Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautiful cat, Herb. Please do show additional photos of him. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:20 PM Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cat and Flower > These pictures were taken with a Nixon Coolpix S610 ($4--One M9 = 35 > 610s) which I bought to help decide whether Lightroom was a good > substitute for Darkroom before investing in the M9. > > The cat is a tonkinese which breed was produced by crossing burmese > with siamese. That the cat nuts consider this to be truly a breed is > surprising; if you mate two of them, statistically you get 25% > burmese, 25% siamese, and 50% tonkinese, just as Mendel would have > predicted. I'm sure I can submet better pictures of him in the future. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Ming+5-21-5.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Ming+5-21-5.jpg.html > > The flower was just taken on a walk from home, and I just lucked out > with it. There was a little Lightroom dodging to suppress the wheels > of a car parked across the street from it, but that's ok--I'm not a > journalist. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Flower-2.jpg.html > > As before, comments and brickbats welcome. > > Herb > > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, > for they are subtle and will pee > on your computer! > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >