White Nights, Pink Cats

As part of the 'Nuit Blanche' (sleepless night) event in Paris, this was a strange apparition I stumbled across in the orangery of the Bercy park.

Sleepwalking cats, of all things, trundling eerily around the trees with their arm aloft, quite disconcerting but strangely intriguing.

Technically, without a tripod (because I really don't like them much and don't often have the patience to set up shots, preferring spontaneity) this was a tricky shot. There was very little light, and apart from my own wobbling, the cats themselves were moving, so I had to use the blur to give a soft, dreamlike effect to the shot, and a lot of them were unusable.

 

 

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