When my brother visited he brought his lighting equipment and we experimented with it.  He took this image of me holding my dog, Abby.  I really loved the piece and decided to do some work on it.  I imported it into Photoshop and adjusted the coloring a bit, removed all the background and added some textures.  Using a layer mask I removed a lot of the texture from my face and Abby's.  I was pleased with the final result and decided to enter it into the Portrait of the Artist exhibit since we can do self portraits.  This was fun and I thank my brother for taking this great photo of both of us!