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Just a quickie before bed... sorry haven't written, not much going on, work goes, life goes, etc. Kittens keep getting cuter!

More after the jump....

So the babies hit the 2 week old mark, here's the latest batch of pictures:

Below a plethora of pics... kittens now three days old.

Thing 1

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Busy last couple of days. On Friday Zoon gave birth to two black, tiny, healthy kittens. Both happened while I was out of course, as I had a bit of running around to do. I'm glad she finally popped, and two is a good number (though that makes total cats in house at 6, which puts me squarely in the "crazy old man with the cats" category). Below is a pic of the first one less than an hour old (still wet). The second kitten was born almost two hours after. The only difference between the two so far is one is a tiny bit less black than the other and has a white spot on it's chest.

Other than that yesterday was a day of yardwork, mowing the lawn (not all, because apparently that clump of weeks are not weeds), cleaning out the carport (though some of the cleaning seemed to just be moving from one spot to the other, though in the end it was cleaned out and I could actually park my car in i!), and starting work on the back yard. This also means we can start work on the deck, so the big party BBQ will happen sometime this month (in theory). It was slow going though because the back yard has basically gone completely ignored for the last 2 years. There was lots of progress made though, and in the end we took out a pickup full of stuff to go to storage and a pickup full of garbage. That's a lot of stuff to get rid of!

Anyway, more kitten pics tonight.

Presented without comment, my kitten casserole, and apologies for not posting more kittens, all the time.

In lieu of the standard PITA of resizing, uploading, and doing the HTML to make the images display here, I'm just going to throw a link to my latest batch of kitten pics up on Flickr. Yay for the Lightroom flickr upload plugin that lets me export images to flickr right from Lightroom, really really easily.

No, it's not nearly as perverted as it sounds. I finally dug up the manual to the flash unit (the AG360FGZ for anyone whose counting) and started going through the different settings, learning (by doing this time) about high speed sync, leading/trailing curtain, different wireless modes, etc. I've read through them before of course, but hadn't done any real work with any of them.... just set the unit to the 'green' mode and clicky-clicky. In the actual doing I found all sorts of little gotchas and how things really worked (like the "HS" icon for high speed mode not showing up in high speed sync mode until you were at 180/s or over). Lots of fun. For the most part sleeping cats facing the wrong way were my subjects, as the point was not to create good photos, but to learn what happens when I click this button.

Ironically one pic that I felt was half decent enough to share ended up from one of the first shots, this is with (if I recall) the flash angled 90 degrees to bounce off the ceiling, with the wide angle flap down and the 'cachlight' flap up (note catchlights in the subjects eyes :) Pic is right out of the camera (well, from camera raw imported to Lightroom, converted to DNG, exported to JPG and then uploaded to the webserver :) No manipulation in between of exposure or anything. Great detail in the full size original, and the lighting and shadows I really like.

I do so enjoy wide angle lenses :) Click for bigger.

Aside: Anyone from the fraser valley area (Epp, I'm talking to you) interested in a photo-walk of some sort?

The kitten (a beta name of 'Carbon' (as in carbon copy of mom, dad, and other cats in the house) is under discussion right now) discovered a) a bowl and b) another kitten in the same bowl in the mirror! Sadly wasn't able to get any shots of the pair playing, maybe tomorrow :)

Anyone have any suggestions for names? I've posted lots of pictures so you folks are probably as familiar with him/her as I am... throw any suggestions for names into the comments please!

Just a quickie again.....

Turning into an arm cat.

I fully expect this to be the last thing I see one morning as I'm finally eaten by my pets.

The kitten is using mom as both chew toy and punching bag. Mom retaliates with the most feared weapon of all... baths!

Corny, my original tabby, who is slowly starting to hiss less at the new tabby (he's a crotchety old man these days).

That's it.... maybe a movie if I get the video splices into something resembling I'd share :)