Look beyond this adorable Maltese and what do you see?  I see all kinds of plaid … and stripes thrown in for good measure!  The handler is wearing the navy plaid sport coat and the judge – oh the judge….a busy combination of a plaid sport coat, different plaid shirt and striped tie!   Strange as it seems, I noticed the plaid clothing first when I decided to shoot this scene!  I try to have the final composition in my mind before I take the photo and in this case, what I wanted to accomplish was having the beautiful white dog surrounded by plaid.  Mission accomplished!  A dog with a patterned or multi-colored coat in this scene would not have given me the “look” that I wanted!