CK and the Art of the Photograph

Hola! As you can see by the fact that I'm not in my studio, I thought we'd do a different kind of art today. First I have a complaint about TW to get off my chest. Seems she's decided she's gonna spend more time on her own social media, meaning of course Facebook. This is not acceptable. I have tons more furrends and much more to share. I'm telling you here and now, Woman. No one cares about what you think. She better do right by this kitteh!

Many media can be considered art and photography is one of them. It is to laugh to call TW a photographer but one of the things she's done this year is join two FB photography challenges UNDER MY ACCOUNT. Both are closed groups so you have to ax to join them. I've decided to feature her our submissions to each. I may add them every week to my art post. All photos are taken with either an Olympus or Canon point and shoot. We only wish we had the Nikon in the image above but that's what Photoshop is for.

The first group is the Pet Photography Challenge. This was created by Kama Rueschenberg when the bloopers' challenge ended and some pet bloggers wanted another weekly challenge. I'm happy to see some of my cat blogging furrends participating in this challenge. Each week's challenge is either technical or compositional. So far it's been a lot of fun even though TW's entries aren't very good. Here are the works we have submitted.

Week One: Backlighting. We entered one of Chizzy too.

Week Two: Rule of Thirds

Week Three: Depth of Field

The other photography group we joined is way over our heads—the 2 Lil Owls Photography Project. Each week there's a new theme. Sounds easy but there's a catch. Most members of the group are artists or pro photographers and the photos submitted are real artsy and make use of textures and/or filters. So far TW has been using images of myself and I do admit, I get off when a professional photographer "likes" one of them.  Unlike the Pet Photography Challenge, this one isn't pet-centric although a good number of the submitted photos have been of cats. What can I say? Cats are very photogenic. We lurked the first week so we didn't post until week two.

Week Two: Shadows. I used a canvas texture, I believe.

Week Three: Something that makes you smile. My playing makes TW smile. She used an Instagram action on it. I kinda look like I'm playing in the snow rather than on Pop's bed.

Next week's theme is Sunset so it's gonna be impossible to include me in that shot since I don't think she's allowed to 'shop me in.

I'm also gonna include a piece of art since I feel guilty using this blog hop to talk about the other artsy groups. In this piece, I've constructed my image using colorful tiles.

Let me know if you'd like me to continue posting our photography along with my Caturday art. I find it more artistic than photographic. Don't be shy about joining the challenges and  posting your photography.

Hope you enjoyed my photographs which are part of the Caturday Art Blog Hop. Thanks to Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty for hosting it every week and giving me an excuse to mess around with Photoshop and some cool online apps that are so easy a cat can use them. If you'd like to see more traditional Caturday art, click the link and check out the other kitties showing their artwork this week. You'll find all kinds of art styles and one of them is bound to catch your [cat] fancy.