This is Bert, a friend's dog. He's a gentle soul and I think this photo captures that essence.
“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.” - Robyn Davidson
f2.8, 1/500s, ISO200
Two stray dogs in Afghanistan saved 50 American soliders. A Facebook group raised $21,000 to bring the dogs back to the US and reunite them with the soldiers.