Rat Cat

Thanks Belinda. OJ was having a good day!

Very creative Billyboy! Job well done!

OJ looks so proud! I love the color contrast too. It is a lovely shot : )

Thanks Ruth and Mayu for the positive feedback!

You really do put some outstanding effort into these, well done billyboy!!

Rat Cat’s one of my favs Mel, so thanks for the encouragement!

Well…. I like this even better than BirdPuss!!

You know what Cathie? So do I. Bird Puss is nice, but Rat Cat is straight from the heart… bent as it is !

Thank you so much for looking in and sharing the wickedness!

icky but so cute!

Thanks Hiroko… and thanks for putting me on your watchlist!

Agree with CathieT, this IS better than Bird Puss – more revealing of cats’ true nature, pretty but lethal!

Cheers Denzil!!

I love this!

Fantastic result, you’ve blended the different images wonderfully!

Many thanks Dave and Damian for the encouragement!

Great card. I like Belgian’s (yea, I know you’re American, but some of it must have rubbed off) – they have my sense of humour. Did you ever work with a crazy bastard called Praga Kahn? I remember some of his music – he’s probably dead by now.

Amazing image!

Thanks Steve and Helen.

Steve, I`ll have to check out Praga Kahn—there is an alarming number of crazy bastards we`ve recorded who are now dead… probably relates to their Belgian sense of humor!!

I looked him up, he’s still alive, and still making music. The Lords of Acid was his later guise. Apparently huge quantities of drugs don’t always kill you. But you’re in the music industry, so you’d have seen a bit of that.

Thanks for the research Steve. I don’t think drugs actually have much to do with deaths in the music industry these days… it’s more likely from the wives finding out what their husbands really get up to in the studio!

brilliantly put together! looks like a photo taken all at once!

Wow looks like my Raven when she was so little. The act is something she want to do with our Gigi. Great image.

another home run from you, billy!

had to smile when i saw this… i was looking at the rat like “jeez… you’re almost more than half as big as OJ and still got owned by him? you were pretty much asking for it, then!”

Great concept. Very well done.

aw poor rat, but cute kitty anyway

he is adorble, great photo

Another fantastic piece …& little OJ again immortalised,,,,,love it

That’s what I call dedicated, having to drag the rat back into the house and working late into the night. Great idea, great piece.

Probably more sinister than dedicated, but sometimes you just gotta be dark to do the business. Thanks Stephen and everyone else who was dark enough to dig Rat Cat and leave a comment!

Beautifully shot image! ....yet quite unsettling…the kitten is sooo cute, then your eyes suddenly drop to the dead rat and the whole picture takes on a slightly dark side. Love it!

that’s brilliant!!

Wow. I never ever would have guessed that this was a composite. Sheer Brilliance!

Absolutely bloody brilliant!
Love this so much!

Wow, what an image, poor rat but what a gorgeous cat and shot !!

Spectacular!!!!

Quite wonderfully unique, great imagination.

Fabulous shot you are clever!

wow, so clever, brilliant, and so thoughtful not scare the family with the rat! Don’t tell Ellen about the rat, she has some cute ones on here that quite like modelling!

Great work.

You crack me up! LMAO!

Billy, this is one of the best photo and photoshop i seen.. it looks like you took the whole image at once.. brillinat..

OMG what a hoot, something only a real cat lover could enjoy

This is too cute an image.. Very very well done indeed.. :)

I dont understand how you put the three pictures together without looking bad. I also noticed the rat has a shadow. How do you do it? Are there any tutorials on this? What is it called.

Its an excellent job!

aw this is cute!

Thanks, Maybe I will do that. I just hate reading. I have found some videos on other stuff but I dont know what to look for to do this. I will try to find something! Thanks! I have a photoshop book. Maybe I should read it and try some stuff.

Kitty brought you his Trophy!

This is too cute. Love it.

Ha Ha…..wonder why I’m suddenly thinking about Ikea and stuffed rats and bats LOL, You’ve done a fantastic job putting this together. I especially love the cute angelic look on the kitty’s face :)

Great job of putting this shot together. Well done.

Bill, I can’t believe I’ve not commented on this. I absolutely loved it the first time I saw it and still do. OJ looks so surprised to have found himself with a rather large “prize” and now, he doesn’t know quite what to do with it! His blue-gray eyes are beautiful and he was such a gorgeous little fellow. I don’t know which of your images is my favourites, but this one certainly comes up there. Beautiful piece of work.

Billy, I don’t know how I missed commenting on this as I’ve looked at it several times – I do apologise most humbly and beg your forgiveness _ me on knees and hands in prayer mode with a huge grin on my lips, tears running down my cheeks _. I’ll try not to miss your next contribution. As someone else noted, that rat is almost as big as OJ himself – it probably weighed MORE than him; just as well he didn’t actually have it in his mouth, he probably would’ve tripped over it, I can picture him trying to drag it along! LOL Even though you “made” the pic, it’s pretty much as I would imaginge a kitten looking!. LOL Yeah, I stilll love it heaps.

This is a fantastic piece of work. I thought is was real until I read the description. Well done on every level along the way to the finished work!

Great shot. Brillant work

Great work!

this is amazing work. Very believable to be real! I was wondering how you got the tail in his mouth and could shoot this quick enough. Wow, you’re a photo magician. :)

Poor rat…gorgeous kitten….terrific shot and excellent work putting it all together :)

fried cat and roasted rat

Your imagination and talent combined are a whole lot frightening….......LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL…...........

AWW Poor rattie,I hope he is just pretending to be dead.
Cute

oops just read profile,poor rattie is dead. :-(

Beautiful Kitten !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh gross hehehe.. but an awesome shot.. lol

Your masking techniques are so incredible.. and your shadows.. and your eye for perfection.. I am so wanting to learn how to mask!! when I do.. soon.. if I just get into some tutorial.. I will beging to fly to another level.. wow. wow.. wow!!

A real sweety! Love the look in his eyes….and love how you’ve put all this together too!

lucky you got the whole rat..my kitties would leave me choice parts ;)

I’m glad you put this in the Black Cats Group, Billy, it sooo belongs there, it looks fabulous amongst all the others. It’s still one of my Favourite pieces of yours.

Oh I have to admit, gotta love your sense of humour. Has to be an instant fave.

Awesome photo. Cool what you can do with Photoshop. He has the cutest look on his face.

True BEAST in this kitty’s eyes, lol! Wonderful postwork!

Well you could say the lil guy is punching well out of his weight division….

thanks so much billyboy, and we just love having you!

WOW. Genius shot and instant favourite.

This is taking your photography to a new limit..lol Nice work, but I’m sorry I don’t think I’ll do anything like it. lol Excellent work.

Congratulations on Challenge!

Thanks so much bb, we are so happy to have you and your beautiful work here.

awesome!

... cold.

it’s on bb, a challenge, do it!

lol this is awesome !

this is totally brilliant, even down to the look on the little kitten’s face – “what?” lol ….. your handling of the elements, lighting, and collaging is perfect and inspiring…...

WOW…................................ That’s cool and nice shot and nice work too!!!!
=D

Umm,,, I would prefer a live rat (have had them as pets) but very creative and inventive technique, LOL :-)
Thank you for mentioning no rats were harmed, LOL.

LOL, understood :-)

I just love this!!! So clever,

lol that is just too cute lol i love it..

Rat Cat is a brilliant composite Billy, if you had not described it in your commentary, I would have believed it was a photograph. Beautiful work!

:)))
Aloha Billy! Mahalo for your wonderful humour today.
I do enjoy your creative vision!

Fantastic work !!

love this,,,,and I really hate rats!!! fantastic work billyboy

You are a photoshop master. :)
You’re equally impressive with your studio work
though. You know your stuff & it shows!

brilliant work Billy ~ very imaginative and creative
the entire concept is well thought out and so beautifully composed

meow monsieur cat
another great image billyboy

Brilliant work!!!

fine work

I’ve not commented on this before?
That can’t be…........
I think you must’ve taken my comment off lol!

Ok….........OJ has to have been THE most adorable kitten of all catkind…...
The way his little head is tilted is just way too cute and has that massive
awwww factor…....and those eyes drag me deep into his little soul.
As for his playmate, wtf happened to Ratty’s left hind paw? Did OJ have a good chew on that first, before you wrestled it out of his teensy mouth?
And….I can just imagine you down in the dungeon working on this, creating your own ‘Frankestein’ while the rest of the world sleeps, totally unsuspecting of your latest creation being manifested in the early hours…...
Whatever, this is such an amazingly cool take Billy
Would look awesome on a T….......I’d wear it to bed if I had one!
L♥ve n Hugz
xox