Figure 1 – IPhone portrait of Steve. (c) DE Wolf 2016

Figure 1 is of Steve, a bull mastiff who visited our offices this morning. Despite my aversion to cute and cuddly animal pictures, his face was so wise, knowing, and wrinkled that it seemed to demand me to photograph him. The IPhone did an amazing job of capturing the texture on his nose and the hairs on his face. He was very interested in my pants legs which carried the smell of my cat, and I think that I offended his sense of politeness, the sacred canine-human pact forged so many millennia ago, when I reached into my pocket and pulled out my cellphone instead of a treat.