A nice surprise

A while back, I posted about a great boarding facility for cats called The Cats Retreat. The cats have been there twice now, once for only four days and the second time for a fortnight. It took a little while to get to us because it was posted to our old address, but I was surprised to get a card from Glenda complete with a disc of photos from their stay with her. I’m sure she won’t mind me sharing a few of their “holiday snaps”.

Mojo was out and about everywhere by the looks but Rosie was a bit more reluctant to venture outside into the screened enclosure. I have my theories on this. The fortnight we went away coincided with some pretty hot weather. Glenda is kind enough to air condition the indoors on those really hot days. Mojo loves the heat but Rosie, like me, struggles with it and prefers to stay in cooler temperatures. It really wouldn’t surprise me if she stayed inside purely to make the best of the cooler temperatures.

Thank you very much Glenda!

Macro madness

I was a bit bored while waiting in the hairdresser’s this morning for my new colour to set and so I had a quick flick through Flickr on my mobile. And what should I see but Leigh giving me a dig about how she hadn’t seen any evidence of me using my new macro lens. Well I could hardly disappoint her could I?

So of course, I went for my usual victim and I’ve started a new Macro Shots set on my Flickr stream. I took a fair few, love the rapid fire that I can do with the 40D. So if you’re bored, that’s where you’ll find the new macro stuff – the old stuff, well it’s just in the photostream somewhere to be sorted at a time to be arranged in the future. For the uninitiated, that means never.

Do you think she's flipping me the bird?

Talk to the paw!

It’s only when I go sifting through my hard drive that I realise just how many photos I’ve taken of the cats. Over the last 2yrs, I’ve accumulated around 1200 shots of passable quality. Thanks to the digital age, I’m not forced to choose one shot over another to put in an album. Now that I have a Flickr Pro account, I don’t even have to be selective with my uploads. Mojo has gotten to the stage where he will squint or close his eyes when he hears a beep or sees the start of the flash. He just has to see the DSLR now and he heads out through the cat flap. Rosie on the other hand remains willing to be my close up queen.

I took this one on my old Panasonic after about 50 shots in macro and to be honest, I can’t even remember what it was I was trying to capture. I guess I was feeling a bit fussy like Rah and wanted it to be just right. Regardless of what I was going for, Rosie demonstrated quite nicely that even a poser has her limits – no more photos today thank you!

Kiss my furry butt!

Sometimes I get the distinct feeling that I have taken way too many photos of the cats over the course of their lives for them to appreciate being the center of attention. He better get used to it though….the DSLR is here to stay!

"Oh great....new camera huh? Bigger lens on this one I see....oh and it makes a clunky noise when you press that button now. Oh joy. I will struggle to contain myself. Really."

Change in perspective

Pensive cat or cranky cat? Two photos taken around 30 seconds apart – basically long enough for him to realise that his photo had indeed been taken and glare at that pesky human with the camera. Night time shot, lights on with no flash. No laser kitty eyes!