Check out these about animals images:
Black Footed Cat (Kitten)
Image by Asten
Still a kitten, but more or less fullsized. Smaller than an average housecat. Born May 11, 2006. To put this in perspective, he's about 2 feet long.
Note: Some clown in Mexico decided to enter a photo contest with a ripped off image, managed to *win*, and other entrants discovered he copied his entry, along with other pictures including this one. This most assuredly is the original. My thanks to the folks who pointed this out.
Loved to be rubbed
Image by Takashi(aes256)
Miruku is happy to be rubbed at a bench, while we take a break of going out for a walk.
The following stuff is technical subject, and you can skip reading if you don't prefer it.
I took this with a streetlight that is very low color temperature(it probably is a Sodium-vapor lamp), and I had hard time adjusting color temperature. Still I'm not satisfied with the result. I shoot it with RAW mode, still there is something wrong with this photo. I guess that's because my camera's sensor is a Bayer sensor.(And almost the other digital cameras are!) A Bayer sensor has many green pixel sensors, and has less other color sensors(red and blue). If you shoot in extremely high or low color temperature and adjusting it, the info caught by green sensor is used non-green color info, and the info caught by red or blue sensor is used to build green color info. I guess that's might be the reason why I feel like this picture has less resolution.
By the way, Sigma is about to release a compact camera DP2 Merrill which has non-bayer image sensor. It has outstanding image quality! Can you believe it? It has better image image quality than ordinary DSLR! And I guess the camera don't have a problem like this photo.
お散歩の途中でベンチで休憩をとりながら、ナデナデされているところです。
（ここからは技術的な話になるので興味の無い方は読み飛ばしてください）色温度の低い街灯（ナトリウム灯）で撮影したので適切な色調に調整するのが大変でした。RAWモードで撮影して1時間くらい色温度を調節したのですが、どうもしっくりきません。センサーにベイヤー配列（ほとんどのデジタルカメラがベイヤー配列です）のカメラは人間の視覚で最も感度の優れている緑の解像力を上げるため、緑のセンサーの割合が多くなっています。極端に色温度の違う環境で撮影してから色温度を調整すると、緑のセンサーで検出された情報が別の色情報として、他の解像力の低い色のセンサー（青と赤）が緑の色情報として現像されるので、解像感の乏しい写真になってしまうのではないかと推測しています。
ところで、7月12日に発売されるFoveonセンサーを搭載したSigma DP2 Merrillの記事とサンプルを見て感動し（普通の一眼レフ以上の画質です！）、欲しくなっている自分をなんとかなだめていたのですが、上記理由でまた欲しくなってしまいました。ああ、困った困った。
[ Nikon D4, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G, f/1.8, 1/80sec, ISO5000, Lightroom 4 ]
