Meet our cat. He’s an old guy now, we’ve had him since before the girls were born, probably going on fifteen years. He doesn’t have a name. In fact, I can’t even guarantee he’s a he. He’s pretty low maintenance, just sleeps all day. Don’t even have to feed him. Don’t have to clean a litterbox. Don’t even have to bring him in at night. Or in the winter. He just hangs out in the garden, sleeping. You can see he’s got a ragged left ear. He got that when the bobcat plowed out sidewalk one winter and he was too close to the sidewalk. Doesn’t seem to bother him. He’s like a lot of cats. You try and say things to him, he just ignores you. And when I rake out the garden and plant some new plants, and lay down some fresh mulch, he’ll do what he always does: lay there without a care in the world.
Tag: winter
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I still have all my snow shovel/ice melt stuff right outside my front door. I really want I put it away, but I’m scared too. It’s not April yet. And it’s New England. I don’t want to jinx anything… -
This beast is sitting idle for now, and that’s okay by me. It’s a front-end loader with a plow attachment hooked onto the bucket. It’s probably seen some use this winter, but so far, knock on wood, we’ve had, what is for New England, a minor amount of snow. So for now, this beast sits, waiting.To get the full scope of the plow blade, I used the Zytlus wide angle lens. I then tweaked the look of the picture in Enlight.
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This hangs on our front door. It’s a winter decoration we’ve had up since before Christmas. We’ll take it down when Spring officially starts.I can’t wait for that day.
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I know I said I didn’t think I’d have a lot of use for a fish eye lens. Well, turns out, a fish eye lens makes selfie’s REALLY interesting. Here I am embracing my inner lumberjack.Okay, I’m done. The snow can go away now.
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The last few days have been a lot of big landscape and sky shots of the snowstorm. Today lets bring it down to a smaller scaleThis is a view of snow trapped between the needles of a pine tree. I took this shot using the macro lens from Ztylus then cropped it to square using Snapseed.
Only one more snow picture tomorrow, then I’ll move on, I promise.
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The day after the snow storm was a bright, beautiful day. The snow still on the trees contrasting with the blue sky was pretty spectacular. I took this with ProCam and it is untouched by post-processing.
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This was the night of the snow storm, after it had all ended. We have some amazingly tall trees in our condo complex, and as I was standing at the top of our driveway, the lights from the next sets of buildings over, framed by the trees heavy with snow, struck me as a great picture. The sun had set and the last of the light in the west was making the evening sky a deep blue.I wish is was better at capturing night photos with my iPhone. It’s something that I’m still learning how do, and the results tend to be hit or miss. But, despite being on the grainy side, I really like how this one turned out.
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What do you get when there’s a snow storm? A bunch of picture of snow. I’ll have a couple over the next few days, but I won’t drag it out too long, I promise.I snapped this one just as the sun finally decided to show itself after the storm. It was late in the day, and the light was touching the trees in the background.
To give it an even more ethereal look, I imported the picture into Hipstamatic and applied a Anne-Marie lens and Mount Royal film, which blurred the edges of the picture nicely, drawing attention to the sun on the tops of the trees in the background.
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Today’s picture is the view outside my front door this morning. I guess it was inevitable that we’d get some measurable snow, this is New England after all. But I liked it so much better when it was in the 50s…Taken with ProCam3 and cropped and saturation selectively increased around the lamp lights using Snapseed.
Scott Lyerly 