Very nice light/form combo.

From finger prick to infinity!

Good eye for picking this one out.

I like the brighter lighting even more here than the first version. There's heaps of potential for "artistic", even abstract closeups of these guys - prickly squares.

Oh this is Ace! I know the cactus is alive, but so is the image; that cactus is out to get me. Just a smorgasbord of light and forms.

Superb. Love the flare train; I wonder if photographers get a bonus one of them when they see the bright light as they die?

Nah, I was more brutal than that lol; with the bottom right frame corner anchoring the point where the leg colour changes from light to dark. But I can understand your reluctance to forfeit so much delicious light blur at the bottom.

No excuses, you should add this mattress to your collection of photo props. What a totally engaging image! Lovely foreground blur but I'd have been tempted to sacrifice some of it so that the light/dark paw fur boundary links to the bottom right frame corner. Your call of course Either way - just superb. If you ever considered a set of three cat portraits for your new abode, this should be one of them imho.

... with knobs on, but the one next door wins for me wrt imagery.

Ouch!