nice,sharp focus. The foreground si distracting...perhaps a tighter crop would have worked here. The lighting is not particularly interesting, and the face seems a bit overexposed.
needs the brightness on the cats face/chest toned down - perhaps by tweaking the WB on your camera. Not really a macro or near-macro as you did not zoom in to a specific feature of this feline.
Ah! how did you photograph my cat! (no, seriously, he/she looks exactly like my cat).
either way, on a technical note:
for a light sorce, i'm not that fond of flashes because it makes the image a bit too harsh. and as for whether it meets the challenge or not, it may somewhat be a close-up, but not a macro in my opinion.
a nice attempt, just keep practicing.
good luck.
Pretty cat. I usually believe that in order to be considered a macro it should be larger than life. This doesn't qualify. I apologize if this is some type of miniture cat that I don't know about.
Nice shot of the cat, but there are blown highlights in the white fur and I don't see how this could be considered a macro. Still, it is a very nice pic of the cat.
I wish this were more of a close up. Looks like he's reading a book. LOL I love his wide eyed expression. The contrast and lighting is good, just zoom in a bit more.