My Personal Cat

One of the nice side effects of Project 365 (into month 3 now, and still going well!) is that I end up with a lot of photos that don’t make the blog that I wouldn’t have taken if I wasn’t spending a lot of time with my camera every week.  Claws is easy to photograph, and quite personable, so I end up with a lot of pictures of him.  Tabi is harder to take photos of; her all-black fur casts weird shadows and reflections, and shows every bit of dust she picks up rolling around under the bed.  She also has a naughty tendency to run at me and try to put her nose all over the lens when I want to take her picture!

I think that my photo class and my increasing familiarity has helped in at least some of these respects (we didn’t cover “preventing nose-prints on your lens” in class), which results in much better pictures of the cat who loves me best.  I’m pretty pleased to have these, because Claws usually gets a lot of attention for his eye-catching (sorry, Claws) appearance, and Tabi tends to fall by the wayside even though she was the first cat I had that was truly “my” cat.  A lot of people look at pictures of Tabi and pronounce her “scary” or “alien-like” because it’s pretty hard to capture her furry, goofy personality in photos between the difficulty of lighting her and catching her being herself without having her get distracted and run over to be petted and inspect my camera.