Eyes Wide Shut

The Whole Kitten Caboodle

Photograph copyright: GAUTHAM MANOHAR

Maybe I should have used the headline `Mortar Bored' for this post. The photograph was sent to me by India-based Gautham Manohar, whose work was featured here last week. ``I was backing my car out of my car park,'' he told me, ``when I noticed this little guy lying on the opposite wall. He was looking extremely alert at the time, glaring at me continuously. With thoughts of taking the proverbial cat on the wall shot, I rushed upstairs to my apartment to get my camera.

``When I got back, I realised that what I had mistaken for a hostile glare was actually his struggle to keep his eyes open. He was now virtually asleep. He did make a feeble attempt at opening them once he saw the intrusion into his private space, but it was a lost cause, and he drifted off again, and I had the shot of the puuuurfect nap. I like the shot because it conveys a sense of bliss and content, a world where Tom has never met Jerry.''

You can see more of Gautham's photography at his Flickr account.