Everybody loves a kitten... -:)

[Algarve Images]

And this one is of Yoda our spanish feral kitty in play mode this afternoon.
After spending half the day trying to capture a swift darting into our pool for a drink of chlorinated water, i gave up and turned attention to something that stays still for more than a nanosecond...
Manual setting, bounced flash ISO 200, 1/250 @ 5.6 24-70mm
He has something wrong with his right eye which gives him a glazed look and i dont try to correct this anymore because he's not purrrrfect

[Thomas Radley]

Man, Gary, how do you get such great images. Is it just the patience?

[Algarve Images]

Hi Thomas,
for sure the kitten needs patience lol,
also having the camera set up correctly does help, i reeled off the first ten shots forgetting that i was inside now with a flash, but was still set up for shooting swifts outside at 9 frames a second... this seemed to irritate the kitten so it exited the building fairly rapidly. An hour or so and a few cat biscuits and squeeky toy later i got close to the shot i wanted.
It's perseverance for me because i don't have patience in abundance, add luck to the equasion and accept the fact that if anything can go wrong then it always will.......
regards,
Gary