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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with Softlighter II camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
Great Egret & Snowy Egret
Taken during the Golden Moment (early morning sunrise).
DSC_7905 @ Bombay Hook NWR, Smyrna, DE
For those of you who are too young to remember Mutt & Jeff, just think Big & Small...☺ The big one is a friend's Rhodesian ridgeback, and the little on is our Rosie, a couple of good buddies.
The tug and pilot launch lie waiting in the waters off Greencastle, Co. Down. Greencastle seems a very exposed place to have these two vessels based there. Greencastle is at the mouth of Carlingford Lough which is long and narrow and I suspect that navigation is hazardous!
I call this my "Mutt Photo" because it has a mixture of a couple things....
HDR and IR. (Merged Multiple exposures for HDR and did the whole "blue/red" channel shift for the IR)
Pulled this out of the archives to play with IR a little bit and thought i'd try some HDR at the same time...basically the bridge is the only thing affected by HDR....It was totally in shadow until i brought down the exposure and exposed the detail.
Post processing details...Lets see....basically i took the photo with a Hoya R72 IR filter and set custom white balance on a green patch that had full sun shining on it (this, to me, is the key). Opened in Nikon Capture and did an Auto Exposure (This basically adds a nice punchy contrast to an IR photo). Opened in PS and did the IR channel switch (Channel Mixer, Blue - Moved Red to 100% and Blue to 0%. Then Red - Moved Blue to 100% and Red to 0%. This effectly swaps the red and blue channel). Then i messed with the hue saturation adjustment to get rid of any stray reds and magentas. This looked pretty good except the bridge was totally in shadow and pretty much black and grey. Ran it through Photomatix (HDR) and was surprised how much detail was actually in the bridge...of course this pretty much fried the IR part of the trees and sky....so undid, and created a new layer and ran again...masked the bridge and whala...oh, and then ran selective color on the sky to get more richer blues. (blue and cyan and moved the black slider to be more black).
NIKON D70 • f 11 • 2 sec • 18 mm • Flash:
Shots from the dog park.
This mutt was such a goofball. Very friendly, very energetic. This shot says it all.
Not really a "mutt" but, anyway, "Cheeto", spends some time in the October "Indian Summer" in the Steamtown parking lot at Scranton, PA.
Big German collectors card by Ross Verlag. Photo: Paramount. Baby LeRoy embarks on a tour of the Paramount studios in a cart pulled by two dogs, Mutt and Jeff, Hollywood, circa 1934.
Baby LeRoy (1932-2001) was Hollywood's most famous toddler. When he was 16 months old, he became the youngest person ever put under term contract by a major studio. Between 1933 and 1935 he starred in nine films, always as a baby. These included A Bedtime Story (1933) with Maurice Chevalier, Alice in Wonderland (1933) and Torch Singer (1933). He is best known for his appearances in three W.C. Fields films: Tillie and Gus (1933), The Old Fashioned Way (1934) and It's a Gift (1934).
Baby LeRoy was born in 1932 in Los Angeles, as Ronald Le Roy Overacker. Aged six months, he made his screen debut in A Bedtime Story (Norman Taurog, 1933). The star of the film was Maurice Chevalier as a Parisian playboy who plays father to an abandoned, troublesome baby who severely diminishes his lovemaking activities. LeRoy's contract with Paramount had to be signed by his grandfather, as not only was Baby LeRoy underage but so was his 16-year-old mother. He was the youngest motion picture actor to receive star billing in such films as Alice in Wonderland (Norman Z. McLeod, 1933), a star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel, and the musical drama Torch Singer (Alexander Hall, George Somnes, 1933), starring Claudette Colbert. He co-starred with W.C. Fields in the comedies Tillie and Gus (Francis Martin, 1933), The Old Fashioned Way (William Beaudine, 1934) and It's a Gift (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1934). Fields recounted a difficult shooting day during Tillie and Gus where a short scene was repeatedly ruined by Baby LeRoy's crying until he surreptitiously devised a solution: "I quietly removed the nipple from Baby LeRoy's bottle, dropped in a couple of noggins of gin, and returned it to Baby LeRoy. After sucking on the pacifier for a few minutes, he staggered through the scene like a Barrymore." LeRoy is perhaps best remembered for a dinner table sequence in The Old Fashioned Way (1934) in which he throws a handful of custard into W.C. Fields's face, yanks on his nose, and destroys his pocket watch by tossing it into a bowl of molasses. Fields initially endures each of these indignities, but the scene ends with Fields spotting Baby LeRoy standing in a doorway and giving the toddler a kick to the rear end.
Baby Leroy is said to have retired from motion pictures at age 4, but four years later there was a final chapter of his film career. At age 8, LeRoy landed the lead role in Paramount's The Biscuit Eater (Stuart Heisler, 1940). This was to be his comeback film, after a two-year absence from the big screen. At age 6, he had appeared in a bit part as himself in the comedy short, Cinema Circus (Roy Rowland, 1937). He began filming the opening scene of The Biscuit Eater (1940) in October 1939. The scene called for Baby LeRoy to swing across a lake holding a rope, but he lost his grip and fell into the lake as the cameras rolled. This happened both times that the scene was attempted. As a result, Baby LeRoy became ill with a very bad cold. By the next day, he had lost his voice. As filming was on location in Albany, Georgia, and the crew and the rest of the cast could not wait the two weeks for the young actor to recover, as the doctor who examined LeRoy had determined, the film's director, Stuart Heisler, instead placed an emergency call to Paramount in Hollywood. Paramount wasted no time replacing Baby Leroy with another Paramount child actor, Billy Lee, who soon arrived with his father who was managing his career, while Baby LeRoy was sent back to Hollywood to recover from his illness, with a promise from Paramount that he would be given another lead role for another chance at a comeback. Unfortunately, that never materialised. Overacker became a merchant seaman and in 1957, as an adult, appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show To Tell the Truth. Ronald Le Roy Overacker died in 2001 in Van Nuys, California. He was 69.
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My wonderful mutt Lady has on one occasion woken me up in the middle of the night with a bout of intense (and unusual) barking. The next day I found out that my neighbours had been burgled and I found hand prints on the windows of my house.
New release!
+RANCID+ 'Mutt' Set
★ Unrigged + Resizable
★ Earrings + Ball chain necklace
★ 8 metals - 16 metal imprint designs
★ Sold as FP only
★ Copy / Mod / NT
Now at Astrophe Event
Polpo su crema di pomodorini Mutti e triploconcentrato,con semi di finocchietto selvatico,e piselli.