitchy? Anyway, it suits him, although I'm sure he ripped it off quite as quickly as he could manage it!

What a great hat! Ralph doesn't look all that impressed, but hey ... you never know. He could secretly be enjoying the heck out of it! :)

Superb capture Andrea. God bless.

hehe, fit great!

Poor Ralph - he is a great model and a good sport to let you take this photo.

Andrea, I'm back only for 1 comment on my core artists (a small core, in which you have a permanent seat), but I'll be back for a real session very soon. (Not that it's even interesting, but selling my father's small condo, settling a drug-user's trespass on several tenants, working with a broken internet connection for several weeks just took me away from RR. Though selling property is a gas, man! And maybe I'll get some art out of it. At least some funny stories. There's gotta be a category called "law art". It's insane.) But I've seen EVERYTHING here, everything you post, every day, without fail---including your flickr versions! I have all these unwritten comments inside me, and I promise to start writing some of them soon. But I pick this piece today because it's a delight, part of your sharp, subtle humor, and part of your series of dog shots which I adore. LOTS of other pics call out, but for right now I'll say hello through this. Ralph looks like Bette Davis saying "what a dump!" Or like Marlene Dietrich having been awakened, and not amused. He truly isn't the theatrical type, but his mixed, growly, very tired, and very burdened look could make for a great character in a play. The lace coming over his forehead is terrific (you plan that? I mean, Ralph didn't put on the hat himself, right? he didn't go to your closet when you were out and say, "I think I'll try this on---guys, is it me? I can take it, is it me?") He's all scrunched up like that's what he wants to do---rest, not model this freaking hat. The hat, however, gives a great splash of intense blue-purple to an otherwise yellowish-beige shot, with blacks and whites on bottom and light-reddish flowers above. Love the shot. He's even got a tooth showing, like he's reminding you he could get really peeved if you keep the hat on him much longer. I love it. (I'm trying to think of a dog joke, but can't come up with one. All I can think of is an ancient 'duck' joke. This is old. A guy goes to a doctor with a duck on his head. The doctor says, "what's the problem?" The duck says, "I can't get this GUY off my ass!" Ba-da-boom. I'll do better next time...)