After years in the storage bins, these ducks got dusty and dingy. Cleaning them up for this photo shoot session took some work; you can tell that what this guy really needed was a proper bath and a scrubbing. The results are plenty sufficient for my purposes, honestly though.
Category: Ducks On Stuff
Archive of posts from the My Duck On Stuff website.
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Rusty on a Gray Blanket
The venerable Rusty, one of the stars of the Quacked Panes comic run, was (of course) one of the first ducks I put under the bright lights in the tent. If I couldn’t make this duck look good, what was even the point? He’s a bit the worse for wear (he’s named “Rusty” for a reason after all) but hey, he’ll probably outlive me in the long run.
Mind you, not every picture came out well. I kept tinkering with the camera settings and that made some pictures come out too bright or too dim, and I’m not enough of an image-editing guy to know how to adjust for that without making the final results even worse, so what you see is what I can give.
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Tolo on a Gray Blanket
I know, three years without posting anything at all is basically writing off the blog entirely. I know! It’s just that… well, my life got down to a certain routine and that meant not many opportunities to place ducks onto things and take pictures of them.
And then 2020 hit. Well then!
A few months ago I bought a “light tent” apparatus with the idea of doing a “glamour shots” series of pictures of the various ducks. What you see above is one of the early tests. Other pictures from the series will appear here over time. (Yes, expect a lot of “X on a Y blanket” post titles for the foreseeable future. Sorry about that. Some content is better than no content, yes?)
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Gary the Racing Duck on a Laptop Computer
I traveled to Utah in late May to attend my daughter’s wedding. She had a present for me. “It’s a racing duck,” she said. Apparently it was part of a charity rubber-duck race.
Oh, and it is huge. I placed it on my laptop at the desk in the hotel room and took a picture so people could get a sense of scale.
Originally posted to Twitter on August 20th, 2017. (Yes, months after the event.)
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Tiger on a Model of the Wenatchee Ferry
How’s this for meta? First I took a picture of the duck on the actual ferry, then I took a picture of the duck on a model of the ferry while waiting at the Bainbridge Island terminal to board the ferry back over to Seattle.
As you can see, everything is accurately detailed and to-scale.
Originally posted to Twitter on August 10th, 2017.
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Tiger on the Wenatchee Ferry to Bainbridge Island
I expected the Pacific Science Center part of this Seattle trip.
I wasn’t informed about the Bainbridge Island part of the trip until shortly before it took place, though my traveling companion had planned it well in advance. She’s sneaky that way.
Somehow I didn’t collapse into a panicky mess. Not sure how. At any rate, before the ferry got going I snapped this picture which includes another ferry.
Originally posted to Twitter on August 10th, 2017.