:-)) Sunday Cat! #979 July 19, 2026 ((-:

Welcome all to the Sunday Cat!, a weekly online community gathering on a subject of mutual interest, our feline friends. The Sunday Cat! has appeared each Sunday,e except for a brief interruption in September, 2016, since Anton AK started the thread at DPReview on 23 September 2007. Successive thread managers have been John King, Warriormouse, Robert J, Coldamus, Robert J again (with an assist by StanTsui) and since September 2016, former lurker, me. When DPReview was threatened with closure in March 2023, the last regular Sunday Cat! there was hosted on 2 April 2023. After taking a leap of faith, the Sunday Cat! found refuge here on 9 April 2023.

Composed Kitty of the Week!

This exquisitely marked kitty appears very comfortable in front of the camera while on duty as a cemetery guardian in Turkey. :)

~~Image by @AlanSh

As said by Warriormouse, "Photos can be more than just art, they can be memories, so come share your pictures and stories of your feline companions with us."

"Official" posting time is every Sunday at 0000 UTC. Because this is Saturday afternoon for me, posting time may vary to accommodate my schedule. I'll try to post a message if I know I will be very late. Anyone anxious to start the new week is free to do so. But if you do, please PM me so I don't accidentally double post.

Come one, come all! All cats, all cameras, all cat fanciers welcome! Digital cats or silver halide cats, cats of metal, or cats of the wilderness. Big cats, small cats, kittens and their toys. Cats of pen and ink, cats of brush and canvas, from any time, any place. Tales of their lives or adventures. Let the Sunday Cat! be a refuge to enjoy and marvel at the magic of cats, where positive comments abound and constructive criticism is given if requested.

The Sunday Cat! is now open for mischief. :D

Last week's purrs, #978 / DPRv #170 / Sunday Cats! #70

Thread Manager's Corner:
Last week may have been a little short of images, but it was a good one for story telling. Both of which are welcome here! I hope that everyone is enjoying better weather now than in the previous few weeks. Over the last week it finally got hot here, which slowed down my film photography a bit as I've been going out later in the evening. The ISO 100 film I loaded the camera with is not the most suitable for nightime shots unless I bring along a tripod. :) So, I've been taking the digital cameras along instead. (It is handy to be able to change the ISO at the spin of a dial, or automagically!) Hoping that everyone as a good week ahead and lots of opportunity to shoot new images or even work with old ones. :D

~~~ Kim

Though small in size, the imprint they make on our lives is huge.

Last of the county fair kitties. 😀

Cats are curious creatures. On the one hand they are very independent. On the other they like our company. I have a little headphone set up in the bedroom, that I use to listen to music and not disturb my wife (my open back cans leak a lot of sound). Micio often comes to join me. Have you noticed that they know exactly where we are in the house, even when they are sleeping. He came to join me last night and decided it was time for a wash too.

This is my wild, feral barn cat who lives outside. I call her, Baby Girl.

She loves photography, and if I go outside and take pictures, she follows me around like a little puppy.

Steve Thomas

Mistress of the House

WhyNot

Oh my! She's looking magnificent! It appears that light bouncing off the floor provided some fill light to complement the backlighting. So much to enjoy here. :)

It's nice to have a kitty who so willingly participates in the image taking! There always is so much detail to capture there that they make wonderful photo subjects. :)

Yes, cats have their reputation of being standoffish, but I think their curiosity is one of the things that keeps them engaged with us. Mr. P (Palmer) kept watch on me working from a short cat tree in the hallway. It was up and away from Mr. Me so he could monitor uninterrupted.

Mr. P at his hallway perch.

Mr. Me always seemed to want to know where I was, and sometimes would set himself up where he could keep an eye on me while I worked at the computer. He wasn't much of a lap guy, but he got up on the bed every night until he wasn't able to do that anymore.

Mr. Me keeping an eye on me from one of his favorite perches.

After Cali's companion kitty Sheila died, Cali would not let me out of her sight. Often, if I was walking around the house, she would be right beside me, or underfoot, looking up at me, purring so loudly the house seemed to rattle with it! Eventually she warmed up to Peaches, one of her kittens that she had been separated from for over 5 years. I don't think that she knew that Peaches was hers, but in time they became very close.

Cali (front) and Sheila

Cali and Peaches