New photos - may explode your head (you were warned)

Okay.. so today I used some of my xmas 'bonus' to buy a shiny new Canon EOS 7D camera, a Speedlite 580 EXII flash, and some other bits and pieces (mini soft-box for the flash, lighting stands, reflector and reflector holder, etc).  I've only just begun playing around with the new toys but already they are paying dividends, in the form of new, high-res photos of the committee which are so incredibly adorable that they will make your head explode into candy.

There are more pictures of Cookie than Spot, simply because Spot is a black kitten, and therefore the camera was having a hard time metering the exposures.  Yes, I know about using FEC, I just haven't been able to work out how to configure it on the new camera.  That might be a job for tomorrow.  Anyhow, behold the unlawfully cute photos of the committee!  (click for larger versions)

 

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It's CATURDAY!

These pictures are definitely not what you'd call my best work.  Being taken with a dodgy in-built camera on a dodgy piece of junk mobile phone will cause that.  Better photos will be forthcoming - I promise!  Trying to get these guys to sit still for 1/60th of a second is practically impossible.

Both Spot and Cookie are thriving, becoming larger and more rambunctious by the day. Cookie in particular is turning into a very handsome, very long-haired, very fluffy, very stripy little tabby.  There are few things cuter than seeing him curled up asleep on a purple velvet cushion - alas there are also few things harder than getting a photo of him there!

The Committee survive another bath

The Committee are gradually becoming better with their grooming and bathroom habits and so need to be washed less frequently.  They did however get a bath this afternoon and some epic snuggles afterwards.  Here you see Cookie (a/k/a The Kitten Formerly Known As Dora) and Spot (a/k/a The Kitten Formerly Known As Cheeky) wrapped up relaxing in front of my computer.  Hopefully Santa will bring me a macro lens and a flash setup for xmas so I can get some better photos of these guys!