Meet Bensen and Nikon!!!

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Ok. So I have the best cats IN THE WORLD. I love them so much. I used to hate cats. But then I got one and now I'm hooked.

I'm a professional photographer-of people. But I love taking pictures and my cats are my only willing models-lol! (that is, until I have kids)

I have had both of my kitties since they were 6 weeks old, so they are used to being photographed at this point haha!

So anyway, thanks for letting me share! I take so many fun pictures of my beloved kitties and they even have a Facebook fan page. I love them so much!!!!!

My white one is named Nikon. He's 10 months old now and is so much fun. He loves to cuddle and follows me around everywhere. He's SO mellow and lets Bensen hiss and growl at him and he never complains. I believe he is part Maine Coon!

Bensen is my black cat. She is 1 1/2 and the first pet I ever had of my own. She is so fun; she can sit, shake, beg, come, and roll over. She taught Nikon all she knows about posing for me lol! Both Bensen and Nikon have the same mother :)


Nikon for his Christmas pictures! Isn't he ridiculously adorable??


Bensen is not amused. haha!


Yeah. This was very hard to get. Bensen was so mad at me and Nikon was distracted.


These are my kitties when Nikon was a baby!! He was about 3 months old here :)


HAHAHAH! This picture cracks me up! Nikon is so much bigger than Bensen now. They were NOT happy to do this picture. lol!


Nikon in the snow. Don't worry, I don't let my cats outside, ever. He was wearing a leash and his harness here-I edited it out. Gotta love the power of photoshop :)


I threw a snowball at Bensen and she was like hey!! This was a long time ago, back before I knew about proper collar sizing lol!!


As I'm sure most of you know, Nikon, my cat, is named after my camera brand lol. So I photographed my Nikon kitty with my Nikon lenses :)


Halloween. Bensen was Woody and Nikon was Buzz. 


Bensen hamming it up back when she was like 8 months old.

 

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Your cats are just too cute!! and your photography is just brilliant as well. 
I want to get my Monkey a Dino hoodie so bad but I think she would hate it, I have never put her in any sort of outfit at all lol 
how do you get your little kitties to stay in their outfits??
 

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How do you get your cats to wear the outfits, stay still, AND not look like they want to kill you?!  The cats are so cute, and yes - lovely photos.  I'm with Cynbarrie, I want Mouse to have a Dinohoodie too, but I'm sure he wouldn't agree with me.... 
 
 
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Thank you guys! I think it's a mix of I have been dressing them up since they were 6 weeks old to just keeping them in it and they can't take it off lol. They actually don't mind the dino hoodie-it's when I put the hood up they don't like it lol. Some of the pics take a long time to get them to stay still and look at me. They do amazing when it's just one, but having them together Bensen HATES it and Nikon gets scared because she growls. haha. I just growl back at Bensen.
 

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Such wonderful photos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love them!!  Ha,Ha, Angel would not like me putting him in an outfit.  He would be like, "I don't think so mommy!"  

He did let me put a bow tie on him for his Christmas picture, & that even took 10 shots to get the final one.

I'm an armature photographer, but would love to get a nice camera some day, & learn how to use it!  

All of my photos are taken w/ just a small simple digital camera. My first one was a Kodak easy share, & that stopped working last yr. so my parents got

me a Cannon Power shot for Christmas. I'm just happy to have a camera again. I was going crazy w/o one!!

Here are some of my photos, I'm not sure if you can see them when you click the link on the bottom of my signature, so here are a few to check out, if not. 


;http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/kelly8-69/library/Meowy Christmas 2012

http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/kelly8-69/library/2013 Christmas

http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/kelly8-69/library/Arboretum

http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/kelly8-69/library/Garden Pictures

http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/kelly8-69/library/Garden Pictures/Coastal Snow

http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/kelly8-69/library/Garden Pictures/Spider webs

http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/kelly8-69/library/Kitty Kisses
 

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@Angels mommy, some lovely pictures there with beautiful colours. The ones that are most striking for me are the spider ones - despite there being no cat in them!  Lovely shots.
 

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Gorgeous cats!  I am envious that you can get them to wear the outfits.  Must be like you said since you've done it their whole lives.  I tried to get some cute ones of my cats for my Christmas cards this year and it took forever, because they kept looking very angry...lol.  I finally figured out that strong smelling treats helped to distract them long enough to get a few decent shots.
 
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Gorgeous cats!  I am envious that you can get them to wear the outfits.  Must be like you said since you've done it their whole lives.  I tried to get some cute ones of my cats for my Christmas cards this year and it took forever, because they kept looking very angry...lol.  I finally figured out that strong smelling treats helped to distract them long enough to get a few decent shots.
Thank you! it's also a LOT of patience. I just keep putting them back, and they will finally just stay there and look at me until I'm done.  They are such sweeties :)
 
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