Terry Fox is one of several neighbourhood cats who frequent our corner lot, which I suspect serves as a shortcut for animal traffic between houses. He has taken to whiling away the sunny springtime afternoons by slumbering on our deck. And to leaping into the house through my office window whenever it is open—much to the annoyance of our own cats, who, despite their advanced years, always seem ready for a fight. It looks as if he is sleeping in these photographs, but he is in fact wide awake and steadfastly ignoring me, as cats in their regal superciliousness are wont to do.
I made these exposures with my new-to-me Nikon FE mounted with a 180 mm f/2.8 AI-s lens, set to minimum focus distance at f/8. Despite the fact that Terry, who was unequivocally aware of my presence, resolutely refused to look at me, I love the way these photographs turned out. This lens is spectacular. I look forward to using it in portraiture.