Looking through my old print negatives, as I do from time to time, I fell upon a few portraits of our cats. Essential family members for many years who virtually ruled our lives… Scratch being the last having passed on already some time ago.

This one was taken on Ilford 400 ISO film on my EOS-100 SLR with EF 100 mm f2,8 fixed focal lens… it got me thinking about the little guy and how he amazingly put up with my incessant teasing and name-calling throughout his life. Things are defintely different now without him.

There has never been a pet who’s had that much power my soul… who could melt me right down through the floor boards just looking at him staring at me and telling ME how stoopid I look.

So with this poor excuse for a newly inspired image, I’m simply taking a moment to tell you all how much I loved him and how much he impacted my life.

Now please excuse me while I go cry my eyes out.