catblogging

coming and going - catblogging ella snoozing ( April 15, 2006)

To match with the green apple (11/10/2005); a quince

from Medlar Comfits, by Anna Tambour:

I love eating quince raw slice by raw slice—the knife is my favourite quince treatment. All of the quince's unique smell is retained. The sound of the knife going through the flesh is something I enjoy, as is holding the fruit in my hand. It is a wonderful feeling fruit, having a quite human skin.

The mouth-feel of raw quince is wonderful, too, if you like it (and I love it).

On cold days, though, there's nothing to beat baked quince and oatmeal with cream.

Neon Lights at Crest Theatre

Crest Theatre 20051203 (on Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

It's not really that difficult, although it took me a while to get the hang of it. On automatic settings, you will usually overexpose neon (because the camera reacts to all the darkness around it), and you won't get the rich colors. So now I use shutter speed priority mode. I usually start at ISO 200, 1/80 of a second (which was the setting for this photo), and then re-shoot it once with a faster shutter speed, and once with a slower shutter speed, just to make sure I get one shot that comes out well. — tspauld (Tom Spaulding)

Tasmanian Trip 2005 (story so far)

Tasmania 2005 (Some photos from my holiday to Tasmania, a Flickr Photoset - work in progress).
I'm not sure if I should break this down into smaller sub-sets, such as all the ones taken around Macquarie Harbour and Strahan, all the ones around Hobart and those around Devonport, plus a set of ones taken while travelling between the three main places I stayed; or breaking them down into landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, plants, places, people; or whatever.

I will have to find a different place to store the video clips I also took with the digital camera.

By Sea between Sydney & Tasmania (A Flickr Photoset - work in progress) This will include both the journey down and back, scenes of Sydney and Devonport as well as of the ship itself and sea-scenes from it.

this what was needed in major-league bulk supply in the banana plantations before Cyclone Larry hit?

From http://www.bananabunker.com

I am making no other comment at all. Whatsoever. Not even about the date.

composed (Vanita, Vanitas, Vanititas?)

composed, originally uploaded by Vanita.

How pre-Raphaelite. Considerable gorgeousity, especially in the textures.

Not Tasmania

qofd - Quizzical Kitten (breakfast)
www.flickr.com/photos/37649656@N00/100492554

Wild Neighbors at Dharma Bums (another type of cat)
newdharmabums.blogspot.com/2006/02/wild-neighbors.html

Nadar - on the beach static.flickr.com/21/98422655_e1a77384ba_b.jpg
This rather remnds me of some of my Ocean Beach photos from the west coast of Tasmania — the dark sand, wide beach, mountains in the distance up the coast beyond the mist of spray above the waves.

Have I posted them here? <CHECKS>

No. I haven't put any of the photos from my time in Tasmania here yet. I've loaded quite of a few them up to flickr.com, but not by any means the majority yet, or sorted. Here's a link to the set page (www.flickr.com/photos/87756698@N00/sets/1529859)

The first batch was a chunk of nice scenes that would make good desktop backgrounds for computers, but only at 640 x 480 size, I'm a bit thingy about trying to leave some kind of ID on them so if people use them there's an acknowledgement (I do try to put something so that you can find the original &/or the originator of photos here.)

So many other things to do, I haven't had the time & energy to do much sorting, labelling & heavy uploading.

Some Online Photography sites

The Photography Channel

The Digital Journalist - A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism in the Digital Age
From The Digital Journalist: Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate Gallery

Angry Monkey Photography

and also one of my favourite amateurs (see sidebar), from top left pixel, the Daily Dose of Imagery

Cleek: Monday Cat Blogging (Monday, January 23, 2006 at cleek.blogspot.com)

Floraporn: Green Girl

Green Girl
Originally uploaded by singingpixel.

From the "floraporn" group at flickr.com

There's some rather nice pix in there.

Hiatus

Due to much clamour & wails of despair & loss from the thronging crowds of my distressed blogfans, <ahem>, I am just dropping this note in to say that this hiatus is just one of those gaps that strike blogdom. I have every intention of continuing -- there is even some material I've been collecting in my blogpile for entries. "Life" tends to get in the way sometimes (& sleep & all that other stuff).

Cuteness Collective

Yahoo's Kitten Pictures search result.
If you add up all the cat pictures, or maybe all the cute kittens and puppies and dogs and cats (other mammals?), would there be more pornography or them?

FlickrZen

flickrzen.blogspot.com - a collection of someone's favourite images from flickr

Catseyes

Catseyes - r1630202053, originally uploaded by Mezza.

Date: 20050713 from Yahoo News Photos - Siamese Cat at Jordan Zoo REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
This has just caught the glorious blue of Siamese cats' eyes and the lovely velvety texture & colour of its fur - r1630202053

Another caged cat

Caged Eyes

The resigned gentleness of the leopard I saw in the cage was in sharp contrast to the fires of napalm, yet its orange fur and basic nature called it a great predator. One of the most disturbing stories I have read is With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson, about a race of androids that imprison humanity in a cocoon of safety and idleness. All the captive generations descended from the one leopard father have been resting with folded forepaws for too many years, their world stolen from them by human curiosity.

shroud

shroud
Originally uploaded by Vanita.

Buried my mother on Friday, 3rd June, 2005.

Abusing Amazon images; Some quite odd online things

Abusing Amazon images
aaugh.com/imageabuse.html

Ethical Considerations
Abusing Amazon images for decorative art on your own web pages makes use of Amazon's processor and bandwidth. While Amazon is generally good about letting people use their systems for interesting projects, it should be remembered that they make access available in order to ultimately sell more stuff.

My recommendation for those who want to use Amazon's services without being a total leech is to either save a copy of the resultant image and host it directly, or be sure to include a link to the Amazon sales page for the product depicted.

Ummmm ... : www.jewmilk.com/tarzanrubberband.htm or, for something completely different www.dazereader.com/24000824.htm (both possibly offensive to many people).

Chill-out city :) - probably better with sound & faster connexion
drinkingwithbob.blogspot.com/

Cat on the Edge by frombrosis on Flickr

cat on the edge, originally uploaded by frombrosis.

direct link to Flickr Photo Sharing
This classic tabby reminds me of my own late beloved one. Seh could get a mean look on too - reminding you that she was Ancient Royalty, from the line of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Not to be messed with.
Perspective does strange things to the mind here. Not bad ones, though.

Windswept Tree, La Perouse

fern

fern, originally uploaded by Doctor Swan.

I'm following the seasons here. The ice and snow in winter was amazingly beautiful, and spring is looking good too

Infamous Opera House Iraq incident

Mez