You know my kitty – Greenies are his cocaine!

He ate some a few minutes ago, so isn’t sure if he can stuff more into his wee frame.

His thoughts are interrupted by the hand.

He considers the possibility of a “scritching” instead of yummy Greenies.

Yep! A “scritching” it is!

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I keep sleeping through severe weather. I don’t regret it, though there is the crazy thrill of standing by an aluminum screen door in a lightning storm, behavior that defies common sense. It’s a tradition in this area.

How about where you live? Do people where you live stand by open doors or windows to watch severe storms rip down structures and trees? Or to take videos of the same?

I work smarter these days. I take a photo and crop it to get the effect of a close-up shot. Be”kool”, that’s my motto now!

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I know from my time in the US Army as a motion picture photographer that viewing action through a camera is like stepping into a different world. You lose sight of what’s happening above, below, and on either side of you. I nearly got wiped out by tanks coming off railcars, cars bearing under secretaries of this or that, and helicopter blades on these machines taking off. Of course, there was that jet engine I didn’t get sucked into by some miracle.

All those things above happened because I framed really cool shots with the wide-angle lens I preferred for all handheld shots when shooting with my Arriflex! “Images within the camera’s view are closer than they appear”. That should be engraved on all wide-angle lenses! The reviewers at the Pentagon loved these dangerous shots, though, noting they especially enjoyed my work.