Category: Luke

ginger easter

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I don’t need Easter bunnies when I have a house full of Easter Gingers and Easter Torties. As usual the oldest felines, the Gingersnaps, got first dibs on attention this morning. Luke is in his usual kitchen spot supervising the human’s breakfast while Beau is off on the kitchen table contemplating I-don’t-know-what. To celebrate Easter both boys were fitted with new collars and bow ties. They were about $5 each. I love my cats, but not crazy like. I’m retired and on a budget, and so are they all.

Camera and lens were the Pen F and the PanLeica 1.4/25mm at f/1.8. And if Beau’s photo is less than your definition of sharp, well, as Henri Cartier-Bresson is alleged to have said, “Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.” Beau was actively looking around at the time, and cats aren’t going to sit still for anyone, especially cats in a dark area.

pi day with cats and labs

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Luke

Today is International Pi Day because it’s 3/14, or 3.14. Whatever. The household creatures say ‘big deal’ since they can’t have any pie. Or pi. Again, whatever.

Ruby

Ruby is her usual quiet, contemplative self. She cares not for pi unless it it means she gets 3, or possibly 4, treats. She will have none of this fractional business, especially just a fraction of a treat.

Camera and Lens

I bring up that these photos were taken with my Panasonic GH4 and the Lumix 30mm macro. The GH4 is a mere 16mp camera, that when first released in 2014 was considered the bee’s knees. I’ve never used it for video, having fallen for the still imagery I can create with this hybrid camera. I purchased this copy four years ago, three years after its release, and some nine months after the release of the GH5 in March 2017. Panasonic still had a lot of copies in inventory, so Panasonic had a Christmas sale and marked the GH4 down over half, and I bit. I’ve never regretted that decision.