Of salmon and fisheyes

I can hold a camera pretty still.
And for that matter, a Glock, an AK or a over-full martini.
After years of practice and coming back to a darkroom -- I'm dating myself here -- with what you hoped was going to be an Pulitzer image, only to discover later while looking at negatives through an Agfa loupe, that there was just too much camera shake in that photo of the firefighter carrying the infant out of the still blazing building while trying to breathe life back into her lungs, to be useable.
Well, maybe that never happened but you get the idea.
I've missed enough shots in my day to learn how to hold a camera still, in low light, heh, in no light.
Heck, with a wide angle lens, I can hand hold down to 1/2 second and longer. Of course that's given I've got some way to prop my elbows against my body or a light pole or a Toyota or I have a public information officer to lean against.
If there's enough light to provide any detail at all, I can get a sharp enough image out of it as long as the subject is still. If the subject is moving around, nothing I can do about that.
Case in point, above.
Sometimes I like to smear colors around.
Mostly, I like things to be sharp, when I want them to be.
Kitties don't like to hold still, especially when they're trying to inhale Friskie's salmon dinner while you have a fisheye lens shoved up their nose.