<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the New York Daily News at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/c473cpg">http://tinyurl.com/c473cpg</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Russian photographer Andy Prokh captures cute camaraderie between child and cat Lilu </b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The black and white pictures show the adorable friendship between his daughter, Katherine, and the family's British shorthair cat.</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div id="story" class="" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle" itemid="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/cat-daughter-pictures-andy-prokh-russian-photographer-show-wonderful-friendship-article-1.1312800" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto !important; text-align: left; "><div class="story-img" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" itemid="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1312794!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/cat11n-10-web.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img title="Andy Prokh has captured the heartwarming friendship of his little girl and her cat, shown here in "Friendship Home," left, and "Curiosity and Caution." " height="318" itemprop="associatedMedia" alt="
Andy Prokh has captured the heartwarming friendship of his little girl and her cat, shown here in "Friendship Home," left, and "Curiosity and Caution."
" width="635" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1312794.1365693604!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/cat11n-10-web.jpg" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></div><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;">Andy Prokh has captured the heartwarming friendship of his little girl and her cat, shown here in "Friendship Home," left, and "Curiosity and Caution."</span></h4></div><div class="story-rail p402_hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px; float: right; "></div><div class="story-body p402_premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They are quite the photogenic pair.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Saint Petersburg, Russia-based photographer Andy Prokh, 44, has been chronicling the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">charming relationship of his little girl and the family's cat in a series of black and white photos. The whimsical and playful pictures feature Prokh's daughter, Katherine, and LiLu Blue Royal Lady, a grey British shorthair cat, doing everything from catching witches to reading.</span></p><div class="story-img" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Katherine and LiLu have fun with food in " the="" jugglers,"="" left,="" and="" "the="" carotene.""="" title="Katherine and LiLu have fun with food in " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1312796.1365621915!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/cat11n-7-web.jpg" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></div><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;">Katherine and LiLu have fun with food in "The Jugglers," left, and "The Carotene."</span></h4></div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You should shoot what you love,” Prokh told the Daily News. “I love these two models very much.”</span></p><div class="story-img" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Prokh’s little girl and the family cat star in his photographs “How to catch a witch,” left, and “How to make a masterpiece.”" title="Prokh’s little girl and the family cat star in his photographs “How to catch a witch,” left, and “How to make a masterpiece.”" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1312799.1365621921!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/cat11n-1-web.jpg" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></div><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;">Prokh’s little girl and the family cat star in his photographs “How to catch a witch,” left, and “How to make a masterpiece.”</span></h4></div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prokh said that he has been taking pictures of Katherine, now 4, and 6-year-old LiLu since the little girl was born.</span></p><div class="story-img" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Two more charming black and white photos of Katherine and LiLu: " paint="" it="" funny,"="" left,="" and="" "bohemian="" rhapsody="" performed="" by="" cat.""="" title="Two more charming black and white photos of Katherine and LiLu: " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1312797.1365621918!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/cat11n-5-web.jpg" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></div><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;">Two more charming black and white photos of Katherine and LiLu: "Paint it Funny," left, and "Bohemian Rhapsody Performed by Cat."</span></h4></div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“They live and grow together, I just have to do is press the shutter button on the camera,” Prokh said.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's clear from the pictures that they have a lot of fun together.</span></p><div class="story-img" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Prokh said he's " always="" believed="" a="" photographer="" must="" love="" what="" he="" shoots."="" it's="" hard="" not="" to="" this="" dynamic="" duo,="" shown="" here="" in="" "champion="" jump"="" and="" "saudek's="" hiding.""="" title="Prokh said he's " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1312798.1365621920!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/cat11n-3-web.jpg" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></div><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;">Prokh said he's "always believed a photographer must love what he shoots." It's hard not to love this dynamic duo, shown here in "Champion Jump" and "Saudek's Hiding."</span></h4></div></div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div><div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>