OK Ron I'm glad if you think my suggestion was useful for this case or a future one :-)

Don't apologise Daniel - I really do appreciate your help/comments. It was my mistake for not remembering your advice about the effects of over-sharpening causing noise/haloes. I hope this is better.

Really?. Uh...I'm sorry, I forgot that...I just wanted to help.

Thanks very much for all your comments. Daniel you have picked me up on this before - thanks for mentioning it again. It will sink in one day !

Nice compistion and colors, and beautiful dog. -Ivan

nothing like a good shot of mans best friend. I like the play on opposites, white & black, good image.

What a song and well portraited Ron mate!. Ron may I give you a suggestion?. I saw you are using PS, and I bet you have used the unsharp mask filter in this shot. Could be you set the "intensity" level a bit strong, and this could be the reason because of little halos in the dog and noise in the sky appeared. Try to fix it using surface blur filter, you can start trying 10-10 setting. Just a suggestion to improve a little your great idea for this shot!.

I haven't heard this song in SUCH a long time.... but they are still just as good as they used to be.... he he he he. Especially the drummer.
I will admit that I never knew the name of it... do you have any idea what it has to do with a black dog (I'm nervous... probably it's something I'm just too naive to understand).