Puce Liver Irish Water Spaniel

In a three-quarter front view revealing a layered composition, a puce liver Irish Water Spaniel, its coat a mass of dense ringlets and its distinctive breed tail momentarily still, gazes with an alert, intelligent expression towards a tiny, highly iridescent, emerald green hummingbird with a long, needle-straight beak, both figures dramatically silhouetted by a strong backlight against the impossible architecture of Escher-like stairways and perspectives, the entire scene steeped in rich dark colors and a warm color temperature defined by dramatic hard light and strong shadows.