{"id":3314,"date":"2013-04-23T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2013-04-23T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:39:19","slug":"your-daily-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/your-daily-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Daily Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, not literally <I>daily<\/i> but I do find myself taking a lot of pics of my girls. First, because they&#8217;re always around. LOL And second, because dammit, I think they&#8217;re adorable. Plus, cats are a great way to practice photography because they move a lot, they&#8217;re quick, you have to really get a good lock on them to get the sharpness you want, etc. Which all just means I have a lot of pics of my cats that I think look nice and so I post them. Hey, it&#8217;s my blog, if I want it full of cats, well then it will be like the rest of the internet! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/stuff\/emoticons\/razz.gif\"><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3315\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mika-balcony-april13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mika-balcony-april13-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"I love getting shots of Mika on the balcony. Always get great light out there and you can see her beautiful eyes and coloring.\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mika-balcony-april13-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mika-balcony-april13-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mika-balcony-april13.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love getting shots of Mika on the balcony. Always get great light out there and you can see her beautiful eyes and coloring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3316\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gracie-balcony-april13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gracie-balcony-april13-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"The Little one, Gracie, is always harder to shoot because she just doesn&#039;t sit still for very long!\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gracie-balcony-april13-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gracie-balcony-april13-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gracie-balcony-april13.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Little one, Gracie, is always harder to shoot because she just doesn&#8217;t sit still for very long!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Come on, with faces like that how can I <I>not<\/i> take pics of them? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/stuff\/emoticons\/happy0176.gif\"> For those curious about that kind of thing, both shots were taken with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Canon-EF-S-60mm-Macro-Cameras\/dp\/B0007WK8KS\/\" target=\"_blank\">60mm f\/2.8 macro lens<\/a>. I use it normally for <a href=\"http:\/\/PhoenixFireDesigns.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">my jewelry<\/a> but I&#8217;ve recently found it good in other situations as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, not literally daily but I do find myself taking a lot of pics of my girls. First, because they&#8217;re always around. LOL And second, because dammit, I think they&#8217;re adorable. Plus, cats are a great way to practice photography because they move a lot, they&#8217;re quick, you have to really get a good lock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,15],"tags":[1604,1309,293,28,1179,1475,1091,983,986,1599,1704,1180,985],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-kitties","category-photography-and-pics","tag-cat-photography","tag-cat-photos","tag-cat-pics","tag-christmas","tag-gracie","tag-macro","tag-macro-photography","tag-mika","tag-mika-us","tag-photos-of-cats","tag-pics-of-cats","tag-tabby-cat","tag-tabby-cat-mika"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}