Sunday Stills: Pets

Happy anniversary Sunday Stills! This week's theme of pets coincides nicely with the designing our holiday greeting card. I've always loved the hand painted cards over at Punkin's Patch showing each of the farm animals and pets and wondered if someday I might do something like that photographically. Only our animals don't tend to get along with each other that well.

So, today I made the attempt. Using our well house as a backdrop and setting up the camera with a time delay on a tripod, I took multiple exposures of the various animals one at a time with us and then I used Photoshop to collage them together. Don't we look like the peaceable kingdom!

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Pictured (L-R) are: Wilson, Finley, Topaz, Me with Avo, Starley, Farmer Rick with Millicent, Francisco and Cody. These are the main characters of my blog. We are only missing the other 49 chickens and a couple of wayward kittens. You can even read the label on the pitchfork: Ranch Hand. Sort of a twist on American Gothic.

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Sunday Stills: Landscapes with Fall Foliage

Fall is one of our iffy seasons--sometimes we go from summer directly to winter without much color. I'm too busy today to dig through the archives for fall landscapes which are few and far between. Here are a couple of our calico cat Topaz with leaves from our "lost" maple tree taken many years ago with a not-so-great camera. The spin was physical, not Photoshop.

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Space Alien Stick Invasion

I'll take care of that pesky monster for you!

A Photo About Gain

Excuse me, but can you spare a saucer of milk?