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Where I stood this morning- a good place to be on a very wet sloppy day. #tonyhewlettdds #whereistandtoday #ourwisproject #21of365
Today was Pancake's day for her annual checkup and vaccines. This is her Vet - Dr. Allison Stumpf, of Banfield Pet Hospital. Pancake bonded with Dr. Stumpf instantly and she enjoys her yearly visit here.
I owe a special debt of gratitude to Banfield Pet Hospital and vowed to be a loyal patron of theirs after the massive Menu Foods pet-food recall in 2007 which claimed at least 30,000 pets in less than a year. Banfield Pet Hospital was the only one to track these pet deaths (when the FDA refused) and was instrumental in bringing to light the need for accountability and tighter controls, tracking and regulations in the pet food industry. Thank you, Dr. Stumpf and Banfield Pet Hospital for honoring your commitment to the health and well being of those we call our beloved pets, friends, service dogs, companions and babies. We will never forget this. Dedicated to my cats who were victims of that recall: twotabbycats.blogspot.com/2010/
Today I had my bi-annual check-up. This is me with my Dr. She's been my physician since 2011. We had a wonderful relationship in that we spent a lot of time chatting about food and health. I'm going to miss her and I hope I'm fortunate to have another doctor as wonderful as she's been!
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Twiga had a vet checkup today - She has gained two pounds since her surgery !!
The little porker is now 8.5 lbs. I was so happy to hear. Her heart rate is a little high, but she hates the vet (nothing personal) and I'm sure it was because she was scared. The murmur is slight, so she will just remain on the aspirin twice a week.
Went to the hospital the other day for the annual checkup.
They served me this thingy.
It tasted good, but under the influence of certain drugs, I saw a moosehead.
Tech. Sgt. Laura Moseley performs an engine check on a C-5 Galaxy after landing July 22, 2103, at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. The C-5 crew loaded cargo to assist with Operation Enduring Freedom. Moseley is a West Virginia Air National Guard member and 167th Maintenance Squadron C-5 crew chief from Martinsburg, W. Va. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dennis Sloan)
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Barney Gramling climbs aboard Lehigh Valley Coal 126 after it's first run of the day for an inspection.
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back from the car ride...Amber still has sutures but all is looking good , and over next 2 more weeks they should have dissolved.A perky cat now and loves to eat ,eat, eat so now we hold back on the new habit of eating !!
I am removing the previous shot as Flickr keeps making it "unavailable." Thanks to all who commented and faved that one :)
My girl marked her second trip around the big star.
See her year in pictures here. Please excuse the horrid video quality....for some reason the server wouldn't accept anything larger than email res.
This was taken yesterday at her 'birthday check-up', which wasn't such a happy occassion.:( Here she's showing off her almost ever-present "you can take my picture, but I'm sure as heck not going to look at the camera" pose.
*sigh*
(and for the record....this check marks the closest she's ever come to being 'on the chart' for head circ......I do believe she's growing into that ginormous noggin! At least it's not the first thing you notice about her any longer.....lol)
Main lobby of the Mt. Sinai hospital complex on Fifth Avenue and 98th St, on my way out of the building after a routine checkup.
I stopped for a while -- roughly in the spot where you see the "ghost" image on the right side of this picture -- to watch a guy slowly navigating across the lobby ... with what looked like artificial limbs to replace two legs amputated at the knee. He was wearing some kind of backpack, perhaps some kind of battery system to power his movement; and he was being navigated by a hospital aide behind him, and his whole family crowding around him.
After about ten minutes, he managed to reach the entrance to the building (in the background of this photo). And when he got outside onto Fifth Avenue, in the cold, bracing air and the dazzling sunlight, the biggest damn smile I have ever seen stretched across his face, from one ear to the other.
"Hallelujah!" he said. "I am outside!"
I don't know how long I'll remember this scene ... but it surely was a reminder that you really ought not to take the simplest pleasures for granted...
(FWIW, the photo was composed from about 13 separate images, stitched together on my iPhone using an app called AutoStitch. Highly recommended!)
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About a year ago, I created Flickr album for photos that I had started taking with my iPhone5s; and now I’m creating a new Flickr album for photos that I’ve begun taking with my iPhone6, which just arrived from T-Mobile this morning.
In last year’s album, I wrote, "Whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer, it’s hard to walk around with a modern smartphone in your pocket, and not be tempted to use the built-in camera from time-to-time. Veteran photographers typically sneer at such behavior, and most will tell you that they can instantly recognize an iPhone photo, which they mentally reject as being unworthy of any serious attention.
"After using many earlier models of smartphones over the past several years, I was inclined to agree; after all, I always (well, almost always) had a “real” camera in my pocket (or backpack or camera-bag), and it was always capable of taking a much better photographic image than the mediocre, grainy images shot with a camera-phone.
"But still … there were a few occasions when I desperately wanted to capture some photo-worthy event taking place right in front of me, and inevitably it turned out to be the times when I did not have the “real” camera with me. Or I did have it, but it was buried somewhere in a bag, and I knew that the “event” would have disappeared by the time I found the “real" camera and turned it on. By contrast, the smart-phone was always in my pocket (along with my keys and my wallet, it’s one of the three things I consciously grab every time I walk out the door). And I often found that I could turn it on, point it at the photographic scene, and take the picture much faster than I could do the same thing with a “traditional” camera.
"Meanwhile, smartphone cameras have gotten substantially better in the past few years, from a mechanical/hardware perspective; and the software “intelligence” controlling the camera has become amazingly sophisticated. It’s still not on the same level as a “professional” DSLR camera, but for a large majority of the “average” photographic situations we’re likely to encounter in the unplanned moments of our lives, it’s more and more likely to be “good enough.” The old adage of “the best camera is the one you have with you” is more and more relevant these days. For me, 90% of the success in taking a good photo is simply being in the right place at the right time, being aware that the “photo opportunity” is there, and having a camera — any camera — to take advantage of that opportunity. Only 10% of the time does it matter which camera I’m using, or what technical features I’ve managed to use.
"And now, with the recent advent of the iPhone5s, there is one more improvement — which, as far as I can tell, simply does not exist in any of the “professional” cameras. You can take an unlimited number of “burst-mode” shots with the new iPhone, simply by keeping your finger on the shutter button; instead of being limited to just six (as a few of the DSLR cameras currently offer), you can take 10, 20, or even a hundred shots. And then — almost magically — the iPhone will show you which one or two of the large burst of photos was optimally sharp and clear. With a couple of clicks, you can then delete everything else, and retain only the very best one or two from the entire burst.
"With that in mind, I’ve begun using my iPhone5s for more and more “everyday” photo situations out on the street. Since I’m typically photographing ordinary, mundane events, even the one or two “optimal” shots that the camera-phone retains might not be worth showing anyone else … so there is still a lot of pruning and editing to be done, and I’m lucky if 10% of those “optimal” shots are good enough to justify uploading to Flickr and sharing with the rest of the world. Still, it’s an enormous benefit to know that my editing work can begin with photos that are more-or-less “technically” adequate, and that I don’t have to waste even a second reviewing dozens of technically-mediocre shots that are fuzzy, or blurred.
"Oh, yeah, one other minor benefit of the iPhone5s (and presumably most other current brands of smartphone): it automatically geotags every photo and video, without any special effort on the photographer’s part. Only one of my other big, fat cameras (the Sony Alpha SLT A65) has that feature, and I’ve noticed that almost none of the “new” mirrorless cameras have got a built-in GPS thingy that will perform the geotagging...
"I’ve had my iPhone5s for a couple of months now, but I’ve only been using the “burst-mode” photography feature aggressively for the past couple of weeks. As a result, the initial batch of photos that I’m uploading are all taken in the greater-NYC area. But as time goes on, and as my normal travel routine takes me to other parts of the world, I hope to add more and more “everyday” scenes in cities that I might not have the opportunity to photograph in a “serious” way.
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Okay, so now it’s September of 2014, and I’ve got the iPhone 6. They say that the camera is better, and that the internal camera-related hardware/firmware/software is better, too. Obviously, I’ve got the newer iOS, too, and even on the “old” phones, it now supports time-lapse videos along with everything else.
I’ve still got my pocket camera (an amazing little Sony ERX-100 Mark III), and two larger cameras (Sony RX-10, and Sony A7), but I have a feeling that I won’t even be taking them out of the camera bag when I’m out on the street for ordinary day-to-day walking around.
That will depend, obviously, on what kind of photos and videos the iPhone6 is actually capable of taking … so I’m going to try to use it every day, and see what the results look like …
Like I said last year, “stay tuned…"
Capt. Leslie Jones examines the teeth of Master Sgt. Francesca Seehausen July 22, 2014, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. The 39th Medical Group dental clinic provides care to the base populace to keep service members mission ready and deployable. Jones is a 39th MDG dentist and Seehausen is the 39th MDG dental flight chief. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Sikorski/Released)
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