Newsflash! Cats love the camera

With the awe factor an inevitability, photographing cats is just an outright delight.

I snapped this photo of our newest addition, named Kit (or, Kit-Kat) yesterday before heading to my mother-in-law's birthday get-together.

I find it impossible to not photograph my cats while I'm holding a camera. It's kind of like a reflex, I suppose, which I'm sure will also hold true when my child is born.

Come to think of it, it's not even only my cats I love photographing. I've had to go to the animal shelter for an assignment several times, which resulted in my returning with probably more than a hundred pictures of adorable kitties.

Photos from the animal shelter are usually pretty sad, like the pair of eye's staring through the steel bars, or a paw reaching toward the lens. It's images like those that I almost always find someone in my office has printed and pinned on their desk.

But not all images from the shelter are sad; if I recall correctly, the afore mentioned assignment at the shelter was for a story about adopting pets during the holidays, so I followed a young couple around who were interviewing for a dog.

The woman was pregnant, and I guess the dog would make a nice addition to the growing household. They wound up going home with the dog, but not before i got a picture of the man bending down for a hug with his new friend.

One of these days I'd like to spend some time photographing all aspect of the shelter (good and otherwise) for a picture story.

Until then I guess I'll remain content with all those "awe factor" pictures I take of my cats.