Oreo

I'd reached the three quarters milepost on the daily photo project one year ago today. I was quite surprised.

New month: Another camera (well, lens), and another portrait of Oreo to mark the change. The trick to photographing a cat with a black face is to convince her to open her eyes. This is more difficult than it sounds.

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We returned to the D300 for last October, this time with a Sigma 50mm f2.8 lens designed for macro shooting. It's an excellent macro lens, but it's fair to say I usually just used it as a general-purpose eye on the world.

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The 366 Snaps photo reported that "Joan Swapped the Beds and the Kitties are All Confused." Joan's objective was to convince Taffy to use the larger of the two cat beds (shown below, with Oreo), and Oreo to use the smaller (seen here, with Taffy overflowing).

In the short term, the effort was a total failure--Taffy followed the small bed to its new place on the floor, while Oreo began regularly using the big bed, as shown below. Nowadays Taffy's usually in the big bed, with Oreo routinely sneaking in when Taffy leaves (perhaps to steal my chair). Oreo occasionally--less than once a month--uses the smaller bed.

There's actually a third cat bed, by the way, that's even smaller. Taffy uses that one, which she barely fits, more often than Oreo uses the "official" small bed.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 35
Title of "roll:" Oreo
Other photos taken on 10/1/2012: Using the macro lens to photograph flowers seemed like a good idea.