Your Best Artistic Photos of Your Felines

How photogenic your tux is! Mine is always in motion, the best pic I have been able to get of him is the one where he was in the middle of grooming so looked up with his tongue half out.

Love them!

Is that tuxedo cat the "Casey" you spoke about in another thread?

And who is the pretty calico?

These are gorgeous glamor shots! I will have to see if I can find any nice ones when I get home.

k4k

Please don't get me started! Oh wait, to late. This is Beacon.

Beacon, the mighty hunter.

:sharp intake of breath:

Boots:


and Gracie:


in repose.

Ooooh....

Hamlet is enchanted by the snow

What a composition, with his tail drawing the eye back to his nose! :)

Oh wow, these are gorgeous photos! Beacon is a natural model! Boots, Gracie, Hamlet... all beauties! :-)

>anna_in_pdx, those are three different tuxedo cats (RaeAnn, Agamemnon, and Kira, respectively).

>fuzzi, none of them are Casey, from the other thread. Until we recently lost Casey, we had four tuxedos -- our first four cats. Pixel is the one that is likely part Turkish Van (white body, orange markings on head and tail), and Jean-Luc is the one with the big green/yellow baby eyes. I don't think he's calico, as they're all female, right? Jean-Luc actually looks closest to a ragamuffin, when I compare him to breed pictures.

Not pictured in this thread is Casey, the fourth tuxedo -- he actually had a bad eye (slightly recessed and with scar tissue on it), making it hard to get a good photo although honestly we didn't even "see" the bad eye anymore! Also not pictured in any thread is Precious, who looks like a British shorthair, a Zsa Zsa Gabor-like diva who is hard to photograph.

We're just breaking in Sheldor, our new kitten. He's not yet integrated with the others due to lingering kitten cold. Some cute kitten photos but no artistic shots yet!

^suitable1, I have to say it again -- that first shot of Beacon is an absolute piece of art. Thanks for sharing it!

Marissa's eyes:



These two aren't my cats, but I love the photos.

Cat in the Boboli Gardens in Florence:



Sherpa, who lives at Taliesin:

Jackson Kat

Oh. My. Goodness.

This one is not quite as beautiful as most of those posted, but I was still pleased with the effect when I took it. It's the cat of a friend who we were visiting.

Oh - these are gorgeous.

Have any of you ever thought about submitting some of your photos for these cat calendar contests? A number of nonprofits have these competitions. Of course it costs to enter, but it is fun to see your cat as April or May. My neighbor's cat was Miss April (I think) in one of them. A lot of these photos look like winners to me.

We may have put ourselves out of the running, if they have a "not previously published" rule -- because (at least in the writing world), posting someting on the open internet is considering publishing for such purposes.

But thank you! Definitely something to look into!

Sister's cat: Tuffi

^ooh, love the pretty patterns and those gorgeous eyes!

I've already added these to the actually library of kitties I think, but what the hey!

Ginny:



Charley at our old place:



Charley and Harvey in the window:



Harvey

Harvey has the most striking face!

That's a really old fashioned sink at your old place. My grandmother's house had a similar sink.

It is isn't it! Quite common for older New Zealand houses. Thankfully, the one we have now isn't so old and icky. Harvey's gorgeous (well, they all are): She was a stray and my husband called her Harvey after Harvey Dent from Batman. Twoface! Even though she's a girl, it stuck once we'd caught her inside and found out her gender.

This is Princess Poppy playing with a sock

Edited to mention that the pic needs to be lightened and brightened.

(Later) Lightened and brightened - a bit noisy but ...

All of these pictures are so breathtaking! I agree with k4k that they would win Cat of the Month.

I love Ginny in the grass!

It's big world out there --- Jackson

What a photogenic cat!

Beautiful pictures, all of them! Some of them look like studio shots!

Since I promised another pic of George on the other thread...


and there's Martha...

George? And Martha? Hmm.

Last name 'Washington'? :D

BTW, y'all must have really nice cameras...I know what I want for Christmas!!!

> 32, 33

Now, see, I was thinking Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?!

Oh, that's funny! I hope they get along better than that George & Martha. :)

I was thinking of the hippo children's book.

George and Martha

My anoles are also named George and Martha! ;-)

Their predecessors were Cheech, Chong, Kim (we couldn't tell he was a boy until he grew older), Reptar, Godzilla and Fafnir. Reptar and Cheech had babies—teeny, tiny little things—named Huff and Puff. Sadly, they didn't live long because we could never find food small enough for them to eat.

Sorry to hijack the kitty thread for some cold-blooded critters...

> 33-36:
Hehe... We went to see Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf the night before we got them.

> 37:
That's a bunch of names! Why George and Martha?

Here is a photo of Georgy, the youngest of my three cats



At the time I took this photo he was a stray who was hiding under my house and stealing food from my cats whenever he had the opportunity. It took a while for him to trust us enough for us to get near him. We found out that he had been abandoned weeks before by his owners when they moved.

We took him in. He was very underweight (2.5 kg) and his long hair was terribly matted. He was about 2 years old.

He is now 6 years old and weighs 6kg. He is food obsessed,

Second is a photo of my 8 year old Spider. A friend photoshop this for me. Both Spider and the spider are real. Spider is a big wuss.



and thirdly my oldest cat, Miss Chicken who was born with only three legs. She will be 14 this year, this photo was taken a few years ago

That is sooo nice that you took in Georgy!!! He is very cute.

> 37

Sorry to hijack the kitty thread for some cold-blooded critters...

That's okay. I'd never heard of anoles until your post. So I googled them, and they are cute!

> 39

We found out that he had been abandoned weeks before by his owners when they moved.

People like that ought to be abandoned themselves.

#42

I agree. I can't imagine how anyone could abandon a cat.

#42

I'd say have them shot, myself. Save the world the extra mouths to feed...

All our cats are, shall we say, anxious for their dinner, but only one of our cats is actually food-aggressive, and we're pretty sure he was dumped in our apartment parking lot, and/or left for days at a time without adequate food, water, and company.

If we make animals dependent on us, then we have a profound responsibility to them.

I grew up on a farm in South Dakota and we lived right alongside a busy highway, well as busy as a highway gets in South Dakota, and people regularly drove the five miles out of town and dumped their dogs out and then left. We always had a stray or two on the farm. I never could understand that mentality. Just plain sick. If someone can be cruel to animals, they will also be cruel to humans, IMHO.

#38
Anoles are not usually found in "groups" in the wild and our terrarium is really only big enough for two, so we try to get a male and female pair (they only live about 3 years), and I just come up with two names that seem to go together! The problem is that juveniles of both sexes have a white chevron pattern on their backs. Males lose theirs but females usually keep it. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure both George and Martha are males! I just never renamed poor Martha! George picks on Martha, but so far, not bad enough to kill him which is what Cheech did to Kim and Fafnir, poor things. My husband makes sure Martha gets his fair share of crickets and moths.

Gorgeous, gorgeous babies... as soon as I get a camera near my pair someone decides to scratch madly, groom a distinctly unphotogenic spot or give me a lensful of bum.

Here in Houston we get anoles wandering into the house on occasion. Considering the herd of cats we have, it is QUITE a challenge catching a quick-moving anole and relocating it outside before the cats get their paws on it. But I did manage to catch and release a baby anole just the other day.

We had them in Florida, too. I never thought I would like lizards, but I get quite attached to the little things! I cried buckets when little Chong died. Cheech was a stowaway on some car parts my brother-in-law bought from a guy who lived in Pensacola. That's how it all started!

We have anoles and skinks here in eastern NC. Most of the time they stay outside, but occasionally they come in. I've managed to save a couple for release outside, but have also found several poor little bodies that the cats had been playing with. :(

Here's a picture I took a couple of years ago:



And here's a picture of a skink, I don't have any scanned ones on this computer:

Your story, Fuzzi, reminded me of something one of my cats was doing the other day.

My furry babies are mostly indoor, with outdoor privledges. When I put my Blaze out (she of orange black and white torty fame), she went straight to the flower box against the basement wall. She sniffed, then ran to the far end. After a minute wait, she reached out and wacked something, then ran to the opposite end of the flower box. Again the sit, wack, and run.

Naturally, I got curious as she continued this.

The silly thing was playing whackamole with a mouse from either end of the flower box!
Talk about playing with your food, eh?

(52) gilroy, that's funny (not from the mouse's perspective, of course!).

My dh has shared a story with me from his childhood, about his cat, "Babe" and another cat that lived in the neighborhood. One day when my dh was about 15, he noticed his cat was running back and forth on his side of the street, and another cat was running back and forth on the opposite side of the street. Curious to see what was happening, he walked outside. He discovered that there was a mouse in the street: when it ran to one side of the street, the cat on that side would meet it and smack it with his paw...so the mouse would then run back across the street where the other cat would also meet it and smack it. The cats were having a game of ping pong with the mouse!

Happy ending: my dh rescued the mouse from the two feline fiends... ;)

Oh, fuzzi. Your dh is like my dh. :-)

I think our cats would actually be afraid of mice, even though they were all originally from outside. They are strange ones. They will follow insects around the house, but I rarely see them try to catch them. Maybe they know the insects are smarter.

k4k

Miss Tilly & Taji Boy:


Miss Tilly:


These are my fave pics of my guys, I'm hoping to get one of Taji that's as good as that 2nd one of Tilly - one day :)

They are beautiful, Seanie!

Why does Miss Tilly's last picture make me think of a languid nude French painting?

Love the lavender blanket -- makes the photos beautiful! (Of course the gorgeous cats don't hurt either!)

I concur, that second picture is a stunner. :)

More Jackson Kat.

Looks like a wild cat of some sort. Puma, maybe.

(A Pooma in the Cra-vusses?) (Tell me somebody remembers that line???)

I alway thought that he looked a lot like the pink panther

Merry - you are totally spot on about the languid French nude!

Sounds familiar, @MerryMary, but I'm drawing a blank.

> 64

I'm reminded of Manet's Olympia.*

*image by Susan Herbert

Sherman, set the Way-Back Machine for the 1960s...The Smothers Brothers had a lengthy routine about Tom mispronouncing "puma" and "crevice." My memory sometimes focuses on minutia.

I saw The Smothers Brothers show infrequently, it might be that my brain hid that little bit of trivia for 45 years...

Ilsa


Astrid


Pearl


Dov


Gur

Wow, your guys hold still or else you are just a really good photog. I've never gotten such a shot of any of my felines.

Monohex, look how much your Gur looks like my RaeAnn (first cat in the first post in this thread), with the asymmetrical markings!

Well, thanks anna_in_pdx. It is funny how much of it wasn't controlled, though. I waited for good light in most cases. And I waited for the cats to be in interesting poses. The quick shutter of an SLR helps a lot, too. The first two photos were taken of my parents' current cats, with a digital SLR. The next three photos are of now deceased cats that I grew up with. I took those pictures with an old, fully manual film Canon SLR.

#70

Wow, yeah, I see it! Great looking cat you've got there.

Gur was a good little cat. A real wild boy, but sweet. It broke my heart that he died at 3. Thankfully almost all of the rest of the cats I've lived with over the years have lived into their teens.

Here is a photo of my Spider. He is a Mama's boy and doesn't like anyone but me.



My cats don't like having their photos taken and saboutage my efforts about 95% of the time so getting good photos of them isn't easy.

Is it just me, or does it seem that black cats are hard to photograph? Mine act like black holes, sucking all the light (and contrast) out of the picture.

Hi fuzzi, #74,

In the "good old days" with bromide film we would just
twiddle a few settings. Nowerdays I must admit I haven't even read any of the Manual I downloaded for my Camera :-)

I suspect we want everything to happen by "magic", right now.

I finally learned how to add a pic so my Lexi can join all the other kitties!

#76 - and worth the effort!

Pretty Lexi kitty!

My two are such stinkers! For the past week, I have been trying to catch a good pic of each, but just as I press the button they move. That's not the worst of it though - after they thwart my picture-taking efforts they look like they are laughing.

They are.

#78--Thank you!

#79--Post your pics up anyway! We want to see.

74> You're right, black cats are hard to photograph. I ended up buying a camera that was good in low-light, just so I could get some decent pictures of Jack. (Before that, my brother would always say Jack looked like a turd with eyes.)

Or a black spot on the bed...

83> Jack's song is Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face." LOL

Tabitha :)

I love that first picture of Tabitha!

85> Beautiful whiskers.

Is Tabitha a Maine Coon? We had a Maine Coon like that only her main had more orange... I miss her so much...

Thanks! We really don't know what she is. One of my co-workers heard her meowing from our loading dock when she was 4 months old, and somehow she found her way home with me. She's got quite a bit of a mane, and her tail is squirrel-ish. And she still hasn't shut up...

A recent picture of Hamlet's whiskers.

Oh, wow!!! I am in love!!

Is he wearing a sweater? Or does he turn gray at the shoulders?

92> No, just a strange angle for the photo. He's standing on top of the grayish cat condo and stretching his face up for a kiss. If you look close you can see a little bit of paw showing, and that's his tail sticking up between his ears.

91> He's a lovebug, so right back atcha!

That's our fat boy, Felix, stalking us while we're at the breakfast table...thinks we cannot see him behind the flower pot:

Here is another one of him "cooling his belly" while it was 40 Celsius inside"

Wow - Felix has the most beautiful eyes, and is a very striking looking cat. He looks quite brown in the first picture, but more grey in the second.

>96 J_ipsen: His eyes are incredible! Gorgeous!

But I honestly don't think I have ever seen a cat that was not beautiful - including my cat that had one leg and his tail amputated.

.>97 NorthernStar: He's definitely grey. It must be the sun reflection from the yellow wall that make him look brown. This is when we got him. He was just 3 weeks old (we rescued him from a terrible shop):

#99,

3 weeks is awful young. Did you have to feed him with a bottle? And his psychological development?

>100 guido47: The seller told us he was 6 weeks. He was in one of 20 cages next to (and between) dogs, rabbits and other animals (his mother was sold earlier). We just couldn't leave him there. The vet told us the next days that he could not be older than 3 weeks.

In the first days I "spoon fed" him some cat food that we soaked in warm water. When we woke up the next day he had emptied the whole bowl....and he never stopped eating afterwards

Hi #98,

I agree with you re. beauty.

But I would like to share a story on perception.

My 'best friend' is/was a Rural type. I lived on his 10 acre "farmlet" for about a year. Well he had 3 dogs and a Cat.
And geese and chooks and peacocks and...

That poor old moggie was about 15 yo. and hadn't been petted for many, many a year. He had "squamous epithial cancer of the lips" and dribbled badly and NO ONE wanted to touch the poor beaste. His fur was wet and...and...

Well I petted it, put it on my lap (dribble and all) and got the loudest PURRS and love I had ever got. The puss was starved for love.

That was the same cat, I had mentioned in another tale, "...walking past the 3 dogs and when he went out of sight doing the equivalent of 'phew, survived that one' "

Guido.

#99

OMG! So CUTE!

One of the my cats from the past was found literally in the middle of the road!. Our warrant guys were out on I-985 and an old lady ahead of them slammed her brakes on and stopped in the middle of the interstate! The guys got out, found the kitten under her car, and had to crawl under it to get him (she refused to move until they had rescued the kitty, and yes traffic came to a stop on all the northbound lanes). These two big, tough guys brought the kitty back with them, and I ended up taking him home, named him George, found out from the vet he was about 4 - 5 weeks old, and fed him on scrambled eggs and baby cereal until he could eat soft cat food.

>102 guido47: Guido By the way, what is a chook?

I think chooks are chickens. Right?

"Chooks" are a cross between an EMU and a chicken.

Sorry about that, you know that Aussies "have to" exaggerate.

A chook is just a chicken/hen. Not usually used for a rooster.
See, we males have to be special :-)

Although thinking about it, since there was usually only one rooster and the rest were hens...

I wonder what happened to the other male "chooks"?

ETA. coq au vin?

Normally they only keep one rooster to prevent fighting...the others loose their balls early and are called "capon". They are quite delicious: the meat is not as fatty as a chicken but moist and meaty.

Felix is gorgeous! Lovely eyes. I remember the pictures you posted when you first got him - nice to see one of his baby pictures again :) He's really grown up to be a handsome cat.

I love these heart warming stories about tiny kittens. It makes me mad though that they separate them from their mother so very young and then mislead you about how old they are. Pet shops need to be more ethical.

>102 guido47:

Awww, guido47, your story brought tears to my eyes!

Here is my previous cat, Marbles. She was the best cat ever!! (obviously biased!)
She lived a long and happy life, and we lost her in 2011.
She was rescued as a kitten off the street. She was pretty small (about 10lbs), but looked like a Maine Coon. She was very personable.

I caught her here having a bath. I could pretend I'm good at cat photography, but I just got lucky with this shot.

What a beautiful girl.

#112: Beautiful kitty. Sorry for your loss.

>112 al.vick: My sympathy to you. It's so hard to lose a member of the family.

>107 guido47: guido How about "chook" au vin?

Our cat Isis was less than 9lbs when we got her, but now she is about 10lbs. She is working on it

This is Coco, she's a gen1 snowshoe (mum's a full showshoe & dad's a siamese - unfortunately she doesnt have the snowshoe markings, but she carries them so can still be part of the breeding program) - she's not mine, but I was visiting the breeder to take pics for her & I just love this one so had to share :)

Adorable!!

Illyria (left) and Quigley (right). According to the vet Quigley is supposed to be mostly snowshoe.

My Rory is a snowshoe. I thought it was just a Siamese with some mongrel genes. There are tons of them around here. The Humane Society gets a few every month. Had no idea there was an actual breeding program for them.

I finally got some of my more recent photos transferred to my computer. Funny that I hadn't gotten around to posting them here.

Here's our sweetie pie emerging from hiding:


And here she is relaxing on the back of the couch:

^Lovely girl!

So pretty!

Lovely cats, and I also enjoyed the tails. ;)

We have four strays right now. The most recent arrival is an underweight black cat...when he first showed up for feedings, he was so skinny that at first his head seemed way too big for his body.

As he would not let me near him, I had to trap him in order to have him neutered, plus he was sneezing frequently and I wanted him checked out. He was taken to the spay clinic the next morning.

After I got home from work, I found out that he was FIV positive, but due to an error, he was sent home: the clinic usually euthanizes any cat found to be carrying FIV.

So after talking with knowledgeable people, we did not take Blackie back, but allowed him to continue living here. FIV is passed on through mating or fighting, and as he was now neutered, the odds were against him infecting others.

Now comes the bittersweet part of the story...

...one day I cautiously stroked Blackie, and he responded by becoming extremely affectionate and purring. He now tries to follow me into the house, and never fails to rub my legs when I go outside. Conclusion? Blackie KNEW about being a house cat, and the joys of being scratched and petted by a human...so he belonged to someone at some point, but was so scared of us at the beginning that he would not let us near.

What happened? Did his owner die? Did he get lost?

And what he must have gone through in order to be so afraid of the people who were feeding him...

Blackie doesn't have a lot of time left, he frequently coughs and sneezes: he usually has dried mucus on his face (which I try to clean from time to time), but he appears to be happy that he has someone to feed him and pet him. I'm glad for the opportunity to give him the love he went without for a long time.

Thank you for taking care of Blackie!

Are you sure he doesn't have much time left? We have a cat we just discovered is FIV positive (our cats are all indoors so he's probably had it for years from his outdoor days, and we got a false negative at the time). While a respiratory infection can knock him down quickly, FIV isn't like human HIV -- just means they need attention more quickly when they get a cold.

Another cat of ours had chronic respiratory infection -- you wouldn't believe the sneezing that covered our walls and windows! -- and he lived to be 14 before he died of cancer.

Anyway, it's clear Blackie is happy to have you. I wish you and him the best!!!!!

Thank you, @amysisson.

On a positive note, Blackie eats more than any other cat I feed, and has filled out some. I've been feeding him some canned food on the sly, when the other cats aren't around...he loves it!

fuzzi, I had a wonderful cat named Socks that was diagnosed in '03 with FIV, and he continued to stay so very healthy! When I moved to another state in '08, he got in a snit and disappeared. Finally, gave up searching after one of the neighbors reported seeing him living at a house in an other neighborhood.

Hang in there with Blackie. I'm willing to guess he will be in the pink of health for years to come. I wouldn't hesitate to adopt another FIV+ cat. Best of luck to you both.

fuzzi-

Sorry to hear the bad news about Blackie. But glad that he has someone to take loving care of him.

Here's a fang photo of Astrid:



And a semi-artsy (actually taken with my phone) pic of her sister Ilsa:

Ahh....that's one of my favorite behaviors...a fangy yawn!
Don't know how you managed to get such a wonderful picture, but it is great!
I like the picture of Isla on "her" chair too.

I love the picture of Ilsa too! It is monochromatic, and worthy of its own frame.

How did you get that great shot of Astrid? I sometimes get a pic of my kitty when she's yawning but never so close-up and clear!

I saw that she was sleeping on the corner of the table, and came over to be near her. Minutes later she woke up, and I stuck my camera lens in her face. Luckily, she yawned about 3 times, and I managed to have autofocus on. So, mostly luck and seizing opportunities.

Beautiful! Love the yawn.

Was playing with my camera the other night taking close ups of Taj & Tilly, here are my faves:

My gorgeous Taji boy:



My pretty Tilly girl:



Tilly was a bit over the camera being pointed at her by that last shot - can you tell? lol :)

Yep, that's the "I am the monster" stare. ;-) Gorgeous pictures, though!

k4k

>135 Seanie:
Yes, stunning photos of beautiful cats!

Very nice photos! My favorite is the third one, of Tiily looking to the left!

Thanx Guys :)

I think my fave is the first one, I just LOVE the mid point on their noses where the hair all kinda meets from different directions & I think that one highlights it oh so nicely :)

I think these pics show their purrsonalities a bit too, Taji's not the cleverest but oh so full of love & Tilly's much more in control & is a very determined girl, she has a much less innocent look on her face than Taji, lol :)

What beautiful eyes!

Oh, hey, I've gotten that look before.
"If that thing flashes in my face one more time, you'll be sporting racing stripes..."

LOLOL @gilroy!

I can't decide between the first and the third. Gorgeous!

Taji does have a sweet innocent look, that's so true. Whereas Tilly looks -- dangerous. Especially in the last pic.

Seanie, they are absolutely gorgeous!

This here is Dexter. He doesn't like being photographed, so I have very few good pictures of him. I really love this one, though, even though it's taken with my crappy camera phone.

He is such a fine looking fellow!

Some years ago we had a black cat with a white spot on the neck named Dexter. I think his fur was shorter though and he had a stand-offish personality much like my Mom's Siamese did.

Dexter looks like he can talk. I am imagining he has just ordered dinner.

Dexter is adorable.

Don't worry about the quality of the photo: sometimes the blurry photo captures something that the perfectly-focused snapshot misses!

I was wondering what high class establishment served him in that dapper tux of his. :>

Dexter reminds me of our black and white named Alexander. Though mine is a camera hog.

Awwww such gorgeous kitties here!


This was an ex's cat ("Kitty"), she was beautiful! And she wasn't really as annoyed as she looks, hahaha! More like, errr what're ya doin?? :P

All of her, but with a crummy camera!

This darling was also his, that he'd just taken in. I believe some woman had brought her into the petstore he worked at, so he just took her home. They were both so sweet!


This was my Charlie, the biggest lovebug you'd ever find! All he ever wanted was snuggles & pets!


And this was my pretty girl Haku (we didn't name her (or Charlie), and just guessed the spelling), we took her in because one of my dad's drivers brought her to the office for one of the receptionists, and at the end of the day she was like, No I don't want it, so the jackass was just going to throw her on the streets of Chicago! >_< So my dad was like Uh NO! and brought her home, and it was a Friday, and by the time Monday came around when my mom wanted to bring her to a shelter I was not about to let her leave! So she made #5 in the house then. And she was so skinny and straggly, her tail literally looked like something out of a cartoon where the cat has single little lines coming off it! We plumped her right up, as you can see ;D and her tail was full and beautiful!


This is my former baby, Quester. She lives with my mom still, back in the States. :)

And that's all I've got on the computer. There were four others. :)

Rory, asleep on my lap.

Thanks to you both for the wonderful pix and memories!

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Felix in full christmas decoration. When I took the photo he was still in shock that I DARED to put this around his neck

Awww at 152 & 153.

An a guffaw at 154, a cat with an expression that seems to indicate the opinion of the neck bow...LOLOL...

Any current kitties, @PolymathicMonkey?

>157 by @fuzzi, Not allowed pets in our apartment :( First time I've ever been living w/o a cat, or any pets! I hate it! lol. We could probably get away with something small in a cage/tank, but this apartment has the worst insulation ever so I'd worry any little caged critter would be too cold in winter & too hot in summer. I'm dying to move but we've yet to find any suitable apartment!

Well, this isn't my cat, but I would love to have a cat even half as friendly some day. He lives next door to the house my father grew up in, in Montana.

From the cat shelter, with my 'new' camera:

Christmas time is always a great time for cats...soo many empty boxes everywhere...

Hahahahaha best photo of your cat yet!

(161) I love that expression!

Speaking of expressions...


Java does not look amused...

It's so hard to take a picture of black cats that does not look utterly demonic! I have dear sweet Samantha and she always looks scary in her pictures.

Do you have the "red eye" adjustment set on your camera?

Of course, in my opinion, the best way to 'click'
black/dark cats is in natural light.

Not that my Lizzy ever ventures out into 'natural light' :-) Totally indoors.

Kitten doesn't look demonic in my profile picture:



That was done at night because I had just opened the camera package and had to test it. Of its own accord it flashed. It looks to me like a portrait.

Robert

Very nice, Robert. Her coloring is like our kitten Buzz.

@guido47, yes, but it's a 'new to me' camera and I'm learning. I took that closeup of Java as he was lying next to me on the bed.

I kind of liked the effect...

(167) Kitten looks like my 'Sam', of my childhood.

Awesome pictures, of awesome Cats
I'll post some when I get the "meow" too figured out.

Yes I speak cat, and it gets me in trouble tooo.

Loving the pictures of the cats, but can anyone tell me where to go on this site to learn how to insert an image into a post?

There are a number of places on LibraryThing where such things are explained, and you can find a bunch of links on my profile. This thread has great respect among users. The part about pictures starts here.

Have fun,

Robert

Mr.Durick
I followed the link(?)
And tried to understand the content, there where to many choices.
What was said about properties, might be the path to follow,
But it's been a very long day, so I'm going to hug my kat. and call it a night. :)
Thank you for the help Robert.

"C:\Users\Wine Man O\Pictures\2010-11-27 HP Digital (Mom)\HP Digital (Mom) 610.JPG"

Amy, taken on the weekend:

Love the coloring!

Finally got a couple I am almost pleased with

MAX



Lizzy, gasp, OUTSIDE!

Max looks like he's smiling, like the Mona Lisa!

Lizzy looks like she's shocked that she just kicked the flower.

I love Lizzy's colouring! Max looks almost angelic :)

Great pic of Max. He looks so serene.

Lizzy is looking great. I trust she is feeling better?

Managed to get a decent picture of my sweetie doing her "gargoyle" number. It's just a little more blurry than I'd like under ideal circumstances, but this is still pretty good for something practically overhead without getting on the floor myself.

Ooh, cute!

And very artistic.

Thanks!

And of course she knows she's cute. It's how she trained us. :)

Love her coloring, so unusual. And all our housecats know they're cute; it's their currency in our homes and why we forgive them for everything!

She almost has the expression of "What are you doing?"

Very beautiful cat.

I believe she is a 'dilute calico', so pretty!

Pretty girl!!! And, yes, she is cute!

^176 tardis --- gorgeous cat and gorgeous photo! The colors are so rich.

^178 guido47 --- I'm a softie for tuxedo cat shots, obviously. :-) And Lizzie's color -- what a coat!

^184 AnnaClaire -- love it! Cats do love to hang off edges, don't they? :-)

Strange, #191, Inside, now, all I see is a dark blob on top of a darker blob, on my knee.
I only noticed her (Lizzy's) colours when she was out doors, in full sunlight, after all you peoples mentioned it.

You are quite right, she does have striking colours.

Never noticed them before :-) in almost 10 years.

I guess I love her for her personality rather than her beauty. HAH.

ETA. I must get a pic. of MAX to show off, not just his "white bib", but also his Magnificant "white boots & socks". And his mixed black and pink "paw pads".

But as you know, geting those sort of pictures 'aint easy.

This is a shot I particularly like of Macduff:

my other cat, Angus, is black and hard to get good pictures of

>193 NorthernStar:
Nice!

Tabbies are photogenic, imho.

193 - oh, that's lovely!

Astrid

197 - beautiful pose - I love the leg hanging down and that serious gaze!

She seems to be calmly deciding whether or not to use her magical powers.

I would say languid with purpose.
I know, I know, an oxymoron, but we are talking about Cats!

ETA. A comma.

I can see this in the expression:
"What birdie? I already watch the yard birdies. There is none with that box. I'll swat it ... maybe."