Figure 1 – Altar of the god EtOH, Natick, MA, IPhone photograph.. (c) DE Wolf 2015.

As I have said before the good thing about cell phone cameras is that they are always with you- always ready to take a photograph.  The bad thing, of course, is their lack of control, especially optical zoom.  Still while the world awaits the new cell phones with this zoom feature, we may be content to photograph within the camera’s limitations – after all the camera’s limitations are really our own. Now doesn’t that smack of profundity?

Saturday, my wife and I were having lunch at The Cheesecake Factory – made newly famous, I suppose, by Penny and Bernadette on “The Big Band Theory.” The CheeseCake Factory decor is faux or pseudo-Egyptian.   suppose that this is meant to conjure up exotic mental images of a twenties style speakeasy, when the world was gaga about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb.  I was struck yesterday by the backlighting on all of the liquer bottles at the bar.  It required quite a bit of roatting and tilting to get the perspective right.  That, thanks to Adobe Photoshop, and then there was the cropping.  the result of all of this is Figure1, which in tribute to the Egyptian polytheist view of the world I have dubbed: “The Altar of the god EtOH.”