She had to be put down last week--on June 2. It was difficult. Yeti, however did live a great life--at least I hope so. I cherish the years we shared.

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We are used to photos and images in a rectangle.

Why is that?

The eye actually sees things in a circle and two eyes see things in a funny fuzzy ellipse. But that is weird because it's a dynamic thing. The eye moves around the world focusing on different things. Just like you reading this and the other text is out of focus and blurry...yes, read it again and think about it.

But really, why do we put images as rectangles?

Is it because film was in sheets at one time...then rolls?

There is no reason we can't have circles or whatever shape.

but we stick with rectangles.

Our monitors and displays are rectangles. Movies are extreme rectangles.

Biology actually prefers the circle.

Your eye is a circle....ok it's a sphere, but the image is circular.

One might think because of this natural thing, that art esthetics might favor the circle. Does it? I'm not sure. Maybe the essence of art actually defies biology and challenges it.

It sure seems to be a state of mind in photography with some sort of saturation of your senses when you actually capture some images.

What do I mean by this?

Here is the observation.

I take photos and do my normal thing and look at them. I like some shots more than others. The usual thing.

Months later, sometimes I look at them again and think. "Wow, I really like that. Why didn't I like it before?"

Could it be like a movie that you have watched seven times, not only getting sick of it, but seeing all the defects?

Does that happen with photos when you are taking them?

When you study a photo hard, trying to achieve that shot, does it just play out your senses till you are sick of it and just focus on the defects?

I'm thinking that actually might be the case.

If so, the trick is to make you mind see the photo as fresh no matter how much time you spent dwelling on it and photographing it.

Maybe this is an artists gift....

Other than taking some mind altering drug or hiding my photos for months, I don't know how to do it.

I had a good weekend.

That is all.

It was so good I keep thinking about it over and over and over and over.

What did I do?

Host a friend and talked, ate sushi, talked, ate Thai, talked, ate pizza, talked, hiked, talked, drank, talked, heard live music, talked, ate fish tacos, talked, drank, talked, ate Thai, photographed.

and did other things that were fun and inspiring.

yes, I had a good weekend. It cannot be replaced.

...Yesterday, April 1, 2008...it appeared my camera broke after trying to use it while riding my bike.

Some odd miracle happened-- today it works fine.

I hope you all had a great April fools day yesterday. I know I did.

Cheers