they often bark at nyusha and day, but they nearly never bark at me, and there's a good reason for it. dogs feel your attitude very well. i, basically, hunt them with my camera, so they feel that i'm active, i evidently need something from them, so my problem is that they run half of the times i try to shoot them. but i remember one moment when i felt insecure for some reason, while shooting a huge pack of dogs, and one of them immediately noticed it and started to bark at me, although i no more than slightly turned my head (he was behind me). dogs are very apt at reading people's minds, as far as it concerns active/passive attitude at least, and they have well developed facial expressions (that's why it's possible to to take so many different photos of one dog - when i tried to shoot a horse, it was all over in a couple of sessions) but, generally, stray dogs don't atack people or even bark at them.
was the horse a stray too? see i think, the dogs that you shoot pictures of are so amazingly expressive partly because they're stray and they just have so much more interaction with everything around them. i can't imagine taking the types of pictures you take of dogs -- all the dogs round here just look so bored. but maybe were you to find a wild horse pack, well that would be a different story. i wish i could follow you around one day while you took these pictures.
i think horses can be expressive in other things, like running for example. but i was talking about facial gestures, and there are just so many facial gestures in a horse - very few, in fact, compared to a dog.
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