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This photograph is about the concept of degrees of magnitude. It is easy to understand this as applied to simple counting combined with what you know about both the finitude (as our minds are constrained) we are bound within and the infinity we know theoretically exists. So I can count to five: one, two three, four, five. But in another sense one can never get from one to two because between one and two there is an infinity such as there is even between 1.0278394678 and 1.0278394679. And on and on it goes. But we allow ourselves the convenience that degrees of magnitude provides otherwise we'd never get out of bed in the morning as we'd still be counting sheep from the night before! In some ways this is similar to what naturally occurring THC does for our sensorium as it helps us attend to incoming stimuli that matters versus attending to all that does not matter. Or such it is for those of us fortunate enough to not have scrambled brain chemistry. So to my point: here we have the button nose of a dog which Newsweek tells us recently is 100,000 times more sensitive than our human noses! (I might pause here to suggest that anyone who has not read "Perfume" might find it expanding; the movie is not a substitute). After reading the Newsweek article, one has a new appreciation for these marvelous creatures who are so humble and seem so simultaneously happy and sad all the time. Do you think the sadness is for all of the stinky and discouraging things that must waft their way in the course of a day? Labradors can detect bowel cancer with 98% accuracy whereas current human designed tests only allow for 10%. Rottweilers can help track endangered species. You probably have read about dogs being used by their diabetic owners to forewarn of glucose control issues before the patient is aware and before testing would reveal the approaching problem. So I was wondering about the whole idea of how a thing, a characteristic, a phenomenon, a capacity, once it is intensified to a certain level it must become so different that it really isnt the same thing anymore. LIke we think about heat in terms of cooking and keeping ourselves warm, basking in the sun. But if you consider the actual surface of the sun, you're into fusion I think which is far removed from our experience of toasty toes. Or think about coldness and how once something gets cold enough, like absolute zero, the whole physics and/or chemisry of the thing changes. There is all of that business about being able to practically infinitely store energy. So at one end of the extreme we have energy creation and at the other we have energy preservation. And in between we have cold beers and cozy times by the fireplace. As Chloe actually seemed to get into this photo shoot after a bit and turned her head just so allowing me to get this shot, I wondered how "different" in this same "degrees of magnitude" sense her faculty of smell is from mine. I mean they are a universe apart such that if we were to define a sense of smell in her terms, humans would probably have 4 senses instead of the classic 5. Or to put it somewhat conversely, I have a sense of smell but Chloe "has a Sense of Something Else", which is not yet named. We call it the same thing, but it is not. I think it was in the book "Animals in Translation" that autistic Veterinarian, Temple Grandin, describes how humans and dogs evolved together so that over time the "job" of smelling was evolutionarily handed over to dogs such that humans very gradually developed less and less sensitive noses because it wasn't necessary, it wasn't efficient, for both dogs and humans to have this ability. Aside from those who have used dogs for hunting and a few other assorted tasks, our dependence upon them to use this powerful tool took a long vacation. It is nice to read that we're more and more learning about the useful work these creatures can and want to do for us. This photograph is completely taken right off the camera in RAW format. No adjustments were made. Although this was a daytime shot in a set up mix of window light, incandescent light, and bounced flash, the ISO I think on this is 1600. (Yes, I know the EXIF info says flash didn't fire but that only "reads" the built-in camera flash not an attached flash). The 100mm f2.8 macro lens I recently sprang for produced a lovely fairly noise-free product. The depth of field on this lens is from very narrow to razor thin and the blurred areas are beautifully smooth. The shutter was 1/125 and the camera was on a tripod looking upward to the subject who, as I say, after we got going, seemed to understand the game and willingly played along. Of course along with such a powerful nose to pose, she can also read minds and knows that I never oppose her claim to a treat. The magnification on this macro ended up being 1::4. I am still learning about the difference between a true

Closest there'll be to a self portrait. Okay:

1. Perversely, I don't like photos of myself, although I wouldn't get uptight if someone took one (fair's fair in candid photography)
2. I live in Canterbury, Kent
3. By profession, at least for the moment, I'm the headteacher at a school for children with emotional/behavioural problems
4. I hold degrees in Law and Psychology
5. I'm diabetic, and trying to learn how to cook Chinese food without sugar. Not easy!
6. A secret ambition is to do stand-up comedy, but it'll never happen
7. I love Irish Coffee - again need to learn how to make this without sugar
8. In addition to photography, I've been known to paint and write, including some really mediocre poetry
9. A specialisation in Psychology is Child Development, and this is one reason why I like recording children's behaviour through photographs - though not the only reason by any means.
10. I love Bach
11. Once I start cooking, I enjoy it, but it is difficult to start quite often. Today my grand production was ... toast
12. I suffer from depression. Its very annoying.
13. My cat Caitlin snuggles up to me about 5AM every morning (almost). This is second only to snuggling up to my partner in terms of proximity to heaven.
14. I love "The Waste Land", "Henry V" and "War of the Worlds"
15. I like nude photography but couldn't work with nude models. I'm rubbish with models, being very shy and wanting to release them asap.
16. My favourite smell used to be cut grass. Think its the sea these days.

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