Theme Week: Cats

Nikon D7000, 80mm (35-80), 1/200, f/5.6, ISO 400, cropped

Here’s a couple of things you don’t see much from me. First, I typically take pictures of my cats only when they’re being especially cute or when I need a photo for the day. And second, I don’t generally do “theme weeks” on the 365 blog.

But this week was different. It started out with a particularly good photo of The Dutchess, one of the neighborhood strays we’ve been feeding. [subsequent note: the cat died a few days after this photo was taken] And in our own family, Anna Marie’s room got a new door, replacing the baby gate we’d been using.

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Pompeii exhibit

Today Ken and I went to the Pompeii exhibit at Union Station. Fascinating stuff.

But after getting stuck lugging a useless camera around the non-phone-photography-forbidden Body Worlds exhibit, we opted to leave the serious equipment at home. Imagine my dismay when I saw at least one of our fellow patrons shooting merrily away with an SLR (though I don’t know if he was allowed to or if he was just doing it anyway).

To spare myself some captioning, all these photos were taken with an iPhone 7.

Bird house in tree

Nikon D7000, 28mm (28-200), 1/250, f/8, ISO 200

It’s funny what you find just sitting there by the side of the road.

On my commute to work I noticed that an old tree by the side of the highway had a bird house in it. Actually, it took me a couple of days to convince myself that the thing was actually there. But of course once I decided it was real, I had to have a photo of it.

This serves as a lesson in the importance of keeping your eyes open. It’s also a lesson in taking photos while you can. A couple of days after I took my photos, the bird house disappeared.

Best of the 365 Blog – February 2017

Things got back to normal this month. I took advantage of the relative calm to put the new phone through its photographic paces.

Anna Marie, looking serious and photogenic as usual.

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Remember last November when we found out ladybugs weren’t all that cute close up? Apparently Arby’s reubens aren’t improved, either.

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The warm weather prompted us to replace the grill. They look so good when they’re new.

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This bit of carpet scrap and dead leaf arranged themselves into an interesting configuration.

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And these pens in a rack made an interesting pattern.

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Even without much exposure control, the iPhone can still get some dramatic sky shots.

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This is one of the blog’s most popular posts. That’s at least in part because I Facebooked it with the comment, “Draw me like one of your French cats.”

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An abandoned chew toy on the floor of Amigos on State.

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