THE GREATEST ACTION SHOT IN MY HEAD!

I think Matt could take pretty much any action shot he aimed for and it would be amazing! But could he get this one for me as a Christmas present? It’s one that is in my aging, often odd mind! Here’s the scenario…

My youngest kiddo is renting a room upstairs, two floors above my basement bedroom. He brought two kitty cats with him, one who loves me named Louie, and one who loves me not after she tried to eat my face when she was just a kitten and is now as big as a tiger and named Lucy Fur (lucyfur, get it?). Lucy really did take a little chunk outta my jowl when I tried to pick her up as a new timid little kitten to give her a big hug. (jowl- joul, the lower part of a person’s or animal’s cheek especially when it is fleshy or drooping, 😂 that’s me!) 

When Lucy first moved in upstairs, my kiddo brought his kitty condo that Matthew got him for Christmas one year. Lucy sits atop, filling in the entire condo level and lovingly watches her kitten daddy when he is home or awaits his return from work. 

Okay, okay, let’s get to the action shot… When my kiddo and the kitties moved home, my hubby and I would lay in bed in the morning and wonder at the banging upstairs, commenting, “Gosh, this kiddo sure walks angry when he gets up!” This went on every morning! When I went upstairs one morning soon after the banging, thinking I better say something to my kiddo, I found the kiddo had already left for work. “It couldn’t be Lucy making that noise?!” Oh, yes, indeed, it is!

Okay, really, now here’s the shot: Lucy, just a little ticked off but with a smile on her feline face, wants me to remember she is upstairs. She stands on hind legs atop the edge of her condo and raises her front paws in perfect adjacent diving ready position, points her back paw she kicks back while her other launches off the condo, gracefully but with tremendous strength leaps 12 inches (or whatever room is left between her and the ceiling) into the air as she prepares for the perfect front pike position, executes pike perfectly, has kitty spittle and light colored fur floating around her as she executes a double back summersault, and finally lands the combination on two hind legs with front paws elevated like a Simone Biles perfect 10 vault!!!!! 

Matthew’s action shot, of inside my head, would capture the details of Lucy’s physically focused and contorted torso and facial expression. He would capture the amazement of her important effort and goals. He would even capture the reflecting, tiny kitty spittles and fur flecks surrounding her and supporting her as she pushes through just a split second moment of something that is important to her. (Even if it is important to her that I need to know who’s boss!)

Check out Matt’s galleries of shots, he’s really that talented! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful sports season!