Nikki, John, Enna and Makoa!!

So over summer as some of you may already know, we meet a couple that had a klee kai the same age as Kumo. Well they graciously offered to watch Kumo while Bry and I were in hawaii. Well having the two dogs in the house for two whole weeks must have rubbed them the right way, because by the time Bryan and I got home they had already signed a contract to get another Klee Kai. He is one of the rare Red/White Klee Kais. Nikki and John still watch Kumo from time to time and he loves going over to their house. They got to watch him this last Saturday and Nikki gave me the pictures from his stay....

Makoa, Enna, Kumo

Kumo loves playing with Enna

All three playing

Kumo loves to terrorize their cat, this is him staring her down through the door

Makoa

Our Maui trip so far....

So as many of you know we are in Maui right now! There was a hurricane that was forcasted to hit us on Tuesday but by the time it got here is wasn't much of anything besides a bunch of rain! We are staying with my parents in the Kapalua/Napili and it rains here every morning and evening but on Tuesday it rained all day :( We went on a scuba instruction on Monday and had a blast! Unfortunately we didn't get to see anything really cool (like an octopus) because all the animals were probably hiding from the upcoming storm :( Other than that we have been enjoying the sun and my parents company! We have two kayak trips planned for later in the week and next week, along with a sail trip and a magic show!

Well a week before we went to Maui I got in contact with another couple owning an Alaskan Klee Kai! They live in West Valley and have a female Klee Kai that it 4 days older than Kumo, her name is Enna(eee-na)! She is so adorable and is much smaller than Kumo. He weighs about 13 pounds and she weighs 5.5 pounds. There are three sizes to the breed and she is definitely the smallest size. Well we got to hang out with them a couple of time before heading to Maui and they graciously offered to take care of Kumo while we were gone! I was so excited! So Kumo has been having fun playing with Enna and her owners John and Nikki seem to be having fun with the dogs! They sent me this cute picture yesterday of Enna and Kumo cuddling! How cute!

Here they are at the doggie park

Kumo got neutered.....

Kumo got neutered yesterday and it doing well. The vet said to keep him really quiet for a few days and no dog park for 10 whole days!! Anyhow when I picked him up he was really sleepy and apparently cold bc he wanted to sun himself on our balcony in the 90 degree heat! Anyways he has been licking his stitches so I have to put this collar on him for when I can't watch him, and well you can see how much he enjoys it.... here are some pictures....

Uploaded videos on youtube!

So I am in the process of uploading a bunch of my videos on youtube! I am starting with recent ones like Kumo and hoping to work backwards to some videos of us!!! Anyhow last night was hilarious....Kumo was sleeping on the floor last night next to Bryan and he was so tired he didn't notice his tongue was hanging out! What a silly pup! Well I have finally decided to get some vidoes up on youtube. Here is our youtube link...

http://www.youtube.com/dpashleytodd

We found Kumo's brother!!!!

So I randomly stumbled onto a video of a very familiar looking Klee Kai just the other day. I made Bryan come in and have a look at it and he was amazed at how much the little pup on the video looked like Kumo. Well I watched the video a couple of times and checked the little guys facial markings and realized it looked just like one of Kumo’s littermates! Well I got an email today from the lady that owns him and it definitely is one of Kumo’s littermates! It is actually the puppy that we almost chose! We went with Kumo because he was slightly bigger! So here are some pictures of Kumo’s brother and at the end is a youtube clip of him! I can’t believe how much he looks like Kumo!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0u1GaHugf8

A blog for Tanya Mathis!!!!

So I finally got an update on my friend Tanya! We have known each other since 7th grade for me and 6th grade for her. She is a year younger than me, and has two older brothers my age that I am also friends with. Well we were inseparable growing up. I have missed her dearly lately and she finally emailed me and started a blog! We call each other Sissy and I am so excited to finally get a chance to see what she is up too! Hopefully she keeps blogging because that would be awesome. I decided to post some photos of us through the years… so here they are! Miss you Sissy! See you in July!!!! LOVE YOU!!!

Thanksgiving 2006

Christmas 2007
Feb 2002Jan 2000

Photo retouching

So I finally learned how to retouch photos! A link that I find really useful when working with faces is http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshop-touchup-tutorials/ Its got many tutorials on how to fix blemishes, teeth, etc. Anyhow I did my first practice one on Carla and I and it turned out great! Here is it!

If you click on the photo it will enlarge it so you can really see what I did.

Also here is the original....

Photography turn in??

So for my photography class I was assigned to take two close up/macro photos and two landscape photos. I just cannot decide which ones to turn in tho! Some of them are different crops of the same image, but let me know which two are your favorite in each category because I am stumped!

landscape 1

landscape 2
landscape 3

landscape 4

landscape 5

landscape 6

now here are the close up/macro photos

close up/macro 1

close up/macro 2

close up/macro 3

close up/macro 4

close up/macro 5

close up/macro 6

close up/macro 7

Kumos personality

Kumo just looks so smug in these I had to post them for my Mom. Love you! Miss you!

More photos for class

So my assignment was to use light in three creative ways. Here are my three photos:


1) Here is a photo only using ambient lighting. I was not allowed to bring in any light to take the photo. I had to use the light only from the subject. This photo was taken with a 15 second exposure. It turned out nicely.

2) This photo was taken using a technique called light painting. The trick is to take a longer exposure of an object and introduce secondary light. In my case I set the exposure and used a LED flashlight to light up the parts of the photography that I wanted to highlight. You can see where the surrounding lights are more golden, the LED that I used has more of a white light.

3) For this photo I used a technique called fill flash. I never knew that I could really take good pictures inside. Whenever I used to try the photos were either too dark or the flash was just so obvious. I learned how to use flash to my advantage and make it subtle. Kumo face was shaded before I used the fill flash. So I set the flash way low so that I could bring out the colors in his face without showing that I was using flash.