This is an excellent capture.
A tight crop taking you closer into the subjects and eliminating the background would add to the impact for me...but super image all the same.
Well done.
That is SUCH a cool photo! What amazing friends those 2 are! Such trust on the part of the dog! This one. . .although I think it may have had more impact if it wasn't quite so centered -- maybe incorporating the rule of thirds a little better -- but emotionally, it touches me -- aLOT -- so it gets a 10 from me :)
Aww, Very cute! If I wasn't looking at my dog right now, I would swear that was him. This really gives off a nice innocent and playful feel with this picture. All the brown hues nicely add to the warmth. Well done!
Even if I were to believe that this image conveys "love", since the challenge topic was romance, this would still fail to qualify.
The color palate used in the image is interesting. I imagine that this is roughly what it looked like in person, but playing with the white balance might produce a more pleasing result. Shooting this with a shallower DoF and getting rid of the green trash can in the background (either by recomposing or cropping it out) would have improved the image.
Awww. I think this might have been more suitable for a "friendship" challenge, but it works OK, here, as well. Very endearing capture; I like it a lot.