The happiest dog in the world is a muse to this young photographer

Candice Sedighan got Champ, her Golden Retriever puppy, as a gift from her father in 2002. She was just 9 years old at the time, and she didn’t discover Champ was a natural born model until she was 13 — when her father bought her a digital camera and she started taking pictures of the pup. The young photographer’s work has won $5,000 in photography contests and appeared on greeting cards. (Props to Champ, too. The dog is so well trained that he'll sit perfectly still with a live butterfly perched on his nose.) Sadly, Candice’s father died unexpectedly in 2012. But the work she does with Champ has taken on a priceless significance now: father and daughter linked forever in these images of what appears to be the happiest dog on Earth. See for yourself in the gallery above. [Source]

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