Taking a break from black and white dog photos today, and sharing some black and white photos of Kiyomizu-dera at night from my recent Kyoto trip. I’m not very good with night photos so bear with me :P
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So Donna appeared to be finally getting the idea that great things happen when you rollover. I have to say though that her consistency to offer that behaviour is still… well not very consistent and totally mood dependent.
Bright colours of the Indian temple along Waterloo Street, next to Kwan Im Temple. Colour saturation and brightness adjusted in Snapseed.
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Street Photography
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed, VSCOcam
Right next door to the Kwan Im Temple (in last week’s Phoneography Weekly post) on Waterloo Street sits an Indian Temple. I was rather amused to see a Chinese urn in front of it, totally unexpected and hence the picture.
Close up dog photography. Photo taken with iPhone in colour, edited in Snapseed for black and white effect.
I’m under the weather today and spent the whole day in bed. I’m lucky my mother and brother dropped by so I got hot food and Donna still got her daily walk and loo breaks! Mr P is in Tokyo, lucky him!
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.
Look at me!!! Look at me!! I can haz moustache too! XD
Picture 1
“Hold on a minute,” I said, “I want to take a picture of the flower-shaped lights cast by the roof on the floor.”
But there were people walking by. I snapped the roof with its flower-shaped cut-outs that let escaped similarly shaped light shadows on the ground as I waited for the passerby to clear the frame. When he had passed, the flowers were gone too, as the clouds obscured the light.
Picture 2
I was waiting for the family to arrive for a buffet dinner at a hotel. I was in the lounge and spied a many thousand (I exaggerate!) baubles of a chandelier. I sidled to the couch somewhat directly underneath and pretended to be playing with my phone… and then non-nonchalantly snapped a few pictures. I just didn’t want to look like I had never seen a chandelier before :P Muahahahahaha!
Picture 3
Night loo break and short walk with Donna. Leaves lighted up by streetlight. They looked numerous, and yet still lonely in the dark.
Picture 4 and 5
At the petrol station while Mr P was filling up petrol. The light was bright so I couldn’t see the flowers of this blooming tree clearly. No problemo, let’s take a picture and look at it on the screen at a later date. I love blooming trees.
Picture 6
I stepped onto our tiny bedroom balcony, took one look at the sky and went back in for my iPhone.
Picture 7 and 8
Mr P and I were standing on our tiny bedroom balcony waiting for the National Day rehearsal military planes to fly past. We got bored and looked down, studying the construction site below instead. When we looked up again, the blue sky had already been crossed with these streaks of white, marking the passage of those planes that we were waiting for.
“They went past? I thought we would hear them. They usually are very loud, aren’t they?”
“Dear, they are military planes. They have a stealth mode. You can hear them on National Day because they made them loud deliberately.”
Ooops.
Anyway, if you look real carefully in one of the corners, you can see a tiny sliver of the moon.
If you visit now and then, you may have met Donna’s pink hippo and blue dog soft toys. Donna generally amuses herself with them by spreading them all over the floor or giving them love bites and shaking them into submission. So yes, the human is very much relieved that dogs do not show their love for their humans in the same way. *phew*
Over the weekend I needed something calming to do so I started mending her many grimy plush toys before washing them. So here are the cuddly toys hanging out to dry.
Blue dog: You can torture me all you like, my lips are sealed!!
Toys hanging outside on the balcony to dry
In the flat, a couple of her stuffed toys escaped the wash for her amusement.
Toying with some less used apps and filters and serendipity found me creating a mutant of a cuddly toy bear butterfly with clothes peg feelers, that has caught a duo of evil-doer defaced teddies! Can you see it? :P
Picking cuddly toys for dogs
- Avoid choking hazard
- toy should be bigger than the dog’s head
- toy should not be filled with small pallets or beanies
- always mend rips or remove damaged toys to avoid dog swallowing toy stuffing
- dog-proof by removing all loose/attached decorative details like buttons, ribbons and other small detachable pieces that can be chewed off
- supervise the dog’s play with any cuddly toy containing a squeaker, remove damaged toys with squeaker exposed
- Maximum fun!
- small/light enough for dog to carry around
- consider providing a variety of cuddly toys – one to carry, one to kill, one to baby
- run second-hand toys through a wash so that any smells unattractive to the dog is removed
- choose cuddly toys made with fleece or plush material which retain the dog’s smell and is more attractive to the dog
- dog toys not childrens’ toys (tougher and safer materials for dogs; dependent on manufacturer)
To be honest, we don’t practise all of the above. We have bought a couple of $2 stuffed dog toys with squeakers or bells within from Daiso. But all of Donna’s cuddly toys in the photos above are hand-me-downs, regular stuffed toys from home/office spring cleaning and also $1 second-hand soft toy listings from classified ads. But I made sure to dog-proof them and only buy stuffed toys that are not filled with beanie pallets. They don’t look too shabby do they? I do confess I am particular when it comes to toys that I have to see spread across the floor everyday, so no hideous toys for me! :P
Dogs aren’t particular and they are happy to reuse toys, so good for wallet, good for earth :D
Sources:
– http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/dogs/tips/dog_toys.html
– http://www.safemadepet.com/what_is_safe.html
