Out of Focus & Out of Patience: Grumpy Vintage Cat on the Art of Photography

By Bob Pardue

A black and white photography humor book featuring a grumpy vintage cat photographer for professionals, hobbyists, and anyone who's ever lost patience behind a camera.

Out of Focus & Out of Patience is a vintage-inspired photography humor book told through the eyes of one relentlessly unimpressed gray-and-black tabby cat. Dressed in 1930s-40s photographer attire and armed with classic cameras, this single feline narrator delivers dry, sarcastic one-liners about the art, frustration, and quiet absurdity of photography.

Each spread pairs a realistic black-and-white portrait with a sharp, photographer-approved observation-covering gear failures, difficult clients, lighting disasters, darkroom struggles, travel mishaps, gallery critiques, and the eternal shortage of patience. The humor is subtle, knowing, and rooted in real photographic experience.

Designed as a gift-worthy paperback, this book is perfect for professional photographers, serious amateurs, creatives, cat lovers, and anyone who appreciates vintage aesthetics and intelligent humor. Whether displayed on a coffee table or flipped through between shoots, it's a reminder that photography has always required vision, timing... and tolerance.

If you've ever muttered at a tripod, waited on the light, or trusted your instincts more than trends, this cat understands you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G7X2PVMF
• ISBN13: 9798278915188
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"