Just our cat having a drink.
Tag: pets
What a busy day!
“She’s Asleep” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！ Hello! How’s it going?
I had a super-busy day starting early… 6:30am I was working! Why? Well, I knew I was going to be in and out of the office because the kids’ school schedules are shifted due to the end of the school year and I have to be a chauffeur for Bay while Mariko is working at X-Games. So I thought I would get some work out of the way early. Plus I had three meetings today, one I took from home, and two were in the office. Besides the meetings, we have a few large projects with deadlines that can’t be missed. However, there was one task that sprung up unexpectedly at the end of the day, and that added about 4 hours to my workday. So I ended up putting in over 11 hours! I think that may be a new record for me. 😱
But, it’s stuff that really needed to be done, and I’ll probably take a half-day off at some point (if my workload ever allows it). 😛
Like I mentioned, Mariko is working this week down at the Circuit of the Americas for the X-Games. She’s helping out with translation duties for two Japanese 🇯🇵 skateboarders who are competing. It looks like a lot of fun (Mariko sends me photos of the venue) and I wish I could check it out too! Here’s one of the photos from a practice session. Looks so awesome!
Today’s photo is of our cat, Anko. She’s sleeping, believe it or not! Cat’s are so weird… I don’t think it’s a good photo (I hate the carpet!) but I just had to capture her twisted body.
Oh, this month, I am trying to take only black & white photos. But I already failed on the first day, when I took those cloud photos. 😅 Oh well. No biggie! More about my month-long black & white project later… as you can imagine, I am wiped out. 😴
I hope you had a nice Thursday!
おやすみなさい！
– バロン 
Cats make me sleepy
“Funny Markings” Cedar Park, 2016
Cats make me sleepy…
Hope you had a great day!
おやすみなさい！
– B
Homework time
“The Hermit of Homework” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！ Hello! How’s it going?
There’s not a whole lot going on today, so I’ll just talk a little about the photo above. It’s of my son Koa working on his Japanese homework, while wearing a blanket over his head. He actually reminds me of a Jedi, or maybe Yoda. I took this photo using Fujifilm’s black and white + yellow filter film simulation, +2 shadows, -1/3 exposure, and dropped the exposure even more in Lightroom, added a strong vignette, adjusted curves a bit, added some grain, and cropped 4×5. I liked the look of this one, so I saved the settings to a pre-set, which I applied to the photo below. I think it came out nicely!
“Kitty!” Cedar Park, 2016
I might have found a nice black and white look that I’ll see if I can replicate in the future.
I hope you had a nice day, and I’ll see you tomorrow!
おやすみなさい！
– B
Cat in action
“Kitty Jump!” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！ Hello!
I’m pretty tired tonight, so I’ll just leave you guys with this video of Anko-chan jumping and falling… as kittens do. Enjoy, and see you on Friday!
おやすみなさい！
– B
