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Before the bug I re-acquainted myself with another old friend.

Tokay

D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash

I must say that these “little” loudmouths have been surprisingly quiet since I’ve arrived here. I haven’t heard them much, and not at all during the night. That may change with the weather, though, let’s wait and see/hear…

Normally speaking I don’t wake up during the night for a toilet break. It may be that the crashing of the waves on the beach has some influence on that. It’s been very windy here and the ocean’s been quite rough.
Anyway… The other night I almost tripped over a big beetle, last night it was another beetle. Slightly smaller, and normally crawling, but still of respectable size. This one was slow, though, unlike the one from the other night.

Beetle

D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash

Beetle

D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash

It would’ve been better for the “little” critter if it HAD been a bit faster. Not long after I shot these pictures, my buddy Mr L (proudly named after the L-shape of his tail) came to look what I was doing lying flat on the floor and decided that his evening snack was way beyond due.
So after playing with his food a bit (I told him not to, but he didn’t listen), he scooped it up and crunched the proteins away (I save you THAT much cruelty, but the playing was fun 😀 ).

Mr L playing with his evening snack

D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash

Mr L playing with his evening snack

D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash

Mr L playing with his evening snack

D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash

The last time we were in Holland we spent a few nights at friends with cats. It’s funny how cats always seem to notice that you know how to handle them, or that you have (had) cats (before) yourself. These two are also a couple of funky little creatures, with their own little attitudes 😀

Swiffer

D700, ISO800, 1/250 sec @ f/1.4, Nikkor 50mm

Dani

D700, ISO200, 1/1000 sec @ f/1.4, Nikkor 50mm

Did I ever mention I luuuuuuuuuuv my 50mm f/1.4? Love the depth of field, love the bokeh, love its sharpness… If you don’t have a 50mm prime like that, go get one. Now!!

I’ve wrote about it before, but with different titles. I found this one actually quite an appropriate title. It’s slowly turning into a small collection. I guess for cat lovers it may be a funny series 😀

So… peek-a-boo 😉

Peek-a-Boo

D700, ISO200, 1/350 sec @ f/3.2, Tamron 90mm macro, 2x off-camera SB-800

Not quite sure what the cats’ fascination is with snow, but when it snows, they’re always up on the window sill looking outside, almost in trance…

Cat's fascination with snow

D700, ISO200, 1/125 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50 mm

I have no clear recollection of taking this… So I guess this is the ultimate oblivion.
It might’ve been my alter-ego. Or the other cat.
We might never know. But aren’t we cute? 😉

Me, myself and the cat

Taken with a crappy phone camera with some seriously dubious settings.

Just because she’s SO cute…

Russian Blue

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/6.7, Tamron 90mm macro, 2x off-camera SB-800

But then again… She is so much more patient with me. And she doesn’t mind if I stuff a macro lens right up in her face. At least not immediately…

Russian Blue

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/6.7, Tamron 90mm macro, 2x off-camera SB-800

I haven’t shot quite as many pictures of the rascal in the house as I have of the ice queen, so here are a couple of him, in one of those rare moments that he’s not sleeping or breaking down the house…

Bombay purebred cat

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50mm, 2x off-camera SB-800

Bombay purebred cat

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50mm, 2x off-camera SB-800

Bombay purebred cat

D700, ISO3200, 1/180 sec @ f/1.4, Nikkor 50mm

The smart-phone has a camera. A whopping 5 megapixel one.
Being a photographer, I guess I’m critical when it comes to photographing. I can tell you that this “camera” is a piece of crap. The previous phone (HTC) had a 2 or 3 mp camera and that was even crappier, and I assumed that the camera technology since the first version of that HTC -I’ve had it for about 1,5 years before it turned retard on me – would’ve been improved since than, but no. The quality is still crap. The amount of pictures I shot with the HTC you can count on the fingers of 2 hands. I predict that it won’t be much more with this phone. I’ve considered getting the Nokia N8, one of the reasons was because it has a 12 mp camera, but I can’t say anything about the quality of it (decided against getting it anyway after some good advise from a friend).
But anyway… I think it will take still a very long time (if at all) before phones will have cameras with acceptable quality. They are just too flimsy, you can’t do any decent manual settings and I’m even having trouble shooting an in-focus image, because the phone is so thin and wobbly and you can’t really hold it firmly to make pictures.

For a quick snap-shot it’ll have to do, though, even if it’s got “camera” shake, a shitload of noise (@ ISO400, how sad is that?) and very flat colors (funny values in phone for taking this picture, too!):

The cat relaxing

Samsung Galaxy S, ISO400, 1/17 sec @ f/2.6, focal length 3,5mm (<- ?)

Maybe I really should…..

😀

Russian Blue

D700, ISO200, 1/125 sec @ f/6.7, Nikkor 70-200mm, off-camera SB-800