Meet Eve the dwarf hamster. She has a 10-gallon fish tank I clean out once a week. It was time for her cleaning so before I did that I put white poster board in there with her wheel and took some pictures. It wasn't easy getting a picture of her that had the face in focus while she was spinning. I took about 100 pictures and found one that worked.
Thank you everyone for the great comments. I am happy with the place I got. Sadly Eve passed away on the 15th of January. She was living in a 10 gal-opened top aquarium tank. She stayed in a upstairs bedroom. When we got home the other day a cat was in front of our door cold and hungry. It was 7 degrees out and was going to be 6 below that night. We took the cat in but forgot about Eves opened cage. Yep the cat got to Eve. From the looks of the crime scene the cat just wanted to play with Eve and looked shocked at what she had done. Anyway to save a life we had to lose another. I am glad I have this picture to remember her by.
The cat has now left again. The weather got warmer and her belly full she ran out the door yesterday morning. I think she will be back.
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The story gives the title an appropriate double-meaning. :) Great job on this - congrats and condolences. Hope you got a picture of the cat before the wolves get to it. ;-)
This was one I liked. I love that circle of blue contrasting with the white background. Perfect theme and the capture of the face is perfect as well. Congrats on your new PB!
Thank you Lonni and thank you everyone for the wonderful comments. I really enjoyed entering this one and using the update button for the first time. :=)
Oh Agnes, you've done so well (should have been higher in my opinion!) I am particularly impressed to read that the wheel really was spinning - I was convinced in voting that it was done in post processing. Didn't matter though - I gave you an 8.
I love the way the blue pops, I love the lines in this and I love the motion in the wheel but maintaining the clarity of the eye. Well done, would like to read your capture/editing steps :)
No argument over the concept here! I see some artifacts in the upper left corner and in various places around the edge of the wheel. Some grayish areas around the stand as well. I am on my calibrated monitor at work right now. I suspect my monitor at home will show a nice clean white background. I'll be curious if anyone else sees this. I won't ding you for it, it's subtle.
Added: Looking at it on my monitor at home now, and as expected, it appears to be a nice solid white background with none of the artifacts that were previously visible. If I look really hard in the upper left corner I can see a hint of a color difference, but only because know it is there.
A great take on the challenge... pretty humourous actually! I like the contrast of the blue and the white... and of course the effect of speed in this shot.
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