John, thank you for your description of your portrait subjects. I can say that I am not surprised. There must have been something between you and the cats that can be (somehow) captured using a camera. I thought Anthony and Alex were looking distant, if that is a correct word in this setting. For Eve, I was sure it would be my cat if I were to choose one based only on these images. Ella looked beautiful but for some reason (or for no reason at all) we could not make a connection. And, Spot was my next candidate for a serious relationship. :)
I have recently lost my friend Pebble (a pointer, see: https://celasun.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/communication/ and https://celasun.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/cakil-ve-ben/ ) . My wife and I are now looking for one or two friends (perhaps, a cat and a dog) to live with us. This probably makes my antenna more sensitive these days. Have a nice time with all those companions. Bulent --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun John Francis <[email protected]>, 27 Ağu 2018 Pzt, 01:37 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 09:03:37AM +0300, Bulent Celasun wrote: > > What a show! > > I wonder if the images reflect their personalities fairly. > > Some soft, some curious some tough... > > That's a tough question - I know the cats too well, so I see > what I expect to see. I'll give you a potted biography for > each of them, and see if that matches your impressions. > > Anthony is an old cat (16). He is one of a litter of 4 kittens > that we fostered. Unfortunately they were almost three months > old when we got them, and had been living a semi-feral life. > By that age they are pretty much set in their ways. > When he was a kitten he was always hiding somewhere - behind > a box, in between the cushions on the sofa, under a chair, ... > For most of his life he didn't really interact much with us. > In the last year or so, though, he's been having some digestive > issues, and needs to be fed a special diet. He's got used to > coming up and demanding food, and seems to have forgotten that > people were scary - he will lie beside me on the bed, and has > even settled down on my lap on a few occasions. He still has > more than a few doubts about my wife, though. > > Alex is my wife's cat. He will allow me to stroke him, but > makes it very clear that this is a poor substitute for the > real thing. He spends most of the day asleep waiting for my > wife to come home so he can leap up on her desk to greet her. > He also supervises her when she gets up every morning. > > Eve was a cat we didn't plan for. I had just taken one of > Anthony's siblings to the local humane society for her last > trip - while there wasn't anything medically wrong with her > she'd stopped eating, had difficulty walking, etc. She'd > decided she had come to the end of her time, and was just > waiting for the inevitable. Rather than prolong her pain > and suffering I gave her a peaceful ending. Even so it's > a hard thing to do, so I sat for a while in the cat area > before driving home. There were only a couple of cats out > at the time, and I was told that one of them wasn't really > sociable - she hardly interacted with any of the volunteers. > The cat, however, obviously had othe plans. Almost as soon > as I sat down she leaped up onto the bench beside me, then > head-butted my arm out of the way to climb onto my lap. > Apparently she had decided she was going home with me. > Other than that she's a fairly typical tortie - she can > go in a trice from accepting all the attention you can > give her to biting the hand that dares to disturb her fur. > And what fur it is! Long and silky, but maintenance free! > > Ella was a cat returned to a local shelter when her owner > went off to college. She's taken a while to accept us as her > new staff. Unfortunately she seeks a cure for her insecurity > in the food bowl, and could really do with losing some weight. > But with multiple other cats in the household (who all want > to eat on different schedules) there's always food available. > Sadly, her fur isn't maintenance free, so we do sometimes > have to make her suffer the indignity of being brushed. > > Spot was one of the fosters we had last year (a mother and > her five kittens). The mother was, unusually, a ginger tabby. > (that's far more common in males than in females). All of > her kittens were boys, and all of them were ginger tabbies. > The mother was semi-feral (she eventually got a placement > as a barn cat), so even though they were used to the presence > of humans (we got them when they were a couple of days old) > they weren't particularly demonstrative, and were always a > little withdrawn when interacting with people. > Spot (named after Data's cat on Star Trek) didn't originally > have that name. We were working on names for the kittens, > and had got as far as "ginger" for the one that didn't have > Any white fur. One of the others was, as is typical, somewhat > smaller than the rest. At one point I referred to him as the > baby cat. That gave me an idea, and the other three were from > that moment Sporty (who became Spot), Scary & Posh. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
