Orcmid's Lair: Friday Cat Photo: Princess Psyche (from 2007-09-24)

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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Archives Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Orcmid's Live Hideout Praxis101 Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Recent Items Friday Cat Picture: Streaks at 21 (from 2007-09-07... Geek Dinner Collection: 2007-09-12 Hanselman Event... Confirmable Experience: What a Wideness Gains Confirmable Experience: Consider the Real World Suono: Playing with HDR Photography Interoperability: The IE 8.0 Disruption Golden Geek: Executives and Malcontents Social Computing: My Graphs over Our Grid? Microsoft ODF Interoperability Workshop European Independence and Open-Source Development	2008-10-17 Friday Cat Photo: Princess Psyche (from 2007-09-24) Technorati Tags: orcmid, cats, photography, Princess Psyche Princess is the female of our two litter mates. She and her brother celebrated their 14th birthday in September 2008. Their mother, Cleopatra, was a beautiful Burmese with golden eyes and rich brown coat. These black cats have sable highlights in their coats from mom, who has kept dad a secret all these years. (The blue cast is from the lighting.) Princess is showing her age here. The crow wandered outside my office window and she was alerted enough to hop up onto one of my computer towers for a better look. She has learned that diving at the window doesn't accomplish anything and was content to observe. She's still playful and she is also a scold. Every morning I am scolded until I pet her until one of us can't stand it any longer. I don't know why she is scolding me, but petting is what we settle for. I have been practicing capturing their eyes, which I find so intricate and beautiful. The cats are a bit camera shy, so it is difficult to get the view and lighting just right. Sometimes I get close to what I am after. The whiskers are turning white and thick, with a little salt in the pepper of her black coat. At six pounds, Princess is the smallest of our three cats. She has lived indoors her entire life. I'm still practicing with my recently-acquired digital camera and struggling with indoor lighting and color balance for these photos. These images have all been tweaked from the raw files using Nikon Capture NX. I think I need to spend some time with test images and the Help system. [update 2008-10-17 This is part of my migratory episodes from Orcmid’s Live HideOut. I have nothing in particular to add to this beyond capturing the material here on Orcmid’s Lair, with my own control over its archiving and preservation.] Labels: cats, photography posted by orcmid at 10/17/2008 01:26:00 PM *Comments:* Nice pictures in your blog! I like too much cats... I have a blog dedicated to the cats... You are invitet to visit it http://blogs.avui.cat/tristeyazul (Its in catalan, but you can translate it eassy whith the google tool in the bar) # posted by Xavier: 01 November, 2008 10:32 Post a Comment