Category: Zoë

christmas caterday

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A Christmas Caturday is a special Christmas Day and a special Caturday. So in that spirit I present a series of cat photos (along with one of Annie the Doodle) to help celebrate the Christmas season. The first photo in the sequence is Luke in his usual morning kitchen location, with our Christmas tree in back and out of focus. And his classic look…

Danï with all her toes pulled in and looking fabulous.

Litter sister Zoë keeping eyes out for lizards.

One more of Luke looking coy.


Last, but by no means least, Annie looks around to keep up with a house full of cats.

Except for the first photo, which was taken with the Panasonic Leica 1.4/25mm, all others were taken with my Christmas present to me, a heavily-discounted-because-it’s-refurbished Olympus M.Zuiko 1.8/75mm prime. I got it because it’s my little gift to me for a long year, and because refurbished it was less than half the prince of the 1.2/45mm PRO, making it a lot more affordable.

As far as I can tell so far it’s an outstanding lens even wide open at f/1.8. At a 150mm equivalent it allows me more distance between the animals and myself, helping to better catch them photographically. I used to be a heavy user of 135mm film lenses from Minolta and then Olympus, so working with this lens isn’t a challenge at all in spite of a number of 75mm lens reviews.

The body on all these was the Pen F.

caturday — let napping kitties lie

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The weather is getting cooler in central Florida, with the daytime highs in the 70°s and the evenings down in the 50°s and upper 40°s. Combine those cool temperatures with Nick running loose with the girls, and they are doing more napping these days than they have up until now. Sometimes they sleep with their heads up, as Zoë shows us here.

Other times they curl up within themselves, such as Danï illustrates above. Being a polydactyl with the most toes,Danï shows plenty of toe beans while she sleeps.

Being sisters from the same litter, they are still staying close to each other, even at this point in their lives. They were less than three feet from each other when these were taken.