Week Two, Day One

The Outer Banks Animal Shelter website is rather basic. The animal photographs are a little difficult to locate being as the shelter uses pet finder for the animals. For those of you who don’t know, PetFinder opens in a separate window.

http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NC234.html to http://www.petfinder.com/pet-search?shelter_id=NC234

I found this website a little difficult at first because of the search options. I wanted to see exactly what kinds of animals were at the shelter so I tried to search. In doing so I expanded the results to Virginia, Raleigh, Cary, Durham, etc. I just wanted to know what animals were here in Manteo.

So once I started over, refreshed the page and eliminated my searches, I was able to see the animals just in Manteo. An observation I made, there’s nearly double the number of cats on PetFinder as there are dogs (59 cats to 35 dogs). This is Mamba. She is a three week old brown tiger. She is a little off center in the picture but is still the main focus. Her eyes are very bright and blue causing the audience to be drawn in. Also, the level at which the picture was taken allows the audience to enter on the animals level.

The photo I took that captures some of the similar elements of a correct picture is of Mushroom. He is also a brown tiger cat who enjoys having his picture taken. It was actually very easy to get a good picture of him and I had several. I chose this one because no bars were disable with the animal was center and in focus. Also, the animal is looking at the camera with catch lights visible. This picture was also taken at the animal's level so the audience is more able to identify with the animal. Mushroom is very enticing and desirable.