German photographer Elke Vogelsang takes portraits, including ones of her dogs.

Vogelsang’s three pooches, Noodles, Scout, and Loli, are all rescue dogs.

She started on this sillier series as a hobby after she got Noodles and wanted to both expand her portfolio and capture Noodles’s puppy-like demeanor.

She's shot the pups in myriad positions, with props like eye patches and picture frames. But it's this series--Nice Nosing You--that views dogs from their very-important snouts.

Nice Nosing You is the rare set of photographs that can turn an otherwise familiar sighting--a dog--into an almost abstract bit of art, just by finding a novel angle.

Vogelsang shoots with a Fujifilm X-20.