November 2013
Thoughts on Blogging is a monthly summary of how this blog is doing for anyone interested, topics related to blogging, blog stats and analytics.
This month’s topics:
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!
My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) – week 13
An unexpected moment when Donna decided that she would perform her wave, repeatedly, to con Mr P of his burger. I didn’t know how long she was going to keep at the begging dog act, so I had to take the picture from where I was sitting. I was glad that I could capture her expression, actions and also the food she was interested in. Mr P’s arm in the foreground is kind of distracting but this is the best shot out of the few I snapped. I had to put that line of text to balance the picture, without it, there’s just too much empty space.
Why is it that the dog always thinks that we should give up our food to her. Humans get hungry too, you know.
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.
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:
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 :)
This article is a continuation to – Dog Socialisation 1 – What do you think of when you hear the word “socialisation”?
An off-leash JRT that approached Donna during our walk at the park.
We brought our dog Donna to a Dog Daycare Centre for a temperament assessment a few weeks back. We realised, as we watched Donna trying to blend into the wall in that room full of other dogs at the Dog Daycare Centre, that she does not get to play with other dogs enough to know how to deal with this sort of situation.
After that she further showed us how true that thought was when she started to show a tendency to mount the dog she was playing with when the dog run was over crowded with dogs. She gets too excited and humps the dog she is playing with. And the over-arousal makes her less responsive to recall and other cues we try to distract her from the obsession with trying to gyrate against another dog.
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
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.
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