Navel-Gazing

Things to come…

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Light posting over the last couple days, I’m afraid. Our kitten Mingus came down with a little kitty fever this morning of 106º (That’s 41ºC for the Fahrenheit- impaired) and is spending the night in the pet hospital, enough of a distraction to derail my blogging schedule.

Don’t despair, though, there is freshy bloggy material on the way. I’ve been writing drafts on a number of photography topics in the background. Things to come include:

  • Image post-processing (what happens after a photo is taken)
  • The importance of backdrop
  • Photographing uncooperative insects
  • Cameras and lenses for macro

If there is any topic in particular you would like me to post about, email me or let me know in the comments below.

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Update (12/12/07): Mingus is back from the little kitteh hospital- he’s doing much better!

Qu’est-ce que c’est?

6 Comments / Ants, Blogging, Navel-Gazing / By

Zut alors! This blog seems to have developed a following of Frenchmen. The shame of it is, I studied French for 5 years in High School and don’t remember a word of it.

The French ant-enthusiast forum Acideformik looks like a fine place to hang out on the intra-webs. Most online myrmecology forums are populated by 12 year-olds relating their experiences fighting red and black ants, or trying to trade in their allowance to import a colony of exotic bulldog ants (to kick the butts of both red and black ants, I gather). However, the French are over there having book discussions and contemplating the finer points of petiolar morphology. I’m jealous.