Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/5 sec @ f/3.5, ISO 400, 5.1 mm

You may notice that the project blog layout looks a bit different starting today.  I have recently switched over from using Squarespace.com as my hosting provider to running my own, fully customizable, WordPress installation on a shared server.  The major reason for the change was to unlock the door for all kinds of plugins and limitless templates.  The plugin I am most excited about is the Flickr comment importer.  This plugin grabs any comments left on Flickr, where all my images are hosted, and posts them to the article here on the blog.  Comments imported from Flickr are prefixed with “Flickr” to differentiate them from comments left here on the blog.

Now onto the photography.  Today’s picture was a quick snap of our two dogs, Leila and Mela, laying together on the couch.  I had to carefully get off the couch and grab the nearest camera, the Leica point and shoot, in order to capture this scene before they moved.  In the picture, you can see that Leila is actually laying on Mela’s back and neck.  My fiancee and I have never seen them do this before.  In fact, Mela will usually move immediately when Leila starts to climb on her.

Because the picture came out noisy and out of focus around Leila’s face, I decided to process it heavily.  I feel the black and white coloring, coupled with the heavy vignette around the edges, really draws the eye into the important part of the scene.