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Science uses one of my images

March 13, 2017My work in print, Photographypet, photography, PhotoshelterMarc Perkins

This week’s Science, the preeminent scientific journal, features one of my images:

A mouse scratching its face on Science's website — A screen capture of Science’s March 10, 2017 issue’s website (used with permission of AAAS).

The image is being used to illustrate the accompaniment to an article on contagious itching in mice. This is now my second image publication in Science; the first was a looser crop of this image, used to illustrate the accompaniment to an article on limb digit developmental patterns.

Many thanks to the editors of Science for being repeat customers of my images!

And, for the photographers out there who want to know how I did this, the answer is sadly low-tech: I posted a keyword-rich album of mouse closeups many years ago on my Photoshelter website, and the art associates / designers of Science found me. They e-mailed me with an urgent request, and both times we had a contract and price agreed on within a few hours of their first e-mail.

Memories: Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery uses my images

January 3, 2017Biology, My work in print, Photographycat, macro, my work in print, pet, photographyMarc Perkins

I got a little reminder today of a neat use of my images: the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery purchased two of my cat tongue closeups to illustrate an article on the medical implications of cat hairballs. The article was behind a paywall when it was first published, but the full text is now freely available.

Here’s the reference: Cannon, M. 2013. Hair Balls in Cats: A normal nuisance or a sign that something is wrong? Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 15: 21-29. doi: 10.1177/1098612X12470342. http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/15/1/21.abstract

My cats eat grass

August 1, 2011Pets, Photography, Productscat, pet, photographyMarc Perkins

Cats are carnivores: their skull, jaws, and teeth all cry out “I’m a hunter. I eat things like you (but smaller) for breakfast.” Yet cats in both the wild and captivity consume grass voluntarily.

A good friend bought our cats some wheat grass as a welcome-home-from-the-shelter present when we adopted them, and both enjoyed nibbling on it. Unfortunately, though, we recently learned that one of our cats has a wheat allergy, and the vet wasn’t sure if the allergens being tested for were in the grain or the leaves. So, we stopped buying wheat grass for them.

But wheat isn’t the only grass out there. In fact, Wikipedia reports that oats are often called “cat grass”. So, we ordered some tack oats from Johnny’s Selected Seeds and planted it last week. Both Lucca and Kira have been eying it through the window as it grew, and today we brought the pot in for them to eat (it took about a week to go from seed to cat-ready size).

Within a few minutes both kitties were investigating:

Lucca sniffs a pot filled with newly germinated (and nibbled on) oat grass (tack oats; Avena sativa). (Marc C. Perkins) — Lucca sniffs a pot filled with newly germinated (and nibbled on) oat grass (tack oats; Avena sativa).

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Photographing animals at the Newport Beach Animal Shelter

June 22, 2011Orange County, Pets, Photographyadoption, animal, cat, dog, pet, photographyMarc Perkins

I’ve started volunteering with the Newport Beach Police Department’s Animal Control Unit to take pictures of their dogs and cats so they can add pictures to their Petfinder website. Last week was my first session with them, and I had a great time photographing about 20 animals in one afternoon.

First up were the dogs. Many of them were super-exited to be let out for a photography session, and thus just a smidgen hyper. But this white husky was downright calm: