(The following post has pics that are slightly too big for my LJ page format and get slightly cropped off on the right hand side. To see the photos in all their glory,
click here.)
Well, on a dismal and stormy day, I decided to finally play around with my new camera, a
Fuji Finepix S6000fd. It's a 6MP unit that's basically just one step down from a baseline DSLR, with the main difference being that I can't change the lens. Has all sorts of nifty features including the ability to manually control just about everything (shutter speed, f-stop, focus, white point, etc.), which I
really like.
First up is a shot that came about when I set the camera on Will &
Carla's mantelpiece to take the dorky pic you'll see at the end of the post. When I set the camera on the mantel, I noticed that Carla's Jack-o-lantern votive holders formed a pleasing and moderately compelling composition with a little tweaking. I've always enjoyed doing photos in B&W, hence the conversion...
Next up is a photo taken out of the dining room window, inspired by and taken for the fabulous Carla, lover of all things botanical...
Whilst the housemates have been off in Hilton Head gamboling in the sun and surf since Saturday, I have been playing caretaker to their feline overlords. Sheba has contented herself with perching on the back of the couch in Will's office, seemingly not to have moved from that spot in the past 4 days. I've even taken to occasionally prodding her just to reassure myself about her continued mobility... She gets up, walks a foot or so while reproaching me vocally and with a scathing stare (she's quite adept at scathing stares, and almost as facile with disdaining glares). Then, she just as vocally demands pettin's, as is her due. What can I do but comply?
The other catbeing, on the other hand, had a small medical procedure performed last week when the evil hairless monkey-men took him to the vet to have a toe removed due to some suspicious growths that could have caused fairly serious problems in the future. Thus our little lord Tennyson has been walking around with a bandaged foot and an ever-so-stylish
elizabethan collar, thus earning him the moniker (from me, at least) of "Konehead Kitty." The good news is that his Monday visit to the vet resulted in a bandaging that he has yet to thwart as he did with the previous 4 bandaging attempts since Friday. Yay!
(freaking houdini cat)
Here are a couple more pics of Mr. Tenny that are just begging to be captioned...I'm sure I'll come up with something appropriately witty if I sit and thing about them for a while:
Last but not least, the mantel-mounted shot of the aforementioned dork:
p.s. Some of you may know that I have met someone recently, and that I think there might be a bit of potential for something there...
Well, everything is on track for me to visit him out in Madison, Wisconsin at the beginning of June. Can't wait!!! :)
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