Simply because, I didn't have a cat wrangler this time!! I tried doing it myself!
Try placing a pencil on a book and taking 2 quick steps backwards to try and get the shot before he knocks it off. Or, worse yet, before he jumps off the table.
That's what he did most of the time -- just jumped off the table.
The pencil really wasn't all that interesting.
I'd set him on the table, slide him around to the other side of the book, shake the pencil back and forth over and over again, run back two steps, just to have him stare at me...
and jump off the table.
I only got two pictures where he actually touched the pencil and one where he was just staring at it.
The rest of the time, this was his attitude:
Thanks for all the wonderful comments!!
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I congratulate you on your first place ribbon. Capturing a black cat by itself is one thing and without a "cat Wrangler" is the hardest thing to do with a cat you did an amazing job and deserve that ribbon. I take photos of cats on the weekends for a nonprofit group and even with a "cat Wrangler" there to pose the cats it is still a little crazy with the cats jumping down or moving around and once they let go there is no telling what will happen! so I applaud you on a great photo you deserve that number one spot! =^..^=
This is the best cat photo I have seen here bar NONE. congrats excellent photo that I am sure would sell very well as poster, postcard, stock... well, you get my point.
Excellent. From experience I know black cats are hard to photograph. You did a wonderful job on this and also got a good composition in there too. Nice one.
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