{"id":5459,"date":"2012-04-14T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:04:32","slug":"smile-for-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/smile-for-the-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile For The Camera…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors Note:<\/strong> When I wrote this post for a scheduled Saturday publish date, I had no idea I actually might be smiling for a camera… a camera by TV crews at a protest rally on behalf of the Loews cats who have been cruelly and inhumanely trapped from hotel premises these past couple of weeks. As I write this, I don’t know what the outcome will be, but I, along with the other devoted cat advocates who were able to take the trip to Orlando to take a stand against David Bartek and his cold-hearted actions, I pray we can make a difference for these cats. I thank all of you amazing people across the nation and the world for the overwhelming support you have given us to help spread the word against this travesty of animal rights. I will update you with details later, in the meantime, keep us and the cats in your thoughts today..<\/em>. Now, on to today’s scheduled post!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Remember when you had to hold film negatives up to a window to figure out what image number it was that you wanted to get re-printed? Nowadays you can access photo images in a split second on your phone or computer and print them instantly\u2026 Or email them\u2026 or post them on social media networks\u2026<\/p><\/div>\n

There is no doubt that I love my cats. I literally have THOUSANDS of pictures to prove that thanks to the talents of Dan and I am more than happy to share them all day long like the proud kitty parent I am. With digital photography now part of our mainstream life, we no longer have to wait for a roll of film to be finished to either drop off at our local pharmacy (which, by the way, back then, there was only one per town and not the mandatory CVS or Walgreen\u2019s you find on EVERY street corner), a Photo mat, or in the mail in a prepaid envelope from York or some other company like that to have them developed and mailed back to you.\u00a0 Some of these processes could literally take well over a week, and then you had to deal with the high probability that your film got mixed up with someone else\u2019s and you have to prove that the picture of some strange guy in ladies underwear is not really your husband\u2026. Okay, that never really happened, but you get the picture, so to speak\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When you finally did get back whatever the heck you were trying to take a picture of, at least \u00bc of the pictures would be out of focus, all of them with animals and humans would have red eyes, a handful would be of people who were only in part of the shot \u2013 i.e., you would see half of their face or it would be missing altogether. If you took a picture of something such as a person standing in front of a tree, the person would be so tiny in the image, that years later you could not possibly remember who it was. Or, who knows, maybe it was actually a picture of a dog\u2026 that was how indistinct it was.\u00a0 And at least one of the pictures\u00a0 would be of your coffee table, the ceiling, or your shoe because you accidentally hit the shutter release button before you were ready to take the actual picture. Regardless, it was still a very exciting moment when you held that precious envelope in your hands, not quite sure what would greet you when you opened it.<\/p>\n

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A typical junk drawer... Look familar?<\/p><\/div>\n

There were (and still are) those elusive rolls of film that you would find years later in a drawer. What were the pictures of? Who could possibly remember at this point and good luck getting them developed now. In my case, they were probably pictures of my second son, Joe, who definitely got the short end of the stick when it came to baby memories. I remember with Chris, my first son, every single breathe was captured on film and I wrote in his baby book like I was documenting his life\u2019s story for Wikipedia. Album after album filled with poorly taken photos.\u00a0Joe, well\u2026 I tried, but by then, l was just so darn tired running after two boys and laundry, and cooking, and well, you know what I mean. It wasn’t for lack of love, I just had been worn out by parenthood.<\/p>\n

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With just the tiniest touchup, it is amazing how much I look like Angelina Jolie.<\/p><\/div>\n

Now, in the digital age, not only can we take hundreds of pictures in a matter of minutes, we can run them through Photoshop or any number of software programs to make them all look like works of art. Red eye is a thing of the past \u2013 heck, whatever color eyes you want, you can have!\u00a0 For us cat bloggers, this is a dream come true. We write a post, grab the camera, voila, pictures to back up the story (or vice verse). My furry gang is so accustomed to the camera by now, that it is not even remotely an issue. They barely lift their heads when Dan grabs the camera and there is no fear or interest whatsoever in the black object he is pointing at them.<\/p>\n

I am using these cat pictures for everything under the sun \u2013 for my book, my blog, articles, guest posts, contests, facebook, Pinterst, and so much more.\u00a0 I have noticed an interesting trend however. Me, who used to be the inspiration for Dan\u2019s camera is all but a ghost nowadays. I am no longer the star and have taken a glaring back set to my feline family. Not that I am complaining \u2013 my days of close-up shots are long gone, but I do find that once in a while people are requesting pictures of ME WITH MY CATS. What?? Since when was it about me?!! Okay, I\u2019m game for that and ask Dan if he could help me out\u2026 what\u2019s the big deal about that?<\/p>\n

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This is Peanut looking all sweet and innocent with me as she smiles for the camera. Moments eariler, I was trying to hold her and she nearly ripped me to shreds...<\/p><\/div>\n

The big deal \u2013 those darling cats that never leave my side and practically pose for the camera for Dan act like I am picking them up for a bath when I try to have my picture taken with them. They do that thing where they stretch their body as far away as they can from you and can\u2019t wait to be let go from your inhumane and torturous grasp. Seriously? Just two seconds ago, one of them was peacefully napping on my lap and another was drowsing next to my keyboard. The rest, sprawled out on the couch without a care in the world. Jeez\u2026\u00a0 what a bunch of traitors\u2026<\/p>\n

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Look at these sweet little darlings... not a care in the world with the camera around. L to R - Peanut, Rolz, Zee on ottoman, and Zoey bathing Mia.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editors Note: When I wrote this post for a scheduled Saturday publish date, I had no idea I actually might be smiling for a camera… a camera by TV crews at a protest rally on behalf of the Loews cats who have been cruelly and inhumanely trapped from hotel premises these past couple of weeks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466,14],"tags":[330,328,1265,65,326,329,331],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feral-cats","category-general-blogging-writing","tag-blogging-2","tag-camera","tag-cats","tag-caturday","tag-loews-cats-2","tag-pictures","tag-protest-rally"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cats-on-floor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}