Gregory's ServerThis 1961 photo is called “The Mob”, and was shot by professional cat photographer Walter Chandoha. Originally a WW II combat photographer, his signature style was filming cats at their eye level. He collected nearly 100,000 cat photographs and it’s pretty cool that someone made a career out of this.
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Church of Jeff
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spiegelmama
@jeffowski This is the most Warrior Cats photo ever. It should be the cover for a collected series.     
Paul Quirk
@Sunny @jeffowski photography used to be an art and a science. The chemistry was part of a magical process. Perhaps the thing we lost with all our progress is learning how to shoot less with more care. Imagine not having dozens of rejects, and being in the moment you are capturing, thinking about lighting and composition instead of digging through menus on a screen to tweak your HDR settings.
Paul Quirk
@Sunny @jeffowski I have a different perspective. Most of society is made up of trend chasers trying to figure out their identity and seek ease and convenience while trying to gain recognition and popularity; they will always go from one fad to the next and will always be sold profitable convenience. We still have artist-painters today, and for those who really appreciate the art of photography, we still have film. I can still buy Kentmere and develop it, and my Pentax K1000 still works fine.
Paul Quirk
@Sunny @jeffowski What is art? Many want to get into photography to feed their ego, but end up just working for big advertising companies so they can sell people a false dream. That isn't art, it's just a job. Art has become highly commercialized in the modern world where it has become a career. But then there's people like Maud Lewis who's paintings sold well into a time when photography supposedly drove the painters out. This is from my K1000, Kentmere 100, developed myself, 2020 
Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire
@jeffowski That is actually how to photograph animals. Get down to their level. Take pictures in their world. Obviously it'll be different if you're photographing giraffes or elephants, though.  
John Breen
@jeffowski This reminds me of the SciFi TV show from the 1960's "Land of the Giants".
frykitty likes Halloween
@jeffowski There is a segment from NHK called "Cat's Eye View of Japan" with a videographer who also has made a job of it. You can find his wonderful pieces on NHK's YouTube channel.
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Stark Potano
@jeffowski those cats are about to start a gang fight around the neighborhood to decide which one is worthy of the leftover food in the trash bin back there.  
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
This photo makes me hear the title sequence of "West Side Story". With snapping fingers.
Church of Jeff
@nyrath -- "Walter Chandoha photo of a group of cats glaring and moving as a group (reminds me of West Side Story how they are lined up behind the leader)."
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
I didn't see "(reminds me of West Side Story how they are lined up behind the leader)"
Church of Jeff
@nyrath -- Hovering over the photo in a web-browser on my PC shows the mouse pointer turn into a magnifying glass with a '+' symbol and up pops the alt-text.
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In the browser, I wish there were a way to copy the alt-text. Or is there and I just haven't figured it out?
Church of Jeff
@swordplay @nyrath -- No... It is a limitation of the graphics file formats as well.
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
It must act differently on my Android tablet. When I click the "Alt" button in the picture's lower left corner, that box dialog appears.  
Rachel_CxY
@jeffowski It's amazing. Il reminds me of a Gon drawing in the story "Gon and his crew" or something like that. 
MaxTheFox
@jeffowski @nyrath I suppose a combat photographer had to lay down a lot so it makes sense.
Peter Weilnböck
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This is a better action film poster than most action film posters!
Can someone greenlight this?