:-> Yah, she looked a lot friendlier and contented before the flash bounced off her tapetum lucidum. (That was with the red-eye-reduction pre-flash, by the way, which is why her eyes aren't so bright they look like headlamps and blur out larger, the way so many flash photos of cats do. I guessed that the red-eye reduction wouldn't be as effective as it is on humans but I wasn't sure whether it would be enough to make a noticeable difference. Turns out, it is.)
I was on my back, and had pulled my knees up while she was out of the room. When she returned, she had to climb the hill of my legs and perch atop my kneecaps. She wound up facing sideways from me, so I stuck my arm way out to the side to get the photo from in front of her. She wasn't glaring at me the whole time the way this photo makes her look ...
... but I like this look too -- as you said, "delightfully evil".
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I was on my back, and had pulled my knees up while she was out of the room. When she returned, she had to climb the hill of my legs and perch atop my kneecaps. She wound up facing sideways from me, so I stuck my arm way out to the side to get the photo from in front of her. She wasn't glaring at me the whole time the way this photo makes her look ...
... but I like this look too -- as you said, "delightfully evil".
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Greybeard is a large fluffy cat: