My.Third.Eye Photography

The Regal Mutt

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Allow me to present yet another surprisingly elegant portrait of our scruffy mistress of Muttdom, Ms. Olivia Bouchet.

The other day I was walking her up on the hill and another walker said to me, "Has anyone ever told you that your dog has incredibly human-looking expressions?"

I don't know about human, but she IS a very expressive dog. She always has something to say with her eyes.

Just give her a click if you'd prefer a larger view. Biased though I may be, I stand firm in my belief that when it comes to photos of my ravishing Livvy B., bigger is always better.

Finding My Third Eye: A Mini-Memoir

It is 1977 and I am new to San Francisco, freshly graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in creative writing (major: poetry with an emphasis in unemployment). I become a clerk in a record store. I fall for a man who shows me a book by local photographer Imogene Cunningham — portraits of the elderly taken when she herself was an elderly gnome. I know nothing about photography, but I save up to buy a "fancy" camera anyway, one step above a brownie.