The Barley Deep Field

Barley, a dog, is photographed with her snoot very close to the camera, creating a fisheye lens effect such that even her ears are already slightly out of focus, and her feet appear tiny and distant.

Sharing Barley with people via this visual medium doesn’t fully do justice to how tactile she is as a creature. Given the option, when not out on an adventure, Barley wants to be very close most of the time. I suspect that, at some deep level, she finds “chairs” (objects stop which humans seem to spend a lot of time perching) to be unfortunate obstacles to her quest to snuggle and/or tussle. She, of course, wants to be good, and so is responsive to demands that she not climb into nearby laps, but she does keep trying to do so, as if we’re all just a little too far away from her for her liking.