I love photography and cats, I do my best to combine both those things as good as possible. My journey with cats photography began few years ago when my wife started to breed Maine Coons. Being around the cats and photographing them gives me a lot of joy. I spent a lot of time perfecting my skills in capturing the beauty of cats. My goal is to show different expressions and emotions flowing from the cat's eyes. I prefer to use a simple background and light setting which complements the cat, nothing else. In my photographs I follow Albert Einstein's maxim. " Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" (http://www.robertsijka.com/about.html) Ten years ago my family and I had the opportunity to move to China. After a while we started to miss the company of animals, they have always been in our lives. The dog was first, later a cat we rescued from the street. Then we heard about Maine Coons and we brought one from Europe. Now we have fallen in love with this breed. In the blink of an eye several cats were walking around the house. Of course, pretty soon we wanted to have our own kittens and our adventure with breeding began. Then we came to the question, how to present our cats to the world? I think my journey with photography started at this moment. There was only one answer to this question, I needed to learn photography. I started collecting necessary equipment, learning the basics of photography and I took my first photos. During this process, I found great pleasure in taking pictures. Playing with cats and taking their pictures gave me a lot of joy. I decided that my pictures shouldn’t look like all other beautiful cat pictures, they must be something special. I started experimenting with light, backgrounds and retouching. After several thousand photos I ended up with my current style.» (http://elhurgador.blogspot.nl/2016/12/robert-sijka-gatos-fotografia.html) undefined

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