i miss the kitten

gimmicks

hehe ...... i love how they're trying to make big SLR cameras more "consumer friendly" and they constantly add all those silly little gimmicks on them so that the wannabe photo enthuziasts can walk around with big ass SLR's and his the "auto picture" and the auto focus and walk around like they know what an F-stop is.

Oh and if that wasn't enough...now the new cameras have such "wonderful* (eye roll) selections as colour selection. So that you get shots all in Black and White with the exception of your selective color....say red.

And of course, you just must go for the biggest camera in the shop, because those teeny point and shoots are just not capable of taking good enough pictures. No. Sorry. YOU can't take good pictures, not the camera.

HAHA

And then there's that whole thing that the keep upgrading SLR's with megapixels. So you have a 12 megapixel camera and you take your shot, most likely a "macro" flower shot(cos those are artistic you know) with your subject perfectly placed in the middle of the photo frame. *chuckle* If only they could equip SLR's with proper framing gimmicks, instead of uselessness such as color selection.
But back to the 12 megapixels....why?? for a photo print of 4x6 you don't need more than maybe 4 megapixels. For an 8x10, you don't need more than 6. I used to work in a photolab and the 8x10 prints were rare. Those going up more than that, the 16x20 or 20x24 were even less frequent. So with 12 megs you pretty much take up memory card space and email space and computer space. I just don't get it.

Oh but you COULD buy a gigantic memory card....but most people don't know that the bigger the card, when it fills up, it slows down the camera AND there's a chance of ruining your card with all those pictures on it. It happened. Most cameras aren't built for that kind of memory space. Your digital camera is esentially a little computer and it works to record those images and sometimes all that information is too much for that little computer.

Anyway...my point is that the camera doesn't take the shots...the photographer does. If you own a "bad" camera, chances are it's you who doesn't know how to use it. ;-)

what's there to do today?

stupid cat

Sometimes I wonder about the capacity of an animal to know that they don't belong somewhere. Do they know they're just being passed along from person to person? Do they care? Is it part of their plan of existence on this earth?

So one theory by Seth says that animals know things we don't. ALso he says that animals choose us instead of us choosing them when we go to the store or to the shelter, etc. Seth also says that when an animal suddenly gets sick or dies, it's because of the probable realities coming into play. I think Jane's cat died suddenly at an early age because that cat in her probably life was a stray, so naturally those live less.

Anyway... I used to believe that theory for a while and then I thought "but some pets get moved from house to house and some run away like idiots from a perfectly good home to end up(in some cases) with morons". So then where's the logic in that Seth? Does a dog purposely choose a life of beatings and malnutrition?

Why not? We choose, as per some schools of spiritual thought, our own obstacles and pain and errors in life to learn and have our personality in this lifetime grow as a spirit, so why not animals? Why shouldn't they choose? Maybe it's part of their universe and understanding with their human companion to teach them things, even if the lesson is to teach that being human means overpowering a smaller animal and beating it.....or teaching a human that running over a dog and leaving it there to squirm is......something... I don't know..to me it's obviously wrong but to that person it has to mean something else. It means SOMETHING. It has to. The universe makes sense and is linked even in the most faulty of outcomes.

And then there's my cat who chose me to live with me(because i never wanted a cat...and now I have 2), but now she's been cheating on me with my parents asking them for pets and rubs and sleeping at their feet.

No really...it's fine. I still have Miss Bertha who loves me more...especially when i'm holding food in my hand.

I don't know where i'm going with this. Just a random thought to justify bonding with a foster cat and then dropping her off back to her prison cell at the shelter so she can get adopted for real. She walked in and sniffed her cage and I thought "so this is it then. You're just gonna sit there and stare down the other cell mates and forget about me?". So I walked off sulking...until I bought a new pair of Maryjanes :D

But really...I wonder if there's a hidden meaning to her. Maybe she knows something I don't. Like "it's ok G, I finished my job with you, I'm waiting for my next human". And maybe the next human will be her greatest challenge. Maybe they'll make her pop out thousands of kittens. Maybe she'll end up a stray. Who knows? But i'm sure she knows and has chosen that.

So long kitten...