T minus 5-point-5

Guess I should stop goofing around on the computer and finish packing, huh?

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i can haz cheezburger?

The best photography lesson I've learned so far: let Randal take them. Yeah, sorry; today I am entirely cheating. These are pictures from last night (January 8) of my brother's cat, Wednesday. They were better than any I attempted, so here they are!

Series In Yellow: Cat

            

puppydog eyes

January 5's photo. I like the dark to light contrast. Could have probably fiddled with it - strategically used the flash, etc. - but I like this how it came out anyway.

Then I skipped a couple of days. Trust me; you don't really want to see any of the horribly mundane photos I took January 6-7. (I deleted them all; they were even putting ME to sleep.)

So I get home from work and look what I discover...

I'm pretty sure one of the minimized windows reads "Daily Kitty".



BUSTED!

photography lesson*

Ignoring the fact that I obviously needed to crop the photo a little bit more at the bottom, I think this is a much better attempt at Lucky Cat's portrait than my first attempt, which was face-on, and how I take way too many of my photos of objects. Don't you think?

     vs.     

Probably higher shadow contrast would have been even better. But I think the 1/4 profile shot makes Lucky Cat look almost, y'know, a little wistful...

* This is my somewhat-daily photo, a day late. I would have posted last night but I started running all my virus scanners and so had to wait till today. Deal with it. This blog makes no claims or guarantees of timeliness.

pixxiefish, egyptian walker

We leave for Egypt in 10 days.* I can't wait to ride the rollercoasters around the pyramids!!!

* Did I mention we're going to Egypt? ...Uhh, we're going to Egypt!

New Year, Day One

I don't really have any real New Year's Resolutions. New Year's Resolutions are just made to be broken, so I don't want to make any!

However, things I will aspire to this year:

1) Drink more water. (That one is recycled from 2008. It lasted a decent while before I got slack again.)

2) Take better care of myself. (Is that loosey-goosey enough for you?) This will take place on a number of fronts, including food and exercise, plus I want to get more arts-and-crafty.

3) Endeavour to post pictures within a year of having taken them. This one will be a challenge, but I figure if nothing else, it will help me blog more often, the one resolution I have consistently refused to make!


I have also decided that I want to take more pictures. Those of you who are familiar with my GIANT, never-ending Flickr stream of 1,001 photos of the Arc de Triomphe and other vacation stand-by photos, are thinking, "What??? That's not even possible, is it?" But what I want to do is take more photos, and get better at doing so, and including pictures of the everyday. I'm going to try to take at least one photo a day, even if it's stupidly mundane, and many of these, if not all (I have learned to not promise more than I can actually offer), I will post here.

So here, just before the stroke of midnight, let me offer you Picture Number One. However, it's your lucky day. I couldn't decide between two very different pictures, so I am giving you a two-for-one deal.

The Festive:


And Loving Boy Meets Evil Dog: