I can edit!

But you can't edit the un-editable. Just takes the whole thing right out of you. I'm sorry, horses and puppies. If it sucks, it sucks, and there is nothing you can do about it, and no amount of begging will make me give it to you. I will work on more rewarding projects, and shoot you with a different camera. In about five years.

Here are editable and edited photos. Nothing particularly interesting. This is not my (loose terminology) puppy. This is just one of a number of golden retrievers I know. Reef got plastered by one before I left for vacation. I had visions of her vertebrae being jammed down her neck, as just as she turned, her head rammed into a massive golden retriever chest. Every time I ask Reef to trust me, she gets hit. Toby, dude - she was in your sights for a good thirty feet. And you still ran into her.

She never says anything to golden retrievers about hateful indiscretions. I think she knows it's useless. She just didn't come back to me for the rest of the walk, as that's what got her a faceful of golden retriever, in the first place.

I'm sorry, peanut.