I think this, with some composition tweaks, could make a nice painting/drawing/still life. Such a happy cat in her basket, and it is her basket. One of the tweaks in arrangement would be to have her laying on combed fiber. Naughty kitty. But content.
Maybe some lighting and POV adjustments. The background would definitely need different elements. Hm. Sticking this one in my “potential” list.
I set the trail cam up to see who comes and drinks from my stacked fountain. I expected to see mostly cats, what I didn’t expect was how Mr Tom drinks from the dishes. He chooses to stand in one dish to drink from another. Huh? The dishes are not attached to the pots, just stacked. How he perches without tipping anything over is amazing.
But look at that magnificent tail. His winter coat is coming in, and he now lets me brush him, so he is mostly free of burrs.
I found an LED light that casts wave like forms in selectable colors. What a perfect thing to set under a ghost!
I set up one of my chicken wire ghosts and draped with with fine netting fabric. This is a basic version using my wire ghost instructions (which are currently selling like hot cakes on Etsy, wow). The ghosts in the instructions are more detailed with stylized netting, this version has no arms and uses just a long section of netting thrown over the top. I tried just setting the light under the ghost, but didn’t like that I could see it. I found a dark pot (which is actually part of a helium can that I cut off the top and painted black a while back), and placed that under the ghost with the light inside. I had to adjust the lengths of steel posts that stabilize the ghost from an X formation to parallel to accommodate the can, but it worked.
The white light is quite bright, but I think the blue color is nice.
Every time I walk in the kitchen, I turn around and see this.
They are stalking me, hoping I’ll open a can of chicken.
The summer left the grass in sad condition; the following rains perked up the native varieties we’ve been planting but showed us how much St Augustine grass was still in the mix as it died off the hardest. (That really doesn’t make me sad, I detest St Aug grass.) There is one particular healthy clump that Sophie the cat likes to “hide” behind. I didn’t get the photo of her stalking pose, but did capture the moment she thought the tuft should die.
Critters and Craft 