KimiKitten

== == =Bonnie McNair= ==I used a digital still camera we purchased in 2002 prior to a Spring Break trip to Washington, D.C. with my husband and two children. It is a Sony Cybershot S30 with an amazing 1.6 megapixels and a 6X zoom. Since a new Sony Cybershot (DSC-R1) is 10.3 megapixels, I am pretty proud of the results from my obsolete and heavy digital camera. I explored turning the date feature on and off and experiemented with various effects and using the zoom. I used GIMP to resize and crop the photos.==

This is a picture of our four month old kitten who is named Kimi. She is in the middle of discovering an empty cardboard box. This is a very representative photograph as it is normal for her to look at the world upside down. This shot was taken from a height of five feet using zoom.

Kimi interrupted during her exploration of a cardboard box full of feline possibilities. This was taken from an adult's point of view with no zoom.

Kimi reaching for the dangling lens cap using the Black and White setting on our camera. This shot was taken at eye level.

October 22, 2006 - I have entered this photo in our library's My Pet is Cuter photo contest. People informed me that they thought this photograph showed movement by the paw and made it different from the normal cat posing for a cute picture.

Kimi as an alien being using the Negative setting. Used GIMP to crop this image.

Kimi playing with the fabric tape measure. At her age, everything is a toy. I was trying to provide a visual scale but she was having too much FUN. While I adjusted the color balance, I like the contrast of the black, shadowed side versus the window lit side.

Kimi viewing a bird outside the window. I used the Solarized setting with tended to blur the edges of the leaves in this shot.

Kimi enthralled with the view out the window. Photo taken using the Sepia setting on our camera. This is my favorite shot as an awake and completely still Kimi is a rare occurance.

GIMP was easy to download and install however I was glad to have the PDF, Directions for using GIMP, since I found the multiple windows approach disorientating. In our public computing labs, we installed GIMP last fall but we uninstalled it based on patrons' feedback. They complained about it being confusing and since there was no "Undo Arrow" like in Microsoft Office products, they would simply close it out when they did something they did not like and start from the beginning. We then installed Corel Paint Shop Pro on our computers rather than Adobe Photoshop because the Corel was a fraction of the cost even with our library's discount on Adobe products.