Monday, December 21, 2009

Contest Entries Update

The color photo I entered in the library contest took 2nd place in its division!! Yay!! ~Naomi

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Duke

Duke is our 8 year old pitbull mix. I adopted him from the local shelter when I worked there. He actually picked me out to be his owner! He's a sweet little charmer & the friendliest dog you will EVER meet! I'm hoping to actually do a kids book about him, which is why I wanted some photos to work with. I'll add some more later, but here are a few I like!

Just one kiss, pleeeeeease!

Handsome fellow


Yes! Another kiss!

Two of my silly guys!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Entries

These are our entries for the 2009 Warsaw Community Public Library Photo Contest. Sam's are first. I had to pick them for him because he thought all his photos were not worthy. *shakes head*

Samuel Karth- Autumn Color

I'm a little nervous about having my face hanging in public like this, but it is one of his better shots from this year.

Samuel Karth- Naomi In Roses
My color pick is this macro I did of Leia. She's the only one of our cats that holds still enough for me to get macro shots!

Naomi Karth- Princess Leia
And this is possibly one of the best pictures I've ever made. I love it & am glad to have a reason to frame it so we can have it on our wall now!

Naomi Karth- Cincinnati Angel

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Scanimals!

We got a new printer/scanner last week. I've been scanning from pictures that I like & haven't shared online yet. First up is one of the very first pictures I took with my first manual camera. Duke is so expressive & I was compelled to use a limited depth of field to show just how much.Then there's our latest cat edition, Leia, who is probably the most expressive of our cats. She was watching "cat tv" for the first time of the year & I interrupted her to catch this look.
This was taken during Kosciusko's Taste of Agriculture. Someone had just dumped these piglets in the back of a pickup. The owner showed up to find 4 pigs in his pickup bed!
This is one of a pair of twin fawns I used to see on the Beyer Farm Greenway. I believe my heart stopped while I was shooting this little guy up close.

Orangutan at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo. Love Orangutans, hate that exhibit.
Kangaroo at Ft Wayne too. I was learning to use my zoom lens at the time.
I love this set of a flamingo from the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, MI.

And to finish with another bird, this is an egret from the Australian exhibit, also from the Ft Wayne Zoo.