As I age I find that I am becoming more of a morning person.
It has a lot to do with these guys.
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Jack and Charlie start my morning early by demanding to be let out….often before the sun is up.
Which means I get to see sights such as these as I start my day.
Chevvy is never far behind the kitty cats because after being let out comes one of her favourite times of the day…breakfast.
Then it is time to uncover Crash and mix his warm mash for the morning.
Now as it is Sunday [and remember the sun has only just woken herself] I crawled under the covers with a large coffee and answered comments on my blog, checked e-mails and played around with an image that is the ‘Technique Challenge’ over at Photoblog Challenges. The technique is called Pop9. Apparently you can get lenses to do it for you if you have more money than sense. Me however, I did it myself.
What do you think ? This is Sparky…you’ve met her before. She is my artist friend’s kitty and I thought she’d be perfect for this one.
Thanks Jake for this week’s Morning Challenge.
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Such gorgeous photos.
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Thanks Mondrak. The animals are just too cute not to photograph well…and as for the view – it is all down to Mother Nature. What did you think of the Pop9 ? I had fun making it.
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Very good 🙂
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Cute post. Love the pop 9 concept – had to go google it first :*-). You say you did it yourself. How? Which software did you use?
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That’s my reason for living…to educate.
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I used Photoscape for this one.
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Thanks. I am going to give it a try.
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Let me know how it goes.
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Cats are such altruists! What other animal would cut their own night’s sleep short just to protect you from missing that beautiful sunrise? 😉
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So true. They always put themselves out for the greater good.
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I love your posts. The sunrise is fantastic! Rock on, Jo! Rock on!
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Thanks Russell. I had fun with this one. The sunrise is amazing. We get so many great ones here…I feel very lucky when I see them.
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I don’t have pets so I’d have to put up a photo of my wife–I get up at 5 AM weekday mornings to get her breakfast ready and see her off to work. I don’t sleep much later on weekdays and I would probably tend to wake up early anyway. My days of staying up until 2 AM or longer and sleeping until noon are long gone. That is unless something changes in my workday schedule.
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You are such a good husband. I love that you get up to get her breakfast. I bet she does too. Alas there are no more 2 am nights in my life either. I just can’t hack it anymore.
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Great work for this week theme Jo, what a great way of starting the whole day with pets thanks for sharing my friend 🙂
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Thanks Jake. It is a great way to start your day.
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What is it about getting older and getting up earlier in the morning? I think it’s because we have to get up to pee 🙂 Darn I hate getting old!
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Some parts of it do present problems. But I would never want to go back to all that angst and uncertainty that is youth Angeline. Would you ?
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I love your roomies…and how you see them even more.:) Thank you, berry pea:)
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I love my roomies too Brynne. Though Charlie was really sick lately and Jackie is off her food and worrying me today with her behaviour. It is like having babies again. Remember those awful times when they were too little to tell you what was wrong but they were not well. I wish I could speak cat and dog and cockatiel.
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They are all so cute! I also like the sunrise.
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They are cute…and all of them are characters in their own right.
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Very cute cat photos Jo. And your sunrise is breathtaking, well done
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They are very cute cats Georgia…but shhhhhh…don’t tell them I said so. They already have huge egos.
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Awwww, love all of them! What a great family!!! 😀 Cats are demanding when it comes to your waking up. My cat used to wake me up around 7 o clock in the morning just cause she wanted company…. so cute!!!
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That is so cute Ioanna. I love them too, even when they drive me mad with strange demands at awful hours of the night.
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Lovely selections Jo!
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Thanks. I love showing off my fur babies, and will take any opportunity to do so.
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That sunrise is spectacular, Jo. Love your furry friends and the feathered variety too. He looks very perky so early in the morning. 🙂
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Thanks. It was spectacular that morning. He is very noisy. If I leave the room he screeches until I come back. Very social bird is our Crash.
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Is that Sparky’s morning yawn? Great shot of the morning sun.
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Thanks Gemma. It is a cute photo of Sparky. Her Mum loves that one – and I can’t remember but I think it was getting time for her afternoon siesta.
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Your adorable menagerie and that glorious sunrise are worth getting up early for! Love the Pop9 image even if I have no clue what you are talking about 🙂
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Thanks Madhu. I will pass along your compliments to the fur babies. They lllllooooovvvvvvvveeeeee compliments.
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As for Pop9…neither did I until recently. The Pop9 is actually a camera.
If you follow the link it tells you about it. But because of the camera I think it has gotten popular recently to edit photos with software to look like they were taken with the camera. Sort of Pop Art I guess. Very Andy Warhol.
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Have never heard of it before! Did you use the software or duplicate the images?
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I used the same image. It is actually quite good software. The website for the challenge had instructions on how to do it in Photoshop and I just found a way to adapt it with the one I have.
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What do I think? I think I want Charlie please 🙂 and your sunrise is beautiful!
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Thanks Gilly. My poor Charlie has not been well lately. But he is getting better. With lots of spoiling. Today though Jackie seems a bit off…she won’t eat. It reminds me of being a young Mum when the babies were too little to tell you what hurts. You feel so useless.
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Menage a cinq (5) lol 😀
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They take up so much room in bed at might. I usually ended up like an S to fit around them.
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Wow, I love all your pets! How fun to wake up each day to them! 🙂
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I love them too Nicole. Fun?? Hmmmm…not sure I think so on a freezing winter morning at 5am when Jackie is bouncing from bedside chest on to my chest and meowing LOUDLY.
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I can’t see wasting a perfectly good morning by being awake for it. That said though, your sunrise pictures are always amazing. I tend to prefer sunsets to sunrises though, as it is easier to be awake for them, and cocktails are often in the mix.
You morning people really drive me to drink. 😉 Thankfully, my most productive time is late night, and it is not unusual to look at the clock and see it is 2:00AM, or 4:00AM, and realize, you know, maybe I should go to bed. My kids are wonderful, and adjust their schedule to fit mine. They both sleep on the bed with me, tucked into whatever contortion I find my self sleeping in.
If I have to get up at 5:00AM or 6:00AM, they get up without complaint and are ready to eat breakfast and start their day when I leave the boat. If it’s a weekend though and I sleep in until 10:00AM or 11:00, or later… they are quite content to sleep in with me, and get breakfast whenever we all get out of bed. Damn, I love those kids. 🙂
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Don’t blame us morning people for you problem with the drink Cap’n…
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You morning people are the ‘reason’ I drink. 😉
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Your pets are gorgeous, love them all! Your sunrise photo is also beautiful.
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Thanks. They are pretty impressive aren’t. I love them all.
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My hubby knows how you feel – for my part, I let him do the stupidly early morning “let the cats out” call. Then again, how can you say “no” to faces as cute as those? Love the pop9 effect. At first glance, the cat looked like a bear – thought you were going to say that’s what you see from your front door, together with the rather jealous making view you have!
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OMG … the cats look so peaceful. The sunset is breathtaking. I would wake up early to that one anytime. AND …. Crash – what can I say…??? I has a bird many years ago of the same breed. I think he was a cockateel ( spelling – Ugh) anyway, his name was – ready ??? – Yo Yo What’s Up??? It was because everytime I went to his cage and opened it for him to fly out he did this dance that looked like he was a rap singer and dancer. lol
Thanks for the memories …..
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Oh that is so funny Isadora. I love that you called him that.
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Great response to the challenge, Jo, and you did it on Sunday too! Worn out with all that morning activity in your household but impressed as hell!
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Why thank you very muchly !!!!!!! So glad to read your comment.
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Great photos! Chevvy is a little doll!
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Yep she is. She is curled up between my legs right now.
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love your photos, Jo, especially of the sunrise.
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Thank you Imelda. I was so lucky o see it.
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I love all of your pets. My cat, Atticus, loves to wake me up early to eat. He also doesn’t have any issues waking me up at midnight to eat. He knows since he’s on medicated food I won’t say no. I wish I could see a sunrise like that here in London. All of the buildings block the view. I got Hook’s book yesterday and I’m excited to read it.
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Thanks. My girl Jackie is really unwell at the moment. We are back to the vets in an hour for more tests. Keep you fingers crossed.
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Wonderful pictures, as always! I have to agree with the Cap’n, though…I’m not now and don’t think I ever will be a “morning person”. Unless I am still up in the morning from the night before (which happens fairly regularly), I rarely get to see a sunrise but I see quite a few breathtaking sunsets. When Santa finally brings me a digital camera this Christmas, I’ll be taking a LOT more pictures. Until then (and even afterwards, I imagine), I get to enjoy yours. 🙂 Speaking of which, the pop9 thing…reminded me of Warhol. It’s interesting, but I think it would be even more so if you gave each of the 9 frames a different look by using filters or something. More variety, you know? Give Charlie a chuck under the chin and am keeping Jack in my thoughts. Hoping she gets a lot better very soon!!
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Thanks Corina. I do want to try one with different filters…but the challenge was to do one where every image was exactly the same. You should have a look at some of the others. They are much more creative than my attempt. Gave Charlie a chick…he said to say thanks. Jack still won’t eat…I put an update on the post if you are interested. But I think it is back to the vets again tomorrow.
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i guess we have the same routines every morning.. feeding my kittycat Star and my lovely dogs and then the birdies… busy busy mornings
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