Tell a story

For my image telling a story, I originally had a hard time finding an image that would convey a story, a few of my original images were outside during stormy weather, which, while made for interesting photos, I couldn't quite put a story behind it.

Often now, I work both morning and night shifts, so I get home late and am hardly there- my cat typically waits up on me to come home and bring her upstairs. One of the later nights I came home, she hadn't heard the door (how she typically knows someone gets in) and was waiting super patiently by our tree. 

The stark lighting made for a really cool photo, with some moody lighting.  

In Lightroom I was able to drop some of the colors, blur the background, increase the shadows, and add a vignette, I wanted the Christmas lights on the tree to really shine.

While the story here isn't super evident, I think the theme of waiting in the dark has a good implied story.