 Maggie has had enough of my pointing the camera at her. Here she shares her opinion of my hobby. It clearly interferes with my more important duties in life, like feeding her, petting her, making a lap for her to sit in and changing the water in her dish about every 15 minutes for maximum freshness.
Today was a rough one for the photo blog. I had plans for a trip to Albany to watch Giants training camp. But they fell through when my son woke up with a high fever. So I stayed home and tended to him all day, which rather severely limits to picture taking. Naturally I turned to the more obvious targets in the house, the cat and dog. Maggie is very tough to take a decent picture of. First off, her coloring makes her blend in with pretty much any background and it also tends to obscure her features. On top of that, she's a very affectionate cat and so if I get down on the floor to take her picture, she promptly gets up and comes to see me. The look she's giving me in this picture really comes from having chased me back and forth across the living room several times as I kept trying to get some distance to take a shot. And since it was in the living room, the light was terrible. Which means I shot at very high ISO, causing a lot of noise in the image. I tried to turn that into a plus by converting to this harsh black and white. That had the effect of making her look even more annoyed with me, so it all worked out.
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This fun fellow is a huge fan favorite at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY. Those rocks at his (her?) feet are his toys, which he will bat about like a cat chasing a bit of string. Otters are great fun to watch. They rarely sit still and when they get in the water, they are incredibly nimble and acrobatic. No exaggeration, I could watch otters play for hours on end.
Parasailers, landing on their towboat.
