So...I promised the Dimetrodon that he would be featured in this week's 365 Toys theme, because he complained that he's often not included. See last week:
http://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2015-06-14
This week's theme being Nature Photography Day, I asked him what he thought we should do, what setting he'd like to pose in. Knock me over with a feather, he's been paying close attention to the 365 Toys and their friends, and has been really envious of CJ the Legographer
http://365project.org/tags/legographer What he most wanted was to try doing the photography. Well, why not?
We went outside to the back stoop and I happened to have brought home a couple of spiky seed pods from a horse chestnut tree on campus. I said, "Here's something from nature with an interesting shape." Oh, yeah! He liked that a lot -- said it reminded him a bit of his friend, Stegosaurus. (Just a bit, IMO, but I can see where's he's coming from.)
So I loaned him the use of the camera. You see he's taking the photo in portrait orientation. Even with the fossil rock I found for him to use to boost his height, he wouldn't have been able to push the button if it was on top. He took a few photos with slightly different composition. We both agreed that the one we're posting, by showing a bit of the house at the top of the shot, there's more context and people can see the he was the one who took the photo (Dimetrodon POV).
http://365project.org/mcsiegle/alternates/2015-06-15
I also took a sneak photo of him at work -- had to take it with the iPod because, of course, he was using the camera. Later, reviewing the couple shots of him I took, I thought "Where are the photos he took?" Well, duh! They're on the camera, not the iPod!
You're probably wondering about the hat(s). He really wanted to be like CJ who not only has a camera, but also a cool hat (a beret). I didn't have a little beret on hand and sewing and me? -- no chance. But I thought we could scare up some sort of hat among the stickers on ribbet.com. I really didn't think we'd find a beret, and for a while it didn't look like it. We quickly eliminated the mortar board, football helmet, and Santa hat. And he was disappointed that the Father's Day selection was all ties -- no hats at all. He tried on the hats you see at the bottom and was prepared to settle for the New Year's Eve party hat, even though he really, really, really wanted to use the pirate's hat. (The Pirates of St. Piran, which Kitty Hawke
@cutekitty and Swillin' Billy Flynn
@swillinbillyflynn are a part of, wear such wonderful pirate garb.) But we figured out that the hat is meant to be worn in a full frontal portrait and the odd blob of black that was covering his ear was an eye patch. It would have obscured his vision and hindered the picture taking, anyway. So I promised him sometime I'd take a picture of him from the right angle, wearing the pirate hat.
At the very last, I happened to click into the Bastille Day section and, OMG, there was the beret he wanted! First try, he had it on backwards -- at least I THINK he's wearing it right in this photo. I had to do a bit of cloning to neaten up the beret's appearance on his head. (in the process, learned that on ribbet.com cloning doesn't work on stickers; I had to save to the desktop and upload again with the beret now part of the jpg image.)
Well, anyway, I think he looks very dashing, don't you? I suppose when the rest of the dinosaurs and Neanderthal Man find out about the hats, they'll all want to try them on. Later...maybe.
By the way, I hope the dinosaurs notice that I'm posting this early in the week for a change instead of the very last day (one of their pet peeves.)
