I can remember these gorgeous kittens being photographed by Helmi at the Oklahoma cat show in (I think) 2009. I was asked to guard over them until it was time to photograph them. There were many more than two. They were all in a cage. Helmi and Ken had hoped to get a really fantastic …
I won’t try and simply duplicate the breed standard of a cat association – no point. The first thing I have done is to include one of Helmi Flick’s fabulous photographs. I really like discussions about breed standards when there is an image of the breed in question in front of me. It is one …
Have you – living in the West – ever visited Chinese websites such as Weibo? It’s worth doing. It is like going to the Moon or Mars. It is a different world and difficult to fathom. You can translate the website but the translation is poor. This adds to the strangeness of the experience. It …
A taste of Weibo.com – Domestic Piglet Cat Child Read More »
A photograph titled ‘Ballerina’ by Kazutoshi Ono, Japan, was award 2nd place in the Sony World Photography awards. I am unsure but I believe this means that Kazutoshi came 2nd in Japan. It is a fine cat photography. I have taken an extreme liberty in publishing his excellent photograph here. If there is an objection, …
‘Ballerina cat’ features in the Sony World Photography national winners Read More »
I wanted to build a page on lion pictures. But how to do it a bit differently and usefully was the question. Well, I have chosen from the forty or so Flickr photographs of lions that are available for publication under a creative commons license (Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic) and presented the best 15 …
Lion pictures – plus a map showing where they were taken Read More »
This is a wonderful photograph by Richard Spencer for The Times and it is published here via Getty images and Narcisco Contreas/Anadolu Agencies. I hope that they allow me to publish the photograph on my website. I would claim fair use but I am in their hands. These three indomitable women and their two cats …
Wonderful photo showing the indomitable spirit of Ukrainian women and their cats Read More »
There are so many pictures of cats and dogs being cuddled and loved by Ukraine army personnel that a wise person has created a Twitter account to show them off. It’s doing very well with about 15.2k followers at the moment. That’s good in a very short timeframe. And it is no surprise to me …
Ukraine army cats and dogs – animal therapy and sad abandonment Read More »
This unusual photograph of feral and stray cats supplied and posted by Purrfect Hearts Cat Rescue on Facebook caught my eye. Purrfect Hearts is a cat rescue and adoption group in Wilson, NC run entirely by volunteers. They rely solely on donations from the community. You can see the family connections in the cats with …
This little lion cub must have heard the remotely controlled camera whirring which prompted this reaction. Apparently the cub spent five minutes squaring up to the camera in the Masai Mara reserve, Kenya. To be frank, I am not entirely sure that the photograph was taken at the Masai Mara reserve but I believe that …
Picture of a lion cub snarling at a remotely operated camera Read More »
A tabby cat looks like a reptile when lying on old mattress. Yes, it is not a couch to humans but it is to this cat. A nice observation and a clever photo. There is not much to say. It is a bit of fun. Funny how cats seek out a crappy old mattress rather …
Marcel Heijnen has produced a beautiful photo book of the shop cats of China. I can appreciate good photography. These photographs have quite a subdued, passive and painterly appearance. The cats are often static and quite decorative. The people seem frozen in time. The interiors of the shops are intricate and complicated. Shopkeepers form part …
Pictures of the Shop Cats of China by Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen Read More »
I like the texture of the image and the way the fur flows as if blown by a gust of wind. The lighting is very nice. Espen did a bit of photo-editing to achieve this tonal quality. The background has been shaded. I expect he used Adobe Lightroom which is the photo-editing software of choice …
Excellent black-and-white photograph of a long-haired cat Read More »
This is a photograph by Armand Tamboly of a domestic cat. The title on Saatchi Art is ‘Persian cat’. The description of the photograph tells us that it was taken ‘from a Maine Coon cat in a studio…’. I have the following observations. This looks more like a drawing than a photograph which makes it …
Photograph of a Maine Coon cat which looks like a drawing Read More »
This is a nice, historical picture of a young girl holding her cat while standing in a cobbled courtyard. Her mother is at the front door proudly looking on. The girl is very happy to show off her cat to the photographer. Her cat is somewhat bemused and unsettled. This is partly because the photographer …
I’ve decided that this cat is a black tortoiseshell-and-white because there’s a very small amount of white in the coat. Perhaps we could just say that this interesting looking Oriental Shorthair is a tortoiseshell cat. You can see her being wrangled (handled and manoeuvred) by Ken Flick who is the husband of Helmi Flick, the …
Black tortoiseshell-and-white Oriental Shorthair being photographed Read More »
