Don't come near my wrapping paper!

This is my pet cat, 'Taffy'.

Cats have many emotions and you can detect them from the positioning of their ears, dilation of eyes and eyelids, their fur, and their tail movement. They are very complexed moodswinging creatures.

This particular night, the cat was sitting being her bossy self and I was observing her playing with some wrapping paper happily.

I grabbed my camera and slowly lay on the floor along side her trying to be as non-conspiquous as I could.

The lights were dimmed with a red lighted bulb above her.

I chose not to use flash as I wanted the softness of the capture. She looked so calm, concentrating and filled with curiousity.

  (Probably wondering what I was doing on the ground).

I also wanted to avoid the flash reflection in her eye, even though there is the red-eye reducing setting for flash images, there is always some sort of reflection when the receptor is looking directly at the lens; and she was looking directly at me.

I wanted the red tint of it of the light also...

I avoided zooming in. I crawled on the ground, went close to her and used the portrait option without flash.  I tried to keep her in the center of the picture, seeing as her chubby cheeks filled up empty spaces very lovely. Without the flash option, in order for the image not to be blurry you have to keep the camera VERY still or use a tripod; but as I don't have one I just held the camera as still as I could and this is what I produced.