Voting to help me decide my best kitty photo has closed.... Here are the results
"Sleep with One Eye Open" 2
"You Killed my Saturday..." 10
"The Winker" 1
"Hide and Seek" 1
"Gator Play" 1
"You Killed my Saturday ..." will be entered in Paper Mama's contest! Thanks for all the help everyone here and on facebook!
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More recently, I've begun to want my photos to tell stories. When I first started to photograph, I was content on catching pretty objects, scenery, cats, etc. While that is all well and good, it tends to be more just a practice in catching the right layout, color, contrast... the right type of shot. Looking back at those photos, I find that they are of great quality but don't remind me of a moment. They don't evoke as much of an emotion as others. So hence my new desire to catch moments. Oddly enough this new desire has occurred before the most recent Paper Mama challenge to show off your "Best Shot" of your child or pet.
Two weeks ago, I considered this one of my best photos...
"Sleep With One Eye Open"
The composition and the bokeh were awesome! Plus who doesn't love a little kitty with her head upside down. But it doesn't tell an entire story... Just a glamor shot of my little model cat. (Yes, she does model often for me.) Mind you, it does tell of a sleepy kitty being pestered but many cat shots tend to involve sleepy kittys as that is what they do best. =)
So I started to skim my flickr account to pull up some contenders for the Best Shot... At first I found this beauty of a moment. It's not a happy moment but it tells a story. A story that all pets hate... This shot was taken after bringing our 2nd oldest kitty, Squeakers, back from the vets. I'll give you a guess as to how he got his name... When afraid, he howls and cries... stick him in a cat carrier and it sounds like your taking a dying animal to the Vet. (I've had Vet Techs come running thinking I was bringing in a true emergency... most think it was a cat run over by a car.)
"You killed my Saturday..."
At any rate... This photo is named "You killed my Saturday..." because this particular Saturday was a sick Vet visit. Squeakers' visit was due to a bout of vomiting(Not the normal, I over ate and then drank water which expanded my food making me sick that cats normally get. Rather he had the full on vomiting till it was just bile for a couple days. It was the type of sick kitty that screams something isn't right). After being poked, given an xray and a general check up... The vet sent us home with the diagnosis of Squeakers having no blockage or severe ailment but most likely a case of the nerves (Seeing that this cat has had idiopathic cystitis, vomiting due to anxiety isn't impossible) to be treated with OTC Pepcid for an upset stomach. When home and release from his cage, he immediately ran full speed under the bed... staying there for HOURS! After checking on him for what seemed like the 13th time, I noticed the sun shining on my sad little kitty who was mad that I made him go to the Vet. And for those of you who didn't think animals could show facial expressions... I have to say he's putting on a good pout face here. ;)
The next photo was one taken a few weeks back.
"The Winker"
The story behind "The Winker" is as follows... I had no desire to get up on that particular Sunday morning so I continued to lay sideways across the bed until I figured out what I wanted/needed to do. My husband decided to pester me and our 2nd youngest kitty Scout decided to join the fun on the bed. Out of sheer luck, the cat & the husband aligned in a such a way that I saw a perfect rare shot that could never be set up like that again. Slinking off the bed to not disturb the cat (as you know they don't stay long when there is movement around), I ran to snag my camera. I slipped back across the bed with all the auto settings on so I could catch the moment before Scout ran off. Sadly, the autofocus went for the close face... my husband (Pre-Wink). Switching to manual, I focused on the kitty who just as I clicked blinked his one eye. And Voila... The winker was born.
The third photo was one taken shortly after we moved.
"Hide and Seek"
Our youngest and littlest kitty out of the four, Alice, was playing on our cat tower behind the window curtain. She was cooing and mewing as she does to get attention. And the sunshine through the window was shining bright making her baby blue eyes sparkle. So I snagged my camera and began to line up a shot. Upon seeing she was being given attention and wondering what I had in my hand, she peaked forward to sniff and I caught this little gem called "Hide and Seek".
My final and fourth photo is still coming... See our OC (old kittycat - he's 11 yrs old), Roscoe, doesn't stick around much to be photographed. He's shy and afraid of most everything. He's a watcher and a looker.
"Gator Play"
Currently one of my favorite photos of him is where he's playing with his gator (named "Gator Play"). For some reason he loves to play with this plastic gator. It goes missing for years before I find where he hides it. This particular night, I had found the gator and pulled it out for him to play. As you can see, everything is in focus but Roscoe as he baps at his toy. While I love this photo because my 11 yr old cat is playing with his gator, I'm sure I can get a better shot of him... I just have to time it right. Hence why Roscoe's best is still to come.
So which one do you like the best for "The Best"? Posting is open until June 24th for paper mama so tell me which I ought to submit as I love them all! I'll give you until
To view all the photos I've posted in the last few years, give a look at my flickr site -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/violet6533/
When you hit the gallery show photos, I'd suggest clicking on different sets as the show photos are MANY(hundreds...I think)!
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