Yet More Cute Kitten Photos

Just when you thought it was safe to return to this blog.... MOAR CUTE KITTENS!

More Cute Kitten Photos

More pics of the adorable kittens we're fostering. Sparkle is the black one and Bear is the gray one.

Update:

See also the earlier and later blog posts with more photos.

These kittens are up for adoption! They are friendly, playful, and extremely cute. Can you give them a loving home? Let us know if you have any questions about them, or see Feline Rescue's adoption blog post.

Cute Kitten Photos

Some kitten photos for your visual enjoyment. These were taken when we still had four kittens, before two of them went to another foster home.

Update: These kittens are available for adoption! If you would be a good "forever home", see their adoption blog post at Feline Rescue.

Update 2: There's more! See my follow-up post on 6/26.

Update 3: And even more photos taken 6/27.

Bear

Stewie?

Stewie and Bear (in the box)

Bear

Stewie

Stewie

Stewie (L) and Sampson (R)

Sampson?

Sampson

New Furniture

It seems that one of the things that happens when you get married is that you buy "grown-up" furniture. It costs a barking fortune.

Fancy new couch (or sofa? what's the difference anyway?).

Jess approves of the new mattress & box springs. Queen-size, not double. Getting old am I.

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Jess Doing Stuff

Begging.

Sitting in a box which is too small.

Cat in a Box

Project 100, #65.

Cat Grass

Jess has a taste for plants. Her favorite seems to be the spider plants, which make her throw up. Gross! But Erin discovered "Cat Grass", which Jess also loves and which does not make her throw up.

Project 100, #62.

Cat in a Box

One of Jess' major duties is to sit in boxes.

Project 100, #41.

New Digital Camera... Really This Time!

A little while ago, I blogged about a new digital camera, a Canon SX-10 "bridge camera". Well, I sent it back, deciding that it really was the worst of both worlds rather than the best, and I replaced it with a Pentax K200d, which arrived today -- an entry-level DSLR and one of only two DSLRs on the market that take AA batteries (the other is also a Pentax). It also turns out that I could get an 18-250mm lens (field of view equal to 27-375mm on 35mm) and that I can use Erin's old-school manual focus lenses that were hand-me-downs from her dad (and plus, the image stabilization is in the body, not in the lenses as Canon and Nikon do, so the old lenses are stabilized too). Even though it's a beast at 1.2kg with the 18-250 zoom, I think it's a fit. Yay!

Here's a picture of Jess. 1/8 second, f/1.4, ISO 1600, hand-held with a Takumar SMC 50mm, one of the aforementioned old-school lenses. Given that this was taken in very poor lighting (available light at 11pm) and I'm pretty green at manual focusing, yet it's among the best pics of Jess I've ever seen, I'm pretty pleased.

New Digital Camera?

I got a new toy in the mail today, a Canon SX-10 IS. I'm not entirely convinced it's right for me... it's kind of a bizarre bastard child occupying the space between point-and-shoots and full DSLRs. It's three times bigger than my old camera, but 1.5-2 times smaller than a DSLR. It has an extraordinarily versatile lens, 28-560mm (which is fairly wide to huge zoom), and zero-centimeter macro capability (i.e., the subject can touch the glass)... for a DSLR that'd be 3-4 lenses, and at least $2000 and 10 pounds of glass (but higher quality glass, of course).

However, it's way bigger than the P&S that I've been taking on hiking trips so far (36-105mm) and been fairly happy with, and it has the same kind of small, noisy sensor that compact cameras do, and the user interface is rather weird in places. Is the fancy lens worth the extra mass and bulk? I'll contemplate this question over the next few days.

This is a picture of my cat. Believe it or not, it's a 1/2 second exposure, hand-held. Sometimes image-stabilization really kicks ass (click through - it's even reasonably sharp full-size). [Edit 1/5/09 - no, it's actually not very sharp at all.]