The Moving Cat picture

Do you know those pictures of beautiful homes with a cat that’s moving through the picture (a bit like this one here)? Every cat owner knows that the one thing that is not feasable with cats is managing them. Those people know too that shooting a picture of a cat on the move at the right moment at the right place is sheer luck.

I tried to do it.

Molly was dozing a bit in our upstairs hallway and I sat on my knees on the other side, trying to make a picture. But as you know, where I am, Molly is, so by the time my knees hit the ground she was already next to me on the ground, meowing and purring (just doing her Molly thing).

I put her back on her place in the hallway, petting her, trying to get her to go to sleep again, just to make that one picture.
In the end I think it’s easier to stage a moonlanding than to try to stage a picture with Molly in it.

But finally, after a couple of staging-attempts, I was fast enough to run back to my camera and shoot this photo, just before Molly reached me.

Like I said, sheer luck!