Cat in my trunk

It's been a long time since I last blogged on my site. I have been shooting, honest! In most cases, no news is good news, but in self-promotion it's suicide. Over the past few weeks I have been shooting for the National Post, Bank of Canada and other portraits of clients, but I am not sure if I can post those photos. So... until I get clearance, here is a photo of Xiao Z in the trunk of my car.

I find backgrounds are so hard to control, either a tree is growing out of someone's head or the ground is brown and ugly. Sure you can shoot wide open and blur the background, but finding a free black seamless backdrop is pure happiness.

I was cleaning out the car and had the hatch open whereupon my cat climbed in to enjoy a new vantage point where he could keep an eye on the birds in the yard. A cloudy warm spring day gave me perfect light to catch Z in both a horizontal and vertical shot (gotta keep the editors happy).

Lesson learned: if you see a shot, take it. I would have never thought of taking a portrait in this situation, but I think it came out as one of my favorite photos of him.

Photo was shot with a borrowed 100-400mm 4.5-5.6 lens. Such a great piece of glass.