A friend of mine who lit my interest in photography once said - "Good wildlife photo is one in which you can replace the animal by cat and photograph still will look great."
I thought a lot about his words and they definitely influenced my style.
Last weekend my wife and I walked to the Russian Orthodox Gorny Monastery in Jerusalem. While there is no wildlife in the territory of the monastery, there are plenty of monastic cats. So I took the camera along with me intending to make a picture of cat where cat is not the key element, but part of the scenery.
I ended up with this image:
What do you think - did I pass a "Cat test"?
The cat itself was a gorgeous one, a worthy representative of his species. Here is a closeup of His Highness
