Bella in black and white

After reading Mike’s post in https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2025/07/15-things-i-like-about-my-camera.html [theonlinephotographer.typepad.com] about his b&w only camera, I decided to become “artsy” – so I set mine to b&w and took a photo of our cat in front of my computer…

Bella in black and white

The cat’s face has a bit of motion blur, because she was about to turn her head, and I had an aperture of f/4 and as such, the exposure time was 1/60th of a second only. The camera chose ISO2000 for this itself, and I really don’t mind the “grain” – film would have been far worse in that regard (and I only use film with up to 400 ASA). I took that image with the camera held in front of my breast, and the rear display tilted up as some kind of “viewfinder”. Olympus E-M10 Mk2 with the 17mm/1.8 lens by the same maker, and the jpg image is right out of the camera, unaltered.

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Caturday

Last Saturday in May ’25, and I realised that I haven’t published many cat photos lately. So here are two from today:

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Caturday
In the front: Bella
On my computer monitor: Tuna (RIP)
Photo taken with my Google Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS, converted to b&w using The Gimp
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Bella, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2025

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Happy birthday Bella!

Today is Bella’s 3rd birthday. So far, I’ve got one photo of her hanging out in her cat tree hanger which she seems to like lately:

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Bella the birthday cat, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2024

I wanted to get one using my studio strobe, but she didn’t want to get on that table – so from there I only have a selfie:

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Selfie, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2024

Had to get new batteries for my remote senders & receivers for those studio strobes, and currently I’m also charging the ones for the speedlight (a manual one made by Yongnuo). So maybe more later.

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First Caturday in November ’24

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A girl has to watch her frenemies, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2024
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The scent of the fav_hum, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2024
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Sleeping at unusual places, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2024

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One of Bella, one of Cookie (aka Samson)

Took this one of Bella some 9 days ago, while she was resting on one of our sofas in front of the piano:

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And yesterday I took another photo of Cookie, the male Birman neighbours’ cat (they call him Samson):

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Bella’s excursions…

Bella’s excursions are getting longer…
Yesterday when I first let out our small white female #cat Bella, she was back after less than an hour, and ate a bit. Then I let her out again – only to wait for more than 6 hours until she was back.
Today it was a bit less than 3 hours only. I “filmed” her coming and going using both my desktop (self-built AMD 5700G with 32GB/6TB) and Mitchie’s really old laptop (Dual Core Celeron with 2/256GB) using motion with its default settings of 640×480 pixels and 15 frames/sec. Two machines, because in 2 of 3 times she comes back another way than she went (window vs door). And in between, a neighbours’ cat was looking for her; yesterday it has been all three of the male neighbours’ cats…
I hope she enjoys these last days of our indian summer, and – like every cat owner – I hope that she’s safe out there…
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