thanks for the comments on my images. The portrait shots of Archie and Zoom were taken with my Nikon D1, and 80-200 lens. My barn set is in a large room that was never finnished by the people that owned my house previously. the room has wood plank floors and two sliding glass doors. I got the idea for this barn. I put some barn boards up in front of one glass door, and added other old things that I have been collecting. I had one strobe and shoot through umbrella on my right. I wanted to give the illusion that the sun was comming through a door on the left so I used a can light and barn doors do give the light an edge. I did have to warm it up a little in PS. Im attaching another picture that I took this week of a little boy. I did work on this one a little more in PS because I wanted it to have a old drawing effect.
thanks again for your comments, good or bad, I really appreciate them

Barb