Nevertheless, while I have a few updates I'd still like to add here before the year is out (and knowing that my very good friend, Carol, is now reading my blog as a way to keep in touch....thanks Carol!), I figured with this still being Christmas n'all that I would post a rather lovely pic I took recently of our little Ella.
Just like this time last year, she is clearly enamoured with Christmas - the lights, the decorations (which she steals repeatedly from the tree and hides by her bed), the hide-and-seek games with the other two critters among the carefully wrapped gifts.....which then mysteriously become bent, squished and slightly torn overnight. Gooooo figure.
So while Ella was looking so ridiculously adorable, staring at the tree, sniffing the coloured lights (and no doubt planning her next clandestine haul), I caught this shot of her:
I'm quietly very pleased with how it turned out. I purposefully used a very shallow depth of field (with my aperture wide open at F 1.8), to intentionally blur everything behind Ella while keeping her pretty little face relatively sharp. The coloured lights and decorations cooperated wonderfully in creating a very Christmassy bokeh effect and even creating catchlights in her eyes. And what a perfect model she was too. She patiently posed for quite a few shots, although this is my favourite. I swear she was transmitting a telepathic "please deliver lots of treats and catnip toys" message to Santa at the time I took this.
So, from Ella and the rest of us here in this crazy little family (me, Lorne, Mel and Louis), a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS to one and all. Wishing you much love, happiness and cheer!
