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Some people take pictures with planning and care. They check the edges of their frame, their composition, the light, etc and try to take the picture in such a way that there will be minimal needs for editing it too much later on.

But when one is dealing with living things, particularly small ones with only a camera phone in hand, one just tries to take sharp pictures as much as possible.

Remember the creepy crawlies?

These little dudes were constantly wriggling away so much that it was impossible for them to be sharp if one went too near. This meant that my camera phone had to be further away from them.

To get this photo:

I had to crop it from this shot:

My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – week 13

By weliveinaflat

On November 20, 2013

In Photography

LAST WEEK’S ENTRIES: My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – WEEK 12 (6 – 13 Nov)

Pictures are cropped, please visit the original post (links below) to view the full pictures with the photographer’s original thoughts on them :)
Clockwise from top left:
Top Left: The action, completelydisappear.wordpress.com
Top Center: Loving Life, 1stworlddog.com
Top Right: Sunrise on Langstone Village, looneyatoms.com
Bottom Right: The Clothes Dryer, 2catsandacattledog.com
Bottom Centre: Tiffany, lingeringvisions.wordpress.com
Bottom Left: It’s a bird! It’s a plane!, weliveinaflat.com

Portraits and landscapes are the order of the day for week 12 participants.

Nothing says health and vitality better than the portraits this week (pointedly ignores the portrait of the cat that says laziness more than health and vitality :P).

We have two very different photos of two ladies and two dogs.

Completely Disappear and 1stworlddog went for wider shots that show both human and dog’s carefree interaction with nature and the environment. Dawn (Lingervisions) and weliveinaflat were more intimate with a closer shot of her beautiful niece, Tiffany and Donna respectively. In both, the choice of colours tend toward a warm glow that is kind to the subject.

2catsandacattledog and Barbara (Looneyatoms) experimented with photos of great stillness. One with the portrait of a cat in repose, the other with an early morning landscape. Each tranquil in its own way.

Go ahead and click on the links above to see the pictures in their actual scale. The photographers will have more detail what they did at the point of taking the picture and their thoughts about the photo. Thank you for sharing :)

Phoneography Weekly: Look straight ahead

By weliveinaflat

On November 18, 2013

In Photography

Phoneography Monday Challenge: Black and White
Apps used: Camera+ (Ansel filter), Snapseed, Moldiv

Above| Chained together, these dividers become the layers that make up a discontinuous surface for the pigeons to perch on.

Below| Trying for something more abstract. I am pretending the spikes are citadels on an alien landscape. Must have been watching too many alien movies lately. :P

Re-homed dog abandons bear

By weliveinaflat

On November 17, 2013

In Photography

No love lost between this two!

Newsflash: A re-homed local mongrel dog has been caught on camera abandoning her pre-loved toy bear. Donna the local mongrel refused to share her bed with the teddy bear, so much so that she was willing to give up the bed to the bear. When asked why she thought the bear too repulsive to be near, Donna replied that she couldn’t sleep with the bear there and the human clicking away on her phone camera on the other end. The human cannot be reached for comment.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

By weliveinaflat

On November 16, 2013

In Photography

My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) – week 12

My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – week 12

By weliveinaflat

On November 13, 2013

In Photography

LAST WEEK’S ENTRIES: My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – WEEK 11 (30 Oct – 6 Nov)

Pictures are cropped, please visit the original post (links below) to view the full pictures with the photographer’s original thoughts on them :)
Clockwise from top left:
Top Left: Facial Reconstruction, weliveinaflat.com
Top Center: The Sketch, 1stworlddog.com
Top Right: Low Tide outside Southsea Marina, Langston Harbour, looneyatoms.com
Bottom Right: Pee-mail, 2catsandacattledog.com
Bottom Centre: You think you know, completelydisappear.wordpress.com
Bottom Left: Naked Mountain Bridge, lingeringvisions.wordpress.com

Welcome back! We were all quite experimental for Week 11.

weliveinaflat was trying out an iPhone app called Studio, that lets her incorporate graphical elements and text as layers before saving it as one image. It could be as simple as a speech bubble (pictured top left) or as complex as this picture of Little Mamam and Miss Harper Lee.

1stworlddog was trying out a sketching app (pictured top center) that turns Bodhi’s picture into a work of art.

Meanwhile, Barbara (looneyatoms.com) was toying with editing using her camera’ software to achieve a painterly effect. Her subject of boats certainly makes it very suitable for painting :) And Dawn (lingeringvisions) was also editing her autumn landscape of a picture she took earlier. Two landscapes, different approaches.

2catsandacattledog also opted to be artistic by going for a dreamy, slightly desaturated effect. The picture in the thumbnail is cropped and trust me it does not tell the full story!

Last but not least, CompletelyDisappeared rendered grumpy Kookai in black and white, splat on the floor… and still very adorable in his grumpiness :P

Go click on the links above because the photographers will have more detail what they did at the point of taking the picture. Thank you for sharing :)

Phoneography weekly: Creepy Crawlies

By weliveinaflat

On November 11, 2013

In Photography

Phoneography Monday Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed, VSCOcam, Moldiv

~~I’m not sure whether these are caterpillars or not but they were flourishing in the garden downstairs.~~ These might be the yellow spotted millipede. Normally, Donna and I just walk past them but the other day I thought I would try taking pictures.

It was then that I really started seeing them. And what I saw was greatly amusing.

Movember 2013

By weliveinaflat

On November 10, 2013

In Photography

Look at me!!! Look at me!! I can haz moustache too! XD

Photos of what we do during our dog walks in general

By weliveinaflat

On November 9, 2013

In Photography

When we first decided to get a pet, we debated about whether we should get a cat or a dog. Mr P suggested a cat several times because, by all accounts cats are more independent and perhaps more suitable for two busy adults.

But I wanted a pet that will get me exercising regularly. It is a commitment I wanted to make. You can walk or run with a dog, but not with a cat. (It was later that I found out some people do walk their cats on a harness :P)

So we adopted Donna. Dog walking became an everyday item on the day’s to-do list.

How many different pictures can one take of the same dog walking every day? More pictures than I would have thought.

Enjoy. Photos after the jump ;)