I have taken many normal photos of my cats but very, very few IR ones. I thought it's time to start taking some so that I can appreciate their beauty in a different light.

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Micky

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Keiko

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Loki

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Willy

And here are a couple more:

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Slightly different from the 2 that were posted in Clubsnap.

This post has been edited by tomcat on Aug 1 2005, 11:37 PM

i like the last 1, got the kind of interesting look

Hi tomcat,

Nice photo's !

I rather like cats. Many years ago I had about 4 living with me; but that was quite a long time ago

Is it Willy who's eyes look so green ?

Cheers : )

I think her personality tends to show through in her photos, both normal and IR. She has this very sad look all the time and is a loner as she does not get on well with all the other cats.

But 'IR-photographically' speaking, IR pics of cats are kind of interesting too. They still look somewhat normal to a viewer, especially one who has not seen what the cats actually looked like in visible light, maybe a bit like sepia-toned, unlike trees where the leaves looked white in IR.

The one thing that do look strange in IR photos of cats is the colour of their noses. Reddish or pinkish noses tend to show up as white or whitish like in the last 2 shots and that don't exist in real life. That could come across as 'interesting' in a hard-to-pinpoint way.

Thanks, Pablo.

If you like cats like me. and don't have any at the moment, then don't start keeping or you could end up like me with so many !

The one with the 'green' eyes is not Willy but Miu Miu, his grandmother. Her eyes are not that green actually. especially in IR but I had colorised the eyes just for effects. I saw someone did that to a IR pic of her cat in dpreview and was inspired to try that out on my own shots just for fun. The original IR pics without the colorised eyes were posted in Clubsnap.

very nice beautiful cats!!! i like!!!!

not a cat person

Another 2 pics...

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Puffy

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Loki

Hi tomcat,

These are nice photo's of your cats !

I must say that I rather like cats as friends.....

They are most intelligent (generally the spell better than me too ).........

tomcat, how many of the felines do you have ?

Cheers

Hi Pablo,

I have 13 cats living with me.
I also find them to be very intelligent creatures... a lot more intelligent than most people who don't keep cats tend to give them credits for. And they can be very affectionate too.

Hi tomcat,

WoW..... 13......

You shure DO love cats !

As I have mentioned, I too love cats (only I do not have one at present... tho I did have 4 "many" years ago)

There will be so many personalities you can take photo's of I guess.

Cat's I find are very intelligent and are very close to their owner.... in ways that others don't see....
They only communicate truely with you, when there is no one else around to see it.

Cheers

That's so very true !!
Cats do have many individual personalities. Even siblings from the same litter can have personalities that are as different as day and night.
And they do seem to communicate telepathically with their eyes. I find that they seem to be looking very deeply into your soul trying to talk to you. Most of the time, it is we who are not very receptive to them unfortunately.