Category Archives: Fergie

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Photos and fun stuff on the beloved Cowbelly Pet Photography mascot Fergie. AKA Ferguson, Fergalicious and Miss Monkeypants. Follow Fergie on twitter at @MissMonkeyPants

Fergie 50mm f/1.8

March 28, 2010 – 1:17 pm

This image is proof that if you are a Canon owner you don’t need to spend $1,400+ on a 50mm 1.2 lens, or $1,400+ on a 35mm 1.4 lens or $1,600+ on a 24mm 1.4 lens, to get really beautiful bokeh. This shot was taken with the $100 50mm 1.8 lens. That’s right, one hundred dollars. Go buy it here.

50mm 1.8 200 ISO 1/400 sec

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I stumbled on this image a few days ago while cleaning off my hard drive on my macbook pro, freeing up about 30GB of space (yay for me!).  I didn’t even know I had this shot, and in fact don’t ever remember seeing it before, or doing the black and white conversion on it. I have a lot of these types of files, shots I’ve taken that get filed away in some random spot, never to be seen again. I was thrilled to discover this, because I absolutely love it. Now if only I could remember what the B/W conversion was I did on it. ;-)

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Fergie 50mm f/1.2

March 23, 2010 – 12:04 pm

I had the occasion recently to try out the Canon 50mm f/1.2 L series lens on Fergie during a little shoot in our yard. The lens produces significant soft bokeh, does great color renditions and, although a little tricky to use wide open at f/1.2 because of the super shallow DOF, this lens makes it REALLY easy to produce nice looking shots. These are all SOOC- no editing in Lightroom or Photoshop applied.

All: 50mm f/1.2 manual 100 ISO 1/5000 sec

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My Love

February 17, 2010 – 8:33 pm

Whenever I am having a bad day all I have to do is look at my girl and she makes everything ok.

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en vacances

December 28, 2009 – 10:39 pm

I am on vacation until January 4th. Because I don’t have a day job, this means no work for me, whoopee! :-) Ok, maybe a few hours, but mostly this will be time spent relaxing, playing with the dog, drinking mimosas, going to the park, seeing movies, hanging with friends and family, shopping and other recreational pursuits. Hope y’all are having a lovely end of 2009. I imagine everyone is ready for it to be over!!

Since no post is complete without a photo, here’s Fergie at a cabin at Mt Rainier where she spent Christmas weekend frolicking with her family.

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This is the view I had pretty much the entire time we were driving. Fergie with her feet on the console, whining with excitement to see what fun place we were going to next.

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Mt Rainier happened to be one of those fun stops.

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A shot of Fergie taken at Paradise near the visitor’s center on the left, and a rare shot of yours-truly on the right.

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This is what she looked like at the end of each night, and also what she looks like right now, still recovering from her fun 3-day trip.

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I LOVE SCRABBLE!!! I won this game with something like 325 points because I’ve been playing every night on my iPhone for months. The hard level. Ohhh yeah. I only win about 50% of the time, but when I do it sure feels good…

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