June Photo Fails & Fireworks Fill-Ins

Hola kitties! Welcome to this month's edition of Pet Photo Fails and what better day to have photo fails than on National Camera Day. Photo Fails are different in the eyes of the beholder and the photographer. What's a fail for some is seen differently by those viewing. This depends on the kind of equipment and knowledge the photographer has. I see bloopers on other blogs [that would be you, Summer] that look fine but those photographers are more schooled and expect more of themselves. On the other paw, I'll complain about a Foto Frenzy foto and some commenters will ax "what's wrong with it?".

We work with a couple of point-and-shoot cameras set on automatic. At one time TW had a fancy-shmancy analog camera and knew what she was doing so she'd never think to shoot on auto. We consider a fail to be one where I have laser eyes that she can't fix in Photoshop as well as classic fails such as blurry shots, over-/under-exposures or grainy shots. This month I admit TW didn't take too many of them. I almost had to go to the archives but not quite.

Dark and slightly blurry. OK, so this isn't a classic fail in the cropped and shrunk to fit version but at full size you can see how bad it is. What a great stink-eye I'm giving her too.

Can you guess what's wrong with this one? The lighting and focus is impeccable but … where's The Cat's face? The best part of me is cropped right out of the frame. TW was more focused on getting the product in and not the star of the blog.

I can't blame TW for this one. It was all Pop with his iPhone. This IS a classic fail—dark, too much clutter and look at the composition! He was trying to photograph The Cat eating out of TW's hand but I decided to walk toward him and ruin the shot. Heh! I'm good at that.

I'm joining the Pet Photo Fails Blog Hop hosted by Miss Cuddlywumps, Paisley and Webster of the Cuddlywumps Cat Chronicles blog. This blog hop takes place on the last Friday of each and every month. Everyone has an occasional photo fail so you should join in the fun.

The Friendly Fill-Ins are hosted each and every week by 15andmeowing and Four Legged Furballs. They think up the fill-ins and I fill in the answers. My answers are underlined and in italics. Each week my image relates to one of the fill-ins. This week it relates to number one.

1. Fireworks don't bother me. TW loves watching them from the window cos she never saw any as a child. I sleep through them. I guess I'm lucky they don't shoot them in our hood and the ones from NYC aren't all that loud. TW says when she was growing up, it was like a war zone.

2. My favorite 4th of July picnic food is rotisserie chicken. At least I wish that's what the peeps cooked but it's not. It's the three times a year they have test tubes, beans and all the side dishes. Hot dogs ARE nothing but test tubes. Am I right? Again, the peeps have never done a picnic. TW talks about when Gramps used to have barbecues and invite the whole neighborhood. Those days are long gone.

3. I begin every day with Pop. Actually TW feeds me breakfast first and then I go into Pop's room to attack him wake him up so he can make a big fuss over me.

4. My cube is the best thing since sliced bread. I didn't like it when I first saw it and then it attacked me. Now it's my go-to place on Pop's bed. I even lay in there when it's really hot out.

For my art this week, I used curly brush strokes cos I wanted to see how I'd look with a Cornish Rex-style perm. I added some tortie colors. What do you think? Yea or nay? It's my entry in The Caturday Art blog hop which is hosted by the lovely Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty and her mum to provide a platform for anipal artists to showcase their latest digital, Photoshop and original art. No talent? No problemo. There are hundreds of one-click apps for desktop or mobile devices that will turn you into a regular PiCATso.

Concatulations to Kelly T. who won the FURminator deShedding Tool.