What do these two photos have in common?

I just entered them into the Flickr Photo Contest for 2022. I'm not sure why really, I have 13,083 photos on their site and these were the ones I chose to present in the Animals and People categories.

I have also wasted an entire afternoon looking through those photos trying to find a cool shot I took of some Tetonia haybales, with the Grand Tetons in the background. Still lookin...

I certainly don't expect to win anything, it's just fun to participate, and maybe one or two people will pause and reflect on my photos, thats good enough for me.

There's a back story to both those images, of course.

Piper, dealing with snow and saying, Really?

Lyla, I shot thirty closeups of this sweety in her Tennessee home, in the evening of a busy household, with my Sony and Sigma lens. This shot captures a young beautiful girl, with flawless skin, and blue eyes reaching out into the room, for the truth.