This was a triple; photographed a wire-hair dachshund, a Chihuahua and a Havanese. I feel like a world traveler, photographed a German dog, a Mexican dog and a Cuban dog. I took some photos without the collars but the dachshund and the Havanese both wanted the collars. In fact, the dachshund would run to get the collar and throw it at the owner-it was so cute.

A Havanese puppy

and the wire-hair Dachshund

I'm loving these images -- I love black backgrounds, but I don't think your #3 is a wire haired dachshund. Looks to be the Havanese again.

Thanks Julie, no-number three is the wire-haired

I did not think it looked like a wire-hair dachshund either but they said he was. He did not seem as long as most dachshunds, had longer legs but did act like a dachshund; loves to dig. The Havanese was much younger and hair was thicker, just a puppy.

Yup, I see the difference between the two. But, that is definiately not a wire-haired. Looks like there might be some Maltese in it or something along that line. Whatever it is, I am sure it is loved and it is a very nice photo.

John,
these are nicely lighted and posed. Nice job.

The "wirehaired Dachshund" is definitely a dog. That's all I'll commit to in terms of breed .

On the other hand, it's cute and loved. That's all that's important.

What happened with the outside shoot?

Jim

If you shot them both on the same CF card, see if you can recover all the files from that card -- I've found both sessions on a card I recovered even though I had reformatted for the second session.

I use the Sandisk Recovery software. You might try that on the hard drive as well. The problem with hard drives -- as we all know from sad, personal experience -- is that they will always fail. The question is when. While it's a pain to back up immediately to CD, it really is a life-saver.

Good luck,

Jim

John,
To recover photos from your hard drive, try using Active Undelete . It works very well. I have even recovered things from a hard drive that was reformatted a couple of times.