Richard Battye

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Screen grab of Apple photos shared album titled Freya & Molly that contains 5,000 items. The top image shows Freya yawning in a cardboard box. There are 4,999 more of her and her sister.
A mackerel tabby all curled up looks at you over her tail. Perhaps you could go and sort out some dinner?
Close up of a mackerel tabby, Freya. She’d like to know what you are up to.
A mackerel tabby looking quizzically into the camera, surely every day is international cat day she thinks. What else is there to celebrate, except perhaps cheese, and treats, and the helpful giants with opposable thumbs who open the cat food, and things to chase, and naps, and other naps, and did I mention cheese already?….
Close up of a mackerel tabby, she can see into your soul x
A mackerel tabby with a pink nose turns to look at the camera, do you have treats, or perhaps some spare cheese?
A mackerel tabby sitting up in perfect cat form on a leather sofa, tail curled neatly around over her paws. She doesn’t know anything about the scratches, probably her sister.
Looking up at a concrete ventilation tower, the edge of a balcony (also concrete, obvs) and a palm tree at the Barbican arts centre against a blue autumn sky.
A mackerel tabby sitting on the end of her scratching plank looking at the camera.
A mackerel tabby in profile, her eye is half closed as she considers how best to get more treats out of the giant.
A close up of a mackerel tabby, the light of a window reflected in the black of her pupil. Her silver green right eye is looking into your soul.
A close up of a mackerel tabby looking just to the right of the camera, most likely because her sister is up to something, with the tip of tongue sticking out. Blep, she says.
A not so bright orange dusky moon setting next to a block of flats on Clapham Road in London. The moon is a bit grainy and lacking in detail. 400mm hand held resting on the widow sill.
Two cats chatting on the steps of rocky harbour jetty. Facing away from us on the top step a mackerel tabby, facing towards us with their paws on the top step a fluffier much much paler almost golden tabby with the beginnings of a majestic mane. They could be deep in conversation, or facing off over fishing rights.
A photo of the inside of Stockwell Bus Garage’s concrete shell roof and an old Routemaster bus taken on one of their heritage open days. The garage, 1952, is still going strong, the Routemaster with its opening front window on the top deck that were so good for a breeze in the summer, sadly no longer with us.
A mackerel tabby in a cardboard box with a round window. She’s lying on her back with her head hanging out of the window not a care in the world. Except when the photographer will bring treats.
A mackerel tabby kitten posing in a cardboard box looking at the camera.
A close up of a honey bee paused hanging on the side of a flower at the allotment. Amazing critters, tiny ice axes for toes, all-seeing eyes and essential for all sorts of other life.
A mackerel tabby, Freya, sitting on her blanket looking questioningly into the camera, treats now?
A mackerel tabby looks seriously into the camera. All cats are great cats she’s telling you.
A mackerel tabby looks to the right, thinking thoughts of great depth, or perhaps when will this giant put his camera down and sort out some snacks!
A mackerel tabby looks out suspiciously from her cardboard house. Hoomins are so strange, imagine making up imaginary cats when there are real ones just here x
A mackerel tabby lounging with her head out of a box with a round window. Not a care in the world, until she hears you starting to grate some hard cheese in the kitchen.
A photograph of the new moon with Venus as dusk fades into night.
A mackerel tabby keeping low and cool on the floor rolls over to see what’s up? Belly rub, perhaps?
Embankment in London from Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) to the MOD photographed from the other side of the Thames. The white jib of a huge, 150m-ish, crane parked on Whitehall can been seen poking up between two buildings on the Parliamentary Northern Estate. Even at an angle it is considerably taller than the Elizabeth Tower. Can it lift him, we shall see.
Two mobile cranes on Whitehall erecting a bigger mobile crane to, unfortunately, not yeet Starmer into orbit. But take down another crane that’s out of shot.
The view from Camberwell towards Vauhall at dusk in London showing a new moon and companion Venus on their way to setting. Jupiter is just visible above the chimneys on the right. Phone photo.
A mackerel tabby leans into a head scritch, she’s the cutest.
A mackerel tabby looks at the camera alarmed that you thought to disturb her without bringing treats. Know that you are a huge and ongoing disappointment.
A mackerel tabby sitting on top of a wine box book case that nobody thought to leave a comfy cat bed in.
A mackerel tabby gives it her best MGM lion roar. Or perhaps just a yawn before having another nap.
A mackerel tabby keeping cool lying on the floor. Usefully she can also hear if the footsteps of one of the giants are approaching the treat jar in the kitchen.
A mackerel tabby looking into the camera lying on her side on the floor. If she was any cuter the photographer would have melted.
A mackerel tabby keeping cool with her ear to the ground. Perhaps listening out for the almost imperceptible opening of the treats.
A mackerel tabby lying on the floor to keep cool as best she can. And with one ear to the ground she can also hear when giant footsteps are moving towards a source of cheese or biscuits.
A mackerel tabby lying on the floor chasing the cool. Keep low and cool cats, low and cool.
A mackerel tabby looks up from the blanket on the sofa, somewhat annoyed to be woken by a camera shutter, again. Behind her sister snoozes on, trying to minimise the time she spends awake between meals x
A mackerel tabby, Molly, back resting in her her magic portal (cardboard box), perhaps it will work as a time machine and make the gaps between mealtimes shorter.
A mackerel tabby curled up on the edge of a blanket, time, almost for a snooze.
A mackerel tabby in a square cardboard box with a round window. She’s reaching out with her right paw and roaring like the MGM lion, or perhaps it’s a stretch and yawn.
At the allotment, a bumble bee on flower with a small ant climbing up her leg. Doing more for those who share her planet than quite a few people you might name.
A close up of a mackerel tabby showing just her left eye and the tip of her nose. Having got so close, could you give me a little nose scritch, she whispers.
A close up of a bumble bee climbing up a flower. Her wings tidily folded, antennae extended.
A mackerel tabby pops her head up through a round hole in top of a cardboard box. She looks curious, mostly as to why it’s not yet time for another meal? Am I not cute, and deserving of at least a little cheese?
A mackerel tabby sitting up on a blanket looking questioningly straight into the camera. Fix everything giant, fix it all right now, starting with snacks for me and my napping sister x
A old and patched brick wall in Borough, London, with a metal sign reading ”commit no nuisance”. Underneath it a couple of line draw grafitti critters seem to suggest that maybe nuisance might be quite fun.
A mackerel tabby looks up at the camera from a multicoloured blanket. She has one paw stretched out in front of her.
Screen grab of an iPhone shared album called Freya & Molly with 5,000 items in it. The top photo is a mackerel tabby in a cardboard box having a good yawn.
A mackerel tabby curled up thinking about having a snooze on the cushions on the back of the sofa, or maybe, just maybe, this giant might believe in second breakfasts? Do you giant?
An brown and cream alpaca at Vauxhall City Farm, looks (perhaps, it’s hard to tell with that much fringe) at the camera and pricks up one ear.
A close up of mackerel tabby curled up with her forehead upside down on the blanket. She’s looking at you with one eye and wondering if you could manage a belly rub and then go find some biscuits.
A headshot of a mackerel tabby licking her nose, with her left front paw raised. Fluff maintenance is almost a full time job, what with naps, meals and critical belly rubs.
A mackerel tabby sitting on the top level of the cat tree, pondering the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Or perhaps whether there are any badly secured treats in the kitchen…
A mackerel tabby has a stretch at the top of her cat castle, to snooze some more, or not, she wonders.
A mackerel tabby on a platform on a cat tree, front paws wrapped around the pole, all jaws open and crazy eyes for some coloured feathers and a bit of foil on a stick. Play time xxx
A mackerel tabby sitting up in a classic cat position two straight front legs, tail-wrapped-around-covering-her-paws on the sofa. There’s some monstera leaves behind and she’s pretty sure that, no those scratches on the sofa are nothing to do with her, perhaps it was her sister? or maybe it just ‘came like that’.