Weekly Photography Challenge (cat eyes)

Challenge Brief:

Photograph something through the eyes of a cat 

Rules:

1. You can submit as many pictures as you'd like, no limit.

2. Try to explore an idea, a thought, a sequence of events.

3. No tweaking please.

4. B/W or Colour are welcome

Take the challenge as an opportunity to recognize that your legs don't have to always be used as tripods...  If you're having trouble, just spend a little time watching a cat, it should help give you some ideas!

Alright.  I don't know about this weeks challenge.  I found this one really tough.  I guess it was just frustrating that I couldn't really do what I wanted and had to settle on my vision for the cat's vision...haha.(that sounds funny)

But Anyway........

First of all im not a cat lover by any stretch of the imagination.  I used to have them as pets but only outdoors.  I know a lot about cats...just as anyone would.  How they are curious, how they prowl and pounce and stalk, how they scatter sometimes and hide, how they play with something etc. But I did not want to presume that a cat sees the same way a human does....so I actually did some research on what their vision looks like.  I learned that they see better than us at night but poorer than us during daytime.  While they do see color it is much more muted and harder to decipher between shades.  I learned that their field of vision is wider than ours and that their daytime vision is sort of unfocused.....or blurry.  I also learned that their depth perception is not as good as ours is.  They basically see more through movement and hearing than they do just using their vision.  Everything looks rather flat to them unless it is moving. 

So, with all this learned and now shared with you.  I feel I was only able to "use" and execute some of the characteristics of a cat's vision that I named above.  I am somewhat limited by my camera right now.  I had some other ideas and would have done more if I had the resources I think ( i.e. perhaps using a wide angle lens etc.).  My concept was to try to convey the stalking, and pouncing movement of a cat, as they play with an object.  And then also the result of the cat's movements on the said object.   The order of this series therefore becomes important.  I hope the order of the stills in some way  conveys the way that a cat would move around as it stalks and plays with the ball of yarn.  He first stalks the object and gets closer and closer then pounces and attacks the ball, the ball then moves away from him and he pounces again.  This happens a couple times and as it does the yarn unravels and then this also becomes subject to the cat's devices, so on and so forth.  I also tried to use the capabilities and tools that I DO have to get as close as I could to the actual vision of a cat.   With that said.....I could not hit every one of those characteristics, as it is not within my camera's capabilities, nor could we tweak the photos this week with editing software.  So.....here is what I have come up with this week using the manual functions on my camera as best I could.  Hope you enjoy.