“Heaven?” “Spaceship?” “Prison?”

This photo is a prime example of a decisive moment; it was taken in a split second moment where my cat Sushi was standing in front of the sunlight emitting from the window of the front door. Sushi is a very active cat and doesn’t like standing still, so a few seconds before, he wasn’t near the area, and a few seconds after, he ran away. The rule of thirds can be used here to emphasize not just Sushi, but the sunlight. What is the dominant expression? Sushi? The light? It can be both. The contrast between his fur and the light makes both aspects stand out in the neutral colored living room. It just seems like the perfect photo that I am so lucky to have been able to take because it looks like he is posing for the photo. The background is also blurred, giving it a focus and shallow depth of field.

This photo was also a decisive moment because of course, it’s Sushi, and he doesn’t like staying still. This photo was taken when we set up the automatic litter box for the first time, and Sushi went in to explore it. The way that the photo is taken to not show any of the background makes it look like he is in some kind of spaceship or alien aircraft. The green lighting inside the litter box really emphasizes that. The dominant expression could be the litter box itself with the way it is lighting up green, or it could be Sushi with the way he is being lit up by the litter box itself.

This third photo is of my other cat, Socks, staring at me through the wooden stair beams, although just by looking at it, one can’t really tell it is stair beams. This could also be considered a decisive moment because he could have moved any time I took the photo, making it vastly different. However, he is a lazy cat so he’d probably be there a while. The way this photo is cropped makes it look like he’s either stuck in a box or prison bars, like he can’t get out. Socks loves eye contact for some reason, so him looking straight at the camera makes it feel like he is trying to tell the viewer something, like “Let me out!”.