Dog in a toy car. Photo by Syd Smith
A gallery of dogs and other characters
Scrabbling around collections of amateur and family photos, several common themes naturally emerge. In previous posts I've covered fishing and beachgoing. This time it's pets - mostly dogs. People do love their pets, and they do love to photograph them. Here is just a handful of pet photos from our collection. Funny how dogs in photos so often look like the people they are pictured with. Thanks to Pete Smith for these classic motoring dog shots from his grandfather's collection. The photographer is watching the kids. The girl is watching the camera. The baby is watching…