With a very heavy heart we decided yesterday that Joey could not go on.
Joey was our cat for 15 years (got him as a very young kitten) and was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer last spring. At that time we decided to let him have a very risky operation to try to save his life, only one doctor in the Netherlands was willing to do the operation and for a while it seemed to have succeeded. However end of the summer the cancer came back and he was given only 3-4 weeks, that turned out a lot longer….. up until this morning when we called the vet to let Joey sleep.

Joey Doorhof a few years ago.

For some people pets are just pets, for us they are a vital part of our family and we are therefore very sad and will miss him dearly. As everything with Joey he did it his way, ignoring the 3-4 weeks notice and just put up the fight with our help to stay with us as long as possible, we agreed that as soon as he would be in pain we would help him, luckily he never was in pain but yesterday midday he was loosing his balance more and more (that started a week ago), and he did not eat for a few days now. Tonight he still slept with us but fell out of bed and clearly was at the end of his fight.

Joey was unique, we always called him baby because he did not grow a lot, although he ate like crazy. When Annewiek or I walked to ITC he would always follow us like a little dog and always wanted to be close to us, if we were watching a movie, or sleeping as long as he could be close it was ok.

This morning we buried Joey close to our house in our garden so also now he is close, but in our hearts he will always be as close as possible.
Today and tomorrow no photography blog…. sorry.

I can’t say too much yet, but last week we were at a location where they sell mannequins. And no we are not going to do a shoot there (although maybe it’s not a bad idea), but I needed something for an idea I’ve been playing with for some time now and we had to buy it there. As always I always have my Canon 5DMKII with me and this time it was not a bad idea either. I just could not resist doing some snapshots while walking through the store. In this blog post some of the images I took there.

Remember we were just visiting as customers so I could not do a real photoshoot, it started out as just some snaps, but these ones I really loved so I decided to share them with you. All images were shot with the available light.

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Last week I already shared some nature shots I made during a family walk.
Because we still had some snow we went out again last weekend, here are some of the shots I took during the 2 hour family walk through the “waterloop bos” close to Marknesse, which again is close to our home

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