Thanks for the warm welcome. Expect many more staffie pictures as they are my main subject.
I will have my own pup sometime this year so then i will go truely crazy ;-)
@bob I see your point with the crop, I love this picture and the amount of muscle definition on Dana's right front leg. The reason i didnt crop it is because you can see the owner of hte dog in the background who threw the ball. It adds story to the picture. The contrast thing comes to taste no doubt, to my eyes the bump in contrast looks over saturated. I'm actually more inclined (been messing with it in that picture) to take allmost all the green out of it.
Here's another picture from that series. With completly different processing: