Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Caturday

Detente. Normally, Gracie and Jake eating next to each other is a formula for a bapping contest.


The medium sized (smaller than a SLR, larger than a credit card) digital cameras are useful, but they have their limitations. These next two photos were taken with a Canon A95 Powershot, vintage 2004.

The top film speed of the camera is ASA 400. That means sometimes you have to use flash if you have no decent way of steadying the camera. Here, with a black cat like Teddy and a dark-green cat bed, there was no choice, which results in "laser eyes".


The next area that can screw you up is the autofocus. It is faster in many situations than using the focusing window on the LCD screen to try and focus manually, but notice where the camera focused the shot. It wasn't focused on the exterior of the cat condo, nor on Gracie, but on the back inside wall of the cat condo. If what I wanted was to see the striations of the inside of a corrugated paper box, it worked fine.


I presume a decent SLR would have done better, but SLRs are not good for "wow, I ought to grab that shot."

3 comments:

Distributorcap said...

no matter - they are cute

PhysioProf said...

That's a fancy-ass motherfucking cat bed!

Cujo359 said...

True, that's some mighty fancy corrugation there.