Most of today's post deals with some experimenting and with a crazy, funny barn cat.
The experimentation involves every photo 'cept the one of the storm clouds, which was taken yesterday afternoon.
I used a different lens for this morning's shots.
It's been sitting around the house for a few years, mainly because my previous camera got in the habit of collecting spots on its sensor, which, in turn, appeared on most of my photos.
I soon learned that those spots can sneak into a camera during lens changing.
Since it would cost me $50-$60 every time I'd finally break down and have the sensors cleaned, I quit changing lenses.
Now, however, I have a camera which cleans the sensor every time I stop shooting photos.
One day about a year after purchasing the new camera box, I realized that I could change lenses again.
Duh!
So I searched the house and found the lens, which is strictly telephoto as opposed to my regular 3-in-1 lens.
It takes some adjusting after having so much flexibility with the regular lens to remember the limitations of a telephoto lens.
So, I practiced that adjusting and had some fun outside this morning, especially with Miss Sunny, our new barn cat aka queen.
She's a funny kitty, and she loves to perform whenever I'm working with the horses.
Usually, there's no sign of Sunny when I reach the barn, but once she hears me getting ready to lead horses to pasture, she appears, seemingly out of nowhere.
She darts down the aisle way, leaps into the hay stack or races through the box stalls or even takes off on a dead run across the barnyard.
She has absolutely no fear of the horses, and they don't pay much attention to her, even when she occasionally zips under their bodies, dangerously close to their hooves.
So far, nobody has stepped on Sunny, and I'm leaving it to instincts in hopes that never happens.
Sunny also likes a bit a routine in the midst of her barn antics. While CB eats his grain and I'm grooming him, that's time for Sunny to lap up water from the automatic waterer in the next stall over.
This morning, I caught her just as she had finished her drink. She was engaged in contemplation of "what to do next."
Well, after some serious pondering and a nice rollover in the barnyard, Sunny sensed a critter over beyond the north fence of the barnyard.
So, off she went, and that's the last I've seen of her today.
When it's horse leading time, I'm sure she'll reappear, primed for another funny Sunny performance.
Anyway, the lens seemed to work well, and I'm looking forward to using it again.
It's a quiet morning around here, and all is well.
Happy Saturday.
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