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Animal photo magneticism. Oh the frustration!!!

Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:23 PM EST
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By Vlad's dog

"please, will you just go to bed now!"

"Let's Party, Dawg!"

"Isn't this our road?"

A tight fit and a favorite rock and hard place.

The old watering hole.

"yummy, he threw us some catfood."

Fergus guards the cat food from the rooster.

"well, this is what I think about your nail clipping idea."

The buddies.

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 Goofy buggers, always getting in front of the camera. I thought for while now that it was some kind of electro-magnetic power or it was the power that the orbed lens glass has, or it was the little buzzing and clicking that goes on that somehow attracts animals to wander into the picture plane and ruin a perfect camera shot of an inanimate object made by humans.

I have experimented with this premise and found that you can place a small empty rectangular box in front of your face and the animals will do nothing. Then you can glue a photo image of a camera on to that box, place it in front of your face and the animals will still not enter into your fake picture plane. Add some noise you say, did that, didn't work, animals were still unmoved and without any auditory induced nervousness to all the fakeness of the whole implied genre of experimental tools.

So it was down to two things, electro-magnetic energy or the lens.

Well since I can't produce that energy thingie very well I got my magnifying glass and my telescope and my monocle and opera glasses out and there you have it, the animals always appeared when ever and where ever I looked out of these orbicular optical contraptions.

And if I combined my different lens together I saw weird and amourpous animal shapes of all kinds and the combinations still did not scare the lens hounds at all.

It's the glass that makes animals appear in your photos all the time and not just any old glass, glass with shape, rounded shape.

All those wonderful shots of your beautiful rug pattern, your perfect lawn photo, your beautiful couch and living room furniture images, your perfect nail job on the porch floor planks summer photo all ruined because animals have been attracted to your camera lens and have walked in and ruined your perfect photos by placing their furry carcass somewhere it shouldn't be.

What is a photographer with pets to do?

Well, we must take more photos and hope that the animals don't notice what we are doing.

It will be a long and hard fight because animals are tenacious lens attracters.

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Vlad's dog

Harumph, I am so jealous of these guys getting all the attention.

  • 3 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:25 PM EST
MikeyWatkins

I love these photos from Vlad, every time I get a glimpse into the old homestead at "Chez Dog" I'm reminded of the Rod Stewart song "Country Comforts"

Soon the pines will be falling everywhere
Village children fight each other for a share
And the 6:09 goes roaring past the creek
Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week

I saw grandma yesterday down at the store
Well she's really going fine for eighty four
Well she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn
Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm

And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's any truck that's going home

Down at the mill they've got a new machine
The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen
Yeah but that ain't natural old man Clay would say
Cos he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day

Now the old fat goose is flying cross the sticks
The hedgehog's done in clay between the bricks
And the rocking chair's creaking on the porch
Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch

  • 3 votes
#1.1 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:58 AM EST
totaleclipse-10

Thanks, Mikey, for reminding me! I need this on my I-Pod for sure!!

  • 3 votes
#1.2 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:28 PM EST
totaleclipse-10

I love, love pet photos!! Your dog looks just like my Beagle ~ purple collar and all! He's a close match in colorings, maybe less freckles. Mine will start barking when he hears my hubby coming down the road. Won't let out a bark all day except for that. Just was exploring Newsvine. Hadn't been on for awhile. A certain article will bring me here. Glad I ventured here. Have to figure out how to post photos. Thanks for the little break!

  • 3 votes
#1.3 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:28 PM EST
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Shelby Davenport

When my daughter and I had a photography studio, it took 33 shots of 4 daschunds before we got one we could use. Perseverance.

When I used to throw my ball for Chance, she would know exactly when I was going to throw the ball by looking into my eyes. When I'd turn away so she couldn't see my eyes, I could throw it and successfully fool her. I suspect, it's the same when photographing them.

LOVE the driving dog!

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:30 PM EST
Vlad's dog

He always knows when he is on our road he gets to sit up front with the humans.

  • 2 votes
#2.1 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:38 PM EST
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HollyKl

Ha! They are canny little beasts, aren't they? Ozzie not only knows how to walk into my carefully composed photo, he has also learned how to warn all the wild birds away from the camera when we are on our morning walk; that way, he doesn't have to stop sniffing things while I take pictures that are not of him.

  • 3 votes
Reply#3 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:39 PM EST
rottlady

What a fun article Vlad, thanks for the laugh!

  • 5 votes
Reply#4 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:44 PM EST
TR-421173

:)

  • 4 votes
Reply#5 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:02 PM EST
Hiram-1381633

I hear yah brother, I have five camera addicts at home.

H

  • 4 votes
Reply#6 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:03 PM EST
Master Link

Uh, Vlad... what animals?... there's nothing in the photos... but an empty couch... shelf...and wooden floor...

I think you may need to back down on the dosage just a little :)

  • 4 votes
Reply#7 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:17 PM EST
Kearney Outlaw

Damn yanimals. Wouldn't see me wasting camera time on 'em.

  • 4 votes
Reply#8 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:10 PM EST
AmericaRepublic

looks like they got it made..lol..nice photos vlsad..

  • 4 votes
#8.1 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:29 PM EST
totaleclipse-10

You're kidding, right?

  • 3 votes
#8.2 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:29 PM EST
Kearney Outlaw

You're kidding, right?

Oh heck yeah. Anyone who knows me has seen what a camera hog my cat is. Heck, I even have a group on the vine named after him!

  • 4 votes
#8.3 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:17 PM EST
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etva

LOL! Great photos, but Fergus in the Car is my favorite! What a wonderful capture!

  • 6 votes
Reply#9 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:44 PM EST
Piletre

Yep, I agree with others.. Fergus in the car.. great pic!

I have lots of pics of Trav's butt. He will come wandering through as I'm ju-u-u-u-ust snapping the pic.

How in the world do cats manage to sleep in the most precarious places and then NOT fall off?

  • 8 votes
#9.1 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:43 AM EST
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58rose

nice pictures of the group

  • 7 votes
Reply#10 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:54 PM EST
Jackie-2759125

Oh my gosh I love the dash board pic of Fergus and the tongue sticking out of George. Animals are always moving and difficult to photograph when you intend to lol...I agree with you. I have so many pictures, as you mention, of them wandering into photos when I don't want or expect them to lol. The other night I was trying to take a picture of Amber with my cell phone and the indicator for taking a picture is a childs voice saying "say cheese!" and it's so fast that she doesn't react and make is so I get a good picture until she hears that...it's always too late and I've already snapped the pic because there is no delay lol.

  • 4 votes
Reply#11 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:33 AM EST
A. Macarthur

Possibly, the lens acts as does mimicry in butterflies and other organisms that display eye-like deceptions to intimidate predators. Maybe the animals "think" they're looking into a large eyes ... seeing their own reflections to boot.

My two cents.

  • 4 votes
Reply#12 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:53 AM EST
Vlad's dog

That was how I was theorizing it also A Mac. A connection between the eye, the mind and the mind's eye.

  • 3 votes
#12.1 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:24 AM EST
Hiram-1381633

You guys are over thinking this my cat is just a ham and attention hog. :-)

H

  • 4 votes
#12.2 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:34 AM EST
Vlad's dog

Ah, but Hiram, who taught our animals to seek celebrity? ;)

  • 3 votes
#12.3 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:41 AM EST
Hiram-1381633

I do not know they are adopted

H

  • 3 votes
#12.4 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:08 PM EST
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tzia62

LOL My dogs (especially Beaumont) sees the camera and immediately sits and poses. Bindi on the other hand, is a Diva, and has to be prodded and poked to "sit" and "watch, and eventually we get the job done!! You critters are precious, I always like to see them!!

  • 3 votes
Reply#13 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:47 PM EST
mstanley2265

Ok, seen those critters, now where are My Favorites....the Horses? :)

  • 2 votes
Reply#14 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:02 PM EST
Bartholomew ReedDeleted
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