In The Frame

6/29 is National Camera Day!

For my readers amusement, I present a selection of pics in which I've attempted to get artsy, like I know what I'm doing.

May, 2025 MacMillan Park, in British Columbia, Canada

November, 2024 Cobblestones in Lebanon, Ohio

November 2023, Mosaic Tile Floor, American Museum of Natural History, New York

November 2023, Detail of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

May, 2018, close up of Lion at Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square, London UK

August, 2006 Close-up of Zebra Plant at The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, Pennsylvania

May, 2018 Celestial George The Stray Cat found at my office building in Farmington, Michigan

May, 2019, Johnson Square Fountain and Live Oak Trees, Savannah, Georgia

October, 2017, Space Alien Streetlamp in Roswell, New Mexico

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In honor of June is Audiobook Month, I recommend the following male authors:

Author Jonas Jonasson

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2009), narrated by Steven Crossley

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (2018), narrated by Peter Kenny

Author Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith

Rules of Civility (2011), narrated by Rebecca Lowman

Author Carl Hiaasen

Chomp (2012), narrated by James Van Der Beek

Hoot (2002), narrated by Chad Lowe

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In The Frame

29 June is National Camera Day, and for my offering this Caturday, here is one of my very favorite images of Celestial Paddy O'Malley.

The driveway surface he was laying upon has wonderful texture, those green eyes, lovely tummy, and his smile; nothing captured his supreme goofiness as well.

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In The Frame

29 June was National Camera Day.

We owned no camera whe Celestial Angel and Chuck came into our lives, therefore I borrowed the office digital camera, with floppy disks.

This is what that office camera looked like...

...taking one of our first images of Angel, on 30 August, 2004.

Within a few years, we'd purchased a Canon camera, on professional photographer's recommendation.

This is what our old camera looked like...

...and it was passably good at taking photos, of Angel in September, 2006.

For the past decade, I have had a company phone, which is upgraded every two years.  

An image of my current iPhone, nabbed from the interwebs...

...from my then iPhone 5, Angel in September, 2015.

I enjoy photography, and strive to take clean, clear images.

It's astounding, however, how often the pic comes out blurred or pixelated; the tiny image on the screen looks so different when on my laptop.

Can take dozens of photos of the same cat, flower, or whatever, hoping one of them is good enough.

Luckily, the duds are easily deleted.

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