Right now I can't drive because I've been having some
absence seizures so options for shooting a decisive moment are limited to my house and where I can get a ride to. For my first shooting session I documented my Mom clicker training our cats and some cats that we foster. It was pretty strait forward since they do it almost every day so I knew what to expect. The only difficulty I had was adapting the lighting and setting up the flash.
If you are familiar with clicker training dogs, it's the same thing only with modified tricks for cats. If you are unfamiliar with clicker training you teach an animal a series of tricks with increasing difficulty and reward them with food and a sound (the clicker). Every one always says how dogs do things just to please people and cat's will only do a trick for food. The problem with that theory is that neither of my dogs will do anything without a treat (and it had better be a good one) and one of my cats does not like treats but comes to do clicker training because she loves the sound of the clicker and likes to be told "Good kitty Annie!" The black and white cat here is only doing it for the food. For the right price he will stand on his legs and spin. For cheep food he stands, goes down and then spins.
around for an hour until I could find it. Apparently I need to work on my poorly printed map reading skills. When I finally got there there were literally only three people there besides the carnival workers. I could have gotten some pictures of the old men playing board games but I felt like it was breaking some boundary. I worked my way to Embarcadero and got some pictures of pigeons. Awesome. The highlight was a guy with a cat.
