No, I’m not talking about surviving a zombie outbreak, and no, I’m not talking about getting one up on a sibling during a clash. I’m talking about photography!
When photographing a person or animal, the one point of the face that you should focus your lens on is….you guessed it….the eyes.
There’s a reason for the popular idiom “The eyes are the windows to the soul.“ Eyes are incredibly expressive. Not just human eyes, but animal eyes as well.
I recently photographed my new kitten while my mother and I took her for a little car ride. We want her to get used to her carrier and not associate it with just going to the vet like my other cats do. While my mother ran into the grocery store for a few things, I sat in the car with the kitten. She kept peeking at me through the side of the carrier, so all I could see where here eyes. It was so cute that I couldn’t help but take a few pictures.
I’m still in the process of “kitten-proofing” the house. Our new little friend is getting tired of being confined in the basement. We let her have run of the whole basement during the day, but at night we confine her to one room. On Saturday night, we heard a thump and then heard her meowing. Come to find out, she figured out how to climb over the six-foot tall partition and escape her “bedroom”. That same evening, I put her back in the basement room and sat on the basement stairs to watch her. She jumped from a low table to the top of the partition and over. I thought we had adopted a kitten, but with that little maneuver, it seems she might be part monkey. She can jump and climb much higher than I thought she could!
Now, I’m rethinking the entire layout of the house. If she can get over a six-foot tall partition and escape the basement room we had her in, then what could she climb and jump onto once we let her upstairs? [-_-]
Looks like there’s much more cleaning/kitten-proofing to do. Wish me luck.
Until next time…
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~A.M.
Audrey May Photography 