Caturday: Cat and Girl

[nanila]

Humuhumu has been attempting to learn the art of sneaking up on Telstar.








She also enjoys taking the lens cap on and off my dSLR. My plan is to teach her to use it as soon as she can hold it, so I don’t want her to be afraid of it or think that she shouldn’t touch it. This could backfire on me horribly, but I'm willing to take the risk.

Comments

[soliano]

Adorable, although in the last one she almost could be a little Scotsman(woman - do they wear kilts?)

[nanila]

I don't think the women do, traditionally, but as she's neither Scottish nor traditional, I reckon she can if she likes!

[ankaret]

Awwww! My father took so many pictures of me examining lens caps when I was about that size, so that looks very familiar. She's adorable.

[nanila]

I think being allowed access to things is key to developing an interest in them. Time will tell if I'm right, I suppose!

[weaverbird]

So much adorableness!

[nanila]

I'm particularly fond of the last one. She looks so gleeful.

[weaverbird]

Yep, that is one happy little girl!

[ironed_orchid]

She is so stealthy.

I like the idea of letting her use and grow used to your camera.

[nanila]

Oh yes, very sneaky. Almost as much as he was when he tried to steal her cot last night. At first she was amused, but when it became clear he didn't intend to budge, she let out quite a yowl, and right in his face.

[ironed_orchid]

Cat vs. Girl

Girl 2. Cat 0.

[marahmarie]

You have the cutest baby ever.

[nanila]

Aw, thank you. She's certainly in the running for baldest, at least among her cohort. :P

Congratulations, you've been randomly picked to...

[marahmarie]

Oh wow, just got this reply in my DW inbox. First comment from an outside journal to ever land in there (thus my comment title); must be the latest code push brought the change (?).

And you're welcome. :)

[pbristow]

I approve of the "let her touch the camera plan", with one proviso: Make sure you get as much photography done as you can with it, before she breaks it! =:o}

Alternatively, try switching to a cheaper/simpler camera for a while (and hiding the pricey one completely, until further notice), and see if that one interests her just as much. *THEN* you can see, later on, if she recognises the beloved SLR when it reappears six months/a year or so later.

How much this plan appeals to you will probably depend on your planned/probable budget for the next camera you (have to) buy... =;o}

[pbristow]

Addendum: Speaking for myself, not being allowed to touch my grandads's cine projector didn't make me any the less fascinated with it, and the way that those tiny frames of film juddering through the projector turned into movement on a big screen. If anything, more! (While the rest of the family were watching glimpses of past holidays on the screen, I was more often gazing at the film wind through the projector, figuring out the ratios of the speed of rotation of the feed-out and take-up spools based on what the radiuses/radii of the "pancakes" currently were...)

However, this was tied with being allowed to read Mum's "Great Universal" mail-order catalogues, in which I would wear out the pages on cine cameras and projectors, endlessly fantasising about which one *I* would buy when I was grown up enough to have money! =:o} (I did a similar thing later iwth a brochure Dad brought home on Philips tape recorders.)

And when we finally picked up an old "Standard 8" projector in a jumble sale, it very clearly became clear that it wasn't the family's it was *MINE*. ANd when I went to buy a film to watch on it from the local camera shop, it didn't bother me particularly that they'd run out of Laurel and Hardy and I had to buy Chaplin, 'cos the important thing was it was *my* film, that I could do whatever I liked with... Unlike the family films, that remained sacred and untouchable for several more years.

P.S. Your posts inspire the *bestest* memories! =:o}