My new friend

Last week, I brought a little, six month old kitten home from a local animal shelter. He's gentle, sweet, loving, and most importantly, enjoys cuddles and kisses. His name is Niko and he's my first, non-aquatic pet.

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Actually, I feel kinda... wrong calling him a "pet". He's more like a cute, fuzzy, friend. A friend who's a bit annoyed with me, at the moment, 'cause I had to trim his claws. I managed to get this image before I went and pissed him off... it's like he's reminding me that under his soft, furry exterior lurks a true predator. Just one claw is all it takes. Heh.

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Fresh from the Garden

Didja know Jersey is known for their tomatoes? This is why.

I picked these today out from the backyard, along with a slew of basil (in the background).

Alas, their beauty didn't last long as I massacred them as an offering to the bruschetta Goddess. :D

There's just something so cool about growing/picking your own herbs and veggies... no pesticides, utterly fresh, and no other random weirdness.

Crochet on Ice

See... I have this thing with hobbies. I jump from one to the other, focusing solely (usually) on one at a time. I seem to have fallen into a crocheting hole. *snickers* I have way too much yarn than any woman under the age of 60 should own. It's truly a sickness. I've been making purses for friends and family members, various pouches and scarves and blankets and shawls and...... blah. Anyway. I've not abandoned my camera, just slowed down as I didn't wanna burn myself out too quickly.

Must..... resist...... urges to combine...... both hobbies! I'd rather not bore people with images of yarn and froo-frooness, but I think I can make the hooks look nifty. Mebbe. I'll put it on my things to try list. I'm always looking for boring and mundane things to photograph, 'cause sometimes you get something neat.

Which brings me to glass of ice water. I dunno why I decided to snap pics of my swiftly condensating glass (damn humidity), but I did. I like how it looks like it's glowing. Oooooooo... ghost glass... whoooooooooo. *makes slow, flappy arms and obligatory ghost noises*

*ahem*

Sorry about that.

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I'm /so/ easily amused. :P

Green Vase

When you were a kid and you got a new toy, it was the best thing in the world.. you played with it until you wore the damned thing out, broke it, or you got bored- whichever came first. This is how I feel about my close-up/macro filter. Hopefully, I won't break it, and I don't think you can technically wear one out... and hell, I'm certainly not bored with it.

While looking at nifty photos, I've always been automatically drawn to extreme closeups, especially where they look nothing like they do as a whole and a bit abstract. So this is what I've been doing: scouring my home for things that while quite mundane, can be made to look almost... other worldly (I've always liked that term).

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This is a vase I came across in my pantry closet. I like it fine. It's unique, it's glass, and well... it's pretty. :D It's an odd shape, kinda like a pitcher with an oval rim and spout like things on either end.

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Gel: Take 2

This time, I just didn't take a close-up of the bottle, but squeezed a li'l out. *marks her words with a farty-squeezy-gloppy type noise*

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*hums and doesn't mention that this is the only angle she caught where it didn't look like a mini, pink pile of translucent dog poo*

Ode to Hair Goo

Ahh... hair gel. A curly head's best friend. Behold it's... bubbliness. *snerts*

Just a drop...

My first (of probably many) images using water as the main subject.

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I just love close-ups.