Pet Photography

I admit it: I love my cats, Zinni and Cali. They both just showed up as strays and we took them in. We thought we were doing them a favor, but they make our life more interesting and keep us entertained with their antics and distict personalities. I could share many stories, pictures and videos that would make me look like a crazy cat lady (and may do so in the future), but for now, I just wanted to share some of my favorite recent shots.

It was a nice spring day and I wanted to try my hand at pet photography. Yes, pet photographers exist and some actually make good money. I love animals and taking pictures, so this may turn into a future hobby/part-time career someday, but for now, I just practice on my kitties for fun. Here are the best ones (and I apologize that I am still loving the overused sepia tone...it just makes everything look better to me). :)

Cali in the grass

Nice tongue!

Can you see me now?

Zinni looking intense

And now not so intense...

Stopping to smell the flowers...before attacking them.

Link to My Yahoo! Page

Well, I was going to repost some of my favorite articles from my Yahoo! site on this blog, but haven't had the time to move all of that over here yet. So, until I do, I thought I would just give the link to my Yahoo! Contributor Network page, which has titles and descriptions of all my published work for them thus far. If you're looking for humor or recipes in particular, you can search my content on the right-hand side of that page. You can also filter it by type.

I started this blog a month ago with the intention of writing on a regular basis again, but got it in my head that I had to move all the old stuff over first before posting any new work. Since I didn't have the time to do that, I felt restricted from just freely writing any new posts, which was not my intention when starting this. So I think I need to ignore my initial plan and start over.

I just need to get writing again. I miss it and people keep asking me why I haven't been writing anything lately. I will try to get on here and do something worth reading on a semi-regular basis. We'll see how that goes. I may post favorite old pieces sporadically as I feel like it. Again, bear with me as I learn how to do this whole blog thing. I think Yahoo! will still publish photo slideshows without much hassle, so I may do that and then link them to related blogs. 

Anyway, here is the link to my other writing site: http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/80963/rita_oakleaf.html

Thanks for reading, friends!