I've photographed this dog before; he's exciting. I was using the Panasonic G9 camera with the Olympus 40-150 mm lens. The image could have been better, but I'm generally happy with this new camera/lens system.
I wanted to get the dog facing the camera, which meant that I had my back to the harsh late afternoon sun, and this gave me the beach house as the background. I would have preferred the ocean as the background, but the dog would have come out as a silhouette.
Monte