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Prise de vue : Flexaret VII- Belar 80/3.5
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400
Révélateur : Rodinal 1+50 / 14 mn 30
Scanner : Canoscan 9000F
Postraitement : Lightroom 4.2
Playing with mouse.
So this is Simba, my Turkish Van kitten. There's quite a story attached to the acquisition of Simba. As some of you know, Bruno, my much-loved young cat was killed on the road near my home in October. Although I cannot confirm he was a true Turkish Van, he had the markings, but more importantly, the character of a Van. I think he was Turkish Van, tabby and white cross. Anyway, he was a great cat and I knew I would very soon have to have another Van cat. I planned to get one early in the New Year, but breeders are very few and far between and they're becoming really rare cats. Of the 2 breeders in Italy, no kittens were imminently available. Knowing that a cat pregnancy lasts a touch over 2 months, and kittens aren't ready to leave their mothers until they are 3 months old, I was looking at around April or May before any would be available. We'll be away in June and I didn't want to leave a young kitten so soon. So began my search in neighbouring countries for a Turkish Van. (Oh the joys of living on the continent!). I tracked down an hobby-breeder in Austria who looked like she had kittens available from her website. She did, in fact have three kittens just about ready to go, and so it was that last Friday I attempted to fly up to Vienna to bring Simba home to Italy. I say attempted because thanks to Verona airport running out of plane de-icer, the flight was cancelled. After a night in a really nice hotel, and dinner courtesy of Air Dolomiti and Lufthansa, we were good to go the next morning. I met my boy and all his family, his mum and dad and two sisters, and Sunday morning we returned to Italy, along with only 11 other passengers on the tiny plane! Although he doesn't have the classic Van colours of auburn spots on the head and auburn tail, he's all Turkish Van, as his pedigree can confirm. I rather like all the other combinations of colours. His full name is Simba von Wurzbachtal, named after the district of Vienna where he was born. His parents are from Germany, and his paternal great-grand-parents were Great International Champions.
He's just as bonkers and lively as Bruno, so we'll see what sort of cat he becomes. Watch this space!
Just trying out the filters on my new Canon G15 camera , I think I'm loving this little camera ! Then on iPhoto there are a series of filters too ! so I added a mask . What fun !
This lion (simba in swahili) moved right close to the many cars taking pictures of him...
Available on Getty:
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Bev Springer's kitten, Simba
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I watched the Lion King in Spanish yesterday, so from now on my cat will be called "Seem-ba!" XD
Cross-process FTW. Or so I hear. :)
Simple pre-school wooden tray puzzle from the 1994 era of Disney's "The Lion King". By Milton Bradley.
Thrift store find.
Lion King/Jungle Book float
Once Upon a Dream Parade
Disneyland Paris day trip with my friends Anke and Rik.
Thursday, June 18 2009
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I was messing around trying to take a photo of Dinky... but Simba wanted his taken as he was meowing. Here it looks like he is getting ready to bite me, but really he is just calling to me to take his picture!
This is Simba, my cat. Quite the little poser isn't she?
Just testing out lighting setups with my SB-600 and an umbrella. I noticed when using the pop-up flash as a commender it was changing by adding a bit of light into the shot even though it said it wouldn't. So the way to get rid of this is to change the sync speed, not in the menu though as you want the sync speed for the flash to stay at 60th of a second. So just but it somewhere around 120th and see how it looks.
Taken on a Nikon D700 with 24-85mm lens.
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I found my Simba and Nala watch from when I was like 5. It still fits my wrist!! It needs some new batteries, though. :3