We follow up Ludgwig, with one of his street buddies, quite appropriately and unexpectedly. Two days after the white and orange kitty joined the series, his close neighbor John Adams disappeared. Perhaps because the tiger tabby is so handsome or maybe because so many people like his name, he caused quite the consternation on Nextdoor when reported missing. I didn’t learn about the two beasties’ close residences until about a week after John Adams was found. He hangs out on North; Ludwig around Madison, not far from where the streets meet.
Ludwig’s owner was one of the many folks scouring alleys and rapping locked garages searching for the cat who would be named president of the United States. No one guessed that he was trapped a stone’s throw away (for five days) inside the nearby, abandoned florist shop, which closing I wrote about one year ago today.
John Adams spent the next week mostly indoors, while his owners awaited to receive a GPS collar, which he was wearing when I observed him, on North Avenue, this afternoon. Benny, who lives at the end of the same block, wears similar tracking-rig.
I used Fujifilm GFX 50R and Fujinon GF63mmF2.8 R WR lens to capture the Featured Image and companion; both are close-crops. Vitals for both, aperture manually set: f/5.6, ISO 160, 1/125 sec, 63mm; 2:59 p.m. PDT. I tweaked highlights but otherwise did not edit the portraits. I prefer the natural contrast of light to shadows.
Update, Oct. 9, 2021: I will add fresh photos to the profiles, as newer ones are taken. I occasionally see the same kitties but rarely shoot new portraits, which is a bad habit that has stopped. John Adams still wears a GPS, and I wonder: Does it slow down his wanderings? I ask because he looks heavier since the last sighting sometime earlier this year.
Captured today, using iPhone 13 Pro, vitals: f/1.5, ISO 50, 1/859 sec, 26mm; 4:08 p.m. PDT; on his street.
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