This shot and the other one like it are from a training/practice for locating drowning victims. We use chemicals that are supposed to smell like victims, even though humans can't smell them - which begs the question, "How do we know we're getting our money's worth?"

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This is where I went to 6th grade camp.

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Due to my inexperience with the iPhone, the picture was hosed, but it's uncanny in that it seems to have read his mind. (No Photoshop manipulation, other than color correction and vignetting.) Here's what Cielo was afraid was going to happen to him:

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Explore #482, 8/23/08.

Cielo is 10 years old today. Seems like just yesterday that we picked him up and drove him home from Las Cruces, New Mexico, when he was just 8 weeks old. What an incredible friend, partner and source of pride he's been to me over the years!

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