Ranines and Pteropines

We had some interesting wildlife in our garden yesterday. I was mowing the grass and found this very handsome guy, we believe he's a Northern Leopard Frog.

And I saw this little chap on our driveway. Certainly not handsome in the classical sense of the word, but he's ever so cute.

When we found him, he was still clinging to his dead mom. We don't know what happened to her.

We call him "Bram". He's not much more than about an inch and a half long.

We have been feeding him kitten formula (You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find bat milk!) with an eyedropper.

Pteropine is to "bat" as feline is to "cat";

Ranine is to "frog" as canine is to "dog".

Nancee Photoshoot

I had a most enjoyable shoot today with model Nancee. I'm still working on photo-editing, but here's a few of my favourites so far -

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The Cognisys Stop Shot controller, which makes possible the balloon shots, and others (even better) that are yet to come :)

More Pop

Playing with balloons again this evening - I only had six, but I'm reasonably satisfied with the results.  This time I was able to use two Nikon SB-26 strobes at 1/64th power to give better lighting. The flashes are triggered by sound - you can see the microphone clipped to the clamp that holds the balloons.

The mic is very sensitive indeed - in this one, the flashes were triggered by the sound of the pin making contact with the balloon, before it burst. You can see the depression where the point of the pin is about to enter the balloon.

Here, it looks like I'm about to be devoured by a purple Pacman, but I actually won this round :)

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Here is one of the Fantastic Four having a nap on a cap.

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This is Walter, another of the "Shop Fosters".

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This is Eleanor, one of the "Mustang Gang", relaxing on the cat tree.