Chaplin - The Dreamer
by Marianne Molloy
(Long Beach, CA )
I took this picture of Chaplin when he was about 9 weeks old. We had him at a Petco (where we take our cats for showing and adoption) and he was wistfully looking out the cage and the sun was in the right spot to illuminate his eyes. I simply opened the cage door and he first looked at my camera but then just slightly turned his gaze away and that’s when I took the picture. If I had to do over again, I wish I had centered the picture better but to be honest, I had no idea what a gorgeous picture it was going to turn out to be so I didn’t think about composition at the time.