Rescued Moments 1.20.15 | Seattle Cat Photography

January 22, 2015January 14, 2016Leave a comment

Hi friends –

Here are just a few moments to share with you from the other day at the rescue while I was there photographing adoptable kitties. Each time I go in there are new faces, and sometimes there are some ‘older’ faces that I sort of hope not to see again(because I hope they were adopted since I last saw them). And I want the sickly kitties to be better next time I’m in!

Pekoe is ready to pose for me

Lipton looks out towards the window

Watson spies me before I take photos

Watson and Mrs. Hudson had just been returned by their adopters

Mrs. Hudson had been described as ‘painfully shy’

Scrappy just came back from surgery; she’s having her gums checked for good color, by our volunteer vet

Mickey, adoptable and adorable is incredibly sweet but shy; he’s also losing weight so that has to be figured out

I hope you enjoyed this little glimpse; I do have to get back to processing a couple of cat photos so I can post them ready for potential adopters. And back to my big business plan. I have new session info to post next…excited to do that!

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Holiday Tidings | Reflections

December 27, 2014January 14, 2016Leave a comment

Merry Christmas, all! A tad late to say it but I think I have good reason…well actually I’ll make a few excuses about being with family.

I do hope that the holidays have brought good tidings to all you fabulous people out there! For once I was able to spend the holidays back here in England, away from Seattle…they are both homes to me. I have spent half my life in the Pacific Northwest, but my family and heart lie in England, usually so very far away.
It’s been crazily busy, seeing relatives and friends, joining in with festivities and food that I normally miss out on. My son has had the chance to feel included and involved (as well as reprimanded by many people who care!), which is what he so lacks and yearns for, and it’s been a treat to see him within the family I knows he wishes were always around.

I suppose I could lament about how I didn’t get my proper trip to London this time, how I didn’t get to go the cat café that I set my heart on. How I didn’t get to see some of the long lost friends that I wanted to, and most assuredly how I didn’t get the chance to slow down and spend time out taking the photographs that I wanted to (well there’s never enough time for all the photographs I want to take). I hadn’t spent Christmas here since 1999! I hope everyone had time to enjoy their families and friends, because they are precious gift.

I am flying back to Seattle today, much sooner than I’d like to, and with a heavy heart about leaving family I wish I could be with more often, as well as the green field-checkered landscape that is unspoiled in my mind. But I have to focus on what I’m bringing back, if it’s not what I’ll go back to. Aside from entirely too much Lego brought by Father Christmas/ Santa for my boy, I’ll be bringing back a business plan that I’ve been working on to relaunch my photography venture, goals for the coming year (look out!!), and new memories. There are several memory cards of images that I need to back up and process too.

I wish everyone well and hope you all hang in with me in 2015; I’ll be posting about my new photography session offerings really soon! So excited for the New Year. On my way to the airport right this minute!

merry christmas from K.A.Moore Photography, Seattle Pet & Lifestyle Photography

Wishing you peace, love and joy this Christmas.
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Wings of Rescue Mission 12.5.14 | Seattle Rescue Pet Photography

December 6, 2014January 14, 20162 Comments

Hi there everyone –

I had the fortune of documenting a Wings of Rescue this week, and oh, what an amazing thing to be a part of…

Many dogs, as well as some cats, arrived on several flights (at Paine Field, here just north of Seattle) from Southern California destined for new lives by way of some great local Washington rescues. Close to 600 animals arrived on the rescue transports that day, not really knowing what is in for them, but were met with open arms and second chances. There are many words I could say to explain what this sort of thing represents to me, and how it makes me feel, but I’ll share my images with you instead, and maybe you can sense the hope and relief. You can see that there are many people involved – missions like this don’t happen without a lot of people involved.

I’m still overwhelmed at the sight of the sheer number of animals that came here…I wish we didn’t have to fly animals around to different places to find them homes, but I’m very, very glad we can. Wishing them all homes for the holidays!

*You can see a bigger and better version of these images over on My Flickr album.
**Many thanks to all the rescues involved…you rock!

PS. Make sure you come on over to my Facebook page to say hi too!

A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing doesn’t have a heart. A dog’s heart is bigger than any “thing” you can ever own.”
― Elizabeth Parker, Paw Prints in the Sand

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Ginger Cats of Fall | Seattle Cat Photography

November 22, 2014January 14, 2016Leave a comment

Fans of ginger cats should be jumping up and down with joy at this super adorable collage. I can’t believe it to look at it… Over the last few weeks at Seattle Area Feline Rescue we have had (and have) so many ginger kitties! Red tabbies seem to be asked for specifically sometimes, so it’s crazy to have so many at once. There are even two girls among these faces (guess which!).
In the previous couple of weeks we had an influx of black and tuxedo cats, it seemed (and those are usually the hardest color to get adopted), but now it’s the turn of the red tabby. Maybe it’s because orange is a Fall color?!! I love the coincidence there…the perfect color to follow the black of Halloween!

So have a good look at all these adorable faces, and marvel at how different cats can all be. If you click on the link above, you can find the rescue’s site (here in lovely Seattle, of course).

And come on over and see me on Facebook at K.A.Moore Photography Facebook Page… It’s great to hear from you too, so please say hi!

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Rescued Moments 11.4.14 | Seattle Cat Photography

November 10, 2014January 14, 2016Leave a comment

Hello folks –

If you read my posts on here, or follow my Facebook page, you undoubtedly see lots of pretty portraits of beautiful cats….proof is in the pudding that professional images of rescue animals gets adopters in through the doors of rescues and shelters, and gets those animals adopted. I can’t think of a more gratifying way for me to use my photography skills – it’s therapeutic for me – and I’d encourage every photographer and artist to find a way to give back with their work. But hey, that’s another story…

The ‘story’ I have to share today is one with those images that I don’t expressly take or use for cat adoption but instead for documenting what happens at the rescue when I shoot. On just about every trip to the rescue when I go in to make cat portraits, I take my own behind-the-scenes images, those in-between moments, the photos that capture something extra, something usually unseen in my usual work that people see. There are so many little moments with cats that are quiet and just so flipping adorable, that I have to share them. I am also transitioning my professional work of pets and family to be documentary-style, so it’s all just naturally falling this way for my photography these days. These are from my most recent visit to Seattle Area Feline Rescue. Enjoy and come back soon!!

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