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.

Photography class

So I have started a summer school class at the U. My Momma let me borrow he amazing camera so I could get some good photography experience in. Our first two assignments were to take a photo using a fast and slow shutter speed to capture a moving object. I chose to do the water fountain in our apartments courtyard. We were also assigned to capture a short depth of field and a large depth of field. Here are my four photographs.

Updates on Kumo's Brothers and Sisters

Can you guess which one is Kumo? These are pictures of his whole litter....

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As you can see one little guy looks identical to Kumo! It's crazy because that was the pup we were originally interested in! Kumo is now 8lbs 9oz and outweighs all his brothers and sisters by a whole pound!

picture#1:Kumo picture#2:JerseyJoe picture#3:Kumo picture#4: JerseyJoe picture#5,6: Flash picture#7,8: Diamonds.

Diamonds just went to her new home in Tuscon AZ and JerseyJoe went to New Hampshire. Flash is still with the breeder and is going to Canada soon.