Cooper is a pretty solitary fellow when he’s out with his camera. He usually sticks to photographing the landscape, trees and plants. Every now and then we get a surprise cameo appearance from a human subject.
Last week Cooper was roaming the neighborhood with his camera and ran into a neighbor, Elaine Thompson, who is a professional photographer here in Seattle. No stranger to Cooper and his work, she shot a photo of him, and he shot a photo of her! Elaine shoots all sorts of amazing photos and Cooper is pretty jelous of her work with the Seattle Seahawks – isn’t that a type a bird?
“Neighbor Visit” Here is Elaine saying hello to Cooper!
“Dorks” This is one of Cooper’s best known portraits of his humans, Deirdre & Michael.
“Baby Brother” Up close and personal with Cooper’s little sibling, Cameron.
“Garden Girl” Cooper commiserates with a gardener pulling weeds.
“Little Boy Orange” This cute child holds his hand out in friendship to Cooper.
Cooper is currently running around in the yard taking pictures. He wears his camera only once a week, which allows him to simply be a cat the rest of the time.
For the first year that Cooper was shooting photos we didn’t see a single shot of another animal! We were so worried that he had no friends. Maybe we’d raised such a charming people-loving feline that all other cats wanted nothing to do with him. After his appearance on Animal Planet in December, word must have gotten ’round to the neighborhood cats, because now Cooper has loads of friends! Okay, he only has three that we know of, but they sure look nice.
sunshine while Michael and I headed to Chicago to see the unveiling of his new Cooper: Photographer Cat exhibit at the 
It’s been nearly two years now that Cooper has been shooting photographs on his trips around the neighborhood. A lot of people ask us about what we’ve seen that surprises us. The biggest surprise is that we haven’t seen any photos of birds or squirrels! We imagine that some day that Cooper may come home with evidence that helps the Seattle Police Department crack a big case they’re working on (maybe capturing a cat burglar)… but that hasn’t happened yet either. But we have seen some interesting peeks into the lives of our neighbors.
Cooper could write a photography textbook with everything he has been learning on the job. For two years now, one day a week, this cat has taken photos in the sun, in the dark, in the rain and in the snow.
For nearly two years Cooper has given us an interesting look at the world from a cat’s point of view. Once a week he steps out the cat door wearing his collar camera, which snaps a new photo every two minutes. This rare glimpse into the feline perspective has allowed us to appreciate cats even more. After all, the neighborhood certainly looks quite different from six inches off the ground!
While we haven’t been sending Cooper out with his camera during this week’s record-breaking Seattle heat, he is certainly enjoying the long, hot days of summer!
Cooper has taken another full day of photos with his collar camera. We have assembled them into another flipbook movie – we’re loving this new exciting way to view his movements throughout the neighborhood!