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Friday, December 26, 2008

Our Christmas Kitty

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I want to thank everyone for the wonderful Christmas wishes. We had an amazing Christmas here and Santa was very good to us. The best part was being together to enjoy it as a family.

This was shot Christmas morning as we unwrapped our gifts. Missy LOVES Christmas. The bows are her favorite part of the whole thing. She made out really well this year too. Santa Paws brought her a new toy and a wonderful new bed that is kind of like a fleece lined sack that she can crawl into and curl up. She LOVES it! In this photo she is looking adoringly at her boy, Rob.

NIKON D700
Nikkor 50mm f1.4
1/250 second
F/1.4
ISO 1000
50 mm

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Labels: 50mm f1.4, cat, Christmas, D700

posted by Laurie at 12:00 AM

33 Comments:

Anonymous kurt said...

Lovely image, laurie. Nice to hear you and your family (of course including Missy) had a great Christmas.

2:36 AM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous Claus Petersen said...

It looks very satisfied and content this little cat!

3:42 AM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous Bo said...

Looks like one contented Christmas cat...

5:13 AM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous olivier said...

Superbe portrait !
Merry Crhristmas ;o)

5:15 AM, December 26, 2008  
Blogger Robin said...

beautiful composition of the cat with the blurred lights in the background, i love it!

8:48 AM, December 26, 2008  
Blogger Mary Brooks Brown said...

What a beatiful kitty!! I can't wait to go through my kitty pics!

9:06 AM, December 26, 2008  
Blogger PhotoSam said...

liking the capture with the backdrop... as has already been said, the picture of the contented kitty is very christmassy

9:41 AM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous don said...

This is a beautiful shot of Missy. I really like the out-of-focus lights behind too. Fine image.

11:08 AM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous Natalie | everyday-wonders.com said...

She is gorgeous.. and the bokeh is beautiful ..:)
What kind of cat is she?

12:06 PM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous NANNE said...

It was a wonderful celebration and I hope you have/had wonderful days too!

greeting,

NANNE from FRIESLAND

12:57 PM, December 26, 2008  
OpenID bookbabie said...

Oh she's beautiful. Our cat Garfield, and dog Nikki, used to love Christmas morning too and came to expect that their stockings would be filled! We were always a little surprised that they remembered from year to year and luckily Santa never forgot them:)

1:34 PM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous Olivier Jules said...

amazing bokeh!

2:00 PM, December 26, 2008  
Blogger photowannabe said...

Love this portrait. That is one happy, contented kitty.

I'm glad you had a great Christmas, we did too. Yes, family makes it worthwile.

3:58 PM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous Laurie said...

@Natalie...She is the spoiled kind!!! Actually she is a mixed Siamese. She was a rescue adoption. From what I understand her mom was an orange Tabby feral or stray and here dad a Siamese. She is every bit the spoiled princess in this house.

5:36 PM, December 26, 2008  
Blogger Mary said...

Merry Christmas, Laurie! I love how soft her fur looks in this, and the Christmas bokeh going on behind. :)

5:53 PM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous beth said...

Sweet portrait. She looks quite pleased with everything. Love the shallow dof.

11:15 PM, December 26, 2008  
Blogger Snapshutter said...

What a lovely photo and great bokeh.

11:36 PM, December 26, 2008  
Anonymous Mindy said...

She's looking quite dignified to me. Probably satisfied she got all you humans to give her everything she wanted. Glad you all had a merry xmas.

1:23 AM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous eric said...

superb cat's portrait, with the lights behind it is superb !!!

7:03 AM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous ceanothe said...

Portrait de prince ou princesse ?

8:11 AM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous DrAW! said...

merry Christmas Laurie!

here's to an even better year next year!

8:51 AM, December 27, 2008  
Blogger Michele said...

stunning portrait - she does look happy

11:25 AM, December 27, 2008  
Blogger www.photo-effe.com said...

great shot I like the diffused light

12:13 PM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous Mohammadreza said...

great framing with nice DOF ...

1:30 PM, December 27, 2008  
Blogger n41r said...

pretty cool cat.. :D merry christmas! :)

1:51 PM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous John Maslowski said...

Lovely picture of this adorable cat Laurie. Like how clean this scene is and the great DOF for the background.

2:22 PM, December 27, 2008  
Blogger sonia a. mascaro said...

Very beautiful photo!

I wish to you and yours a Wonderful New Year!

2:52 PM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous Arjan - PlasticDaisy said...

Wonderful shot! I love how those lights in the background came out! :)

4:06 PM, December 27, 2008  
Blogger eph2810 said...

Wow, Laurie - that is an amazing shot. I love how the background is so exquisite - thank you so much for sharing this wonderful shot.

I am glad that you had a marvelous Christmas.

6:47 PM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous Andy said...

What a cute cat! Looks like she had a Purrrfect Christmas :)

7:05 PM, December 27, 2008  
Anonymous Leila said...

Cats seams perfectly connected to Christmas time! And yours is so nice...

5:24 AM, December 29, 2008  
Anonymous Suby and Sinem said...

Laurie, this is such a lovely image :) Wish you guys a lovely holiday Season :)

8:40 AM, December 29, 2008  
Anonymous Cerstin said...

Missy lies majestically on her place.
Wonderful colored bokeh.

4:02 PM, December 31, 2008  

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