Je te presente: Monica Lewinsky et le Mademoiselle Fuzzbucket

For this assignment, I chose to take pictures of my cat (the white cat) and my brother's cat Monica Lewinsky (the black cat), whom we were babysitting while he was away. I think I captured their personalities quite well by choosing these photographs; my cat mainly sleeps on that radiator all day (when she's not irrationally howling for attention), and Monica is too twitchy to take a good picture of when the light's artificial. That is why the only picture without her head being blurred is so dark- I fiddled with the shutter speed enough so that it could get a "clear" picture of her. My cat's poses express laziness and semi-attentiveness, and Monica's poses/expressions communicate disorder and apathy. The pictures I took of my cat are taken at an angle which best displays her favorite place/ activity of the day without the viewer feeling like they're disturbing her, because they're mostly taken from a distance. The pictures I took of Monica are uncomfortably close to her face and unclear because it's a reflection of her personality; she's afraid of everything, and by giving the viewer that angle and that point of view, they get a taste of what it's like to be Monica Lewinsky (the cat.). The background in my cat's photos affects the photos because the window outside changes the lighting and the intensity of the electric candle in the window. The background in Monica's photos affects the photo because it has the "Tournée du Chat Noir" poster in the back, which mirrors Monica, since she is a black cat, almost making the same facial expressions. Successes: the lighting in the 2nd & 3rd pictures of my cat, and the replication of the Chat Noir in the first picture of Monica Lewinsky.