{"id":1441,"date":"2013-04-28T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2013-08-27T07:40:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T11:40:05","slug":"capture-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2013\/04\/28\/capture-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Capture Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2013\/04\/28\/capture-life\/cottage-960-capture-life\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1442\" alt=\"cottage 960 capture life\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cottage-960-capture-life.jpg\" width=\"456\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cottage-960-capture-life.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cottage-960-capture-life-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cottage-960-capture-life-326x300.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Photo credit: Maureen Nichols, Cottage 960<\/p>\n<p>Is it that you don\u2019t know how things work for me?\u00a0 Picture this (pun intended)\u2026I\u2019ve got a great camera, Nikon, I\u2019ve got perspective, someone once told me, and I\u2019m not using it.\u00a0 Why the hell not?\u00a0 Who the hell knows?\u00a0 I believe, no, I know like I know that it\u2019s the getting started that\u2019s got me.\u00a0 So\u2026.I put it out there and it\u2019s just amazing what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Maureen at Cottage960 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottage960.com\">www.cottage960.com<\/a> ) puts a really cool new pendant on her FB page of a woman in a beautiful 1940\u2019s era suit, that alone was right up my alley, snapping a picture with her brownie camera.\u00a0 On the back it says, \u201cCapture Life\u201d.\u00a0 You know I own it now, right?\u00a0 When I take the girls to get groomed the cashier says to me, \u201cSo when you capture life, what are you going to do with it?\u201d\u00a0 Here I am back at who the hell knows.<\/p>\n<p>Then I get an email from a blog I follow called Super Hero Life (<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superherolife.com\">www.<b>superherolife<\/b>.com<\/a><\/cite><cite> )<\/cite>\u00a0\u00a0 Subject:\u00a0 Sad bananas and finding our joy again.\u00a0 Ok, I\u2019m listening.\u00a0 Andrea Scher, creative force behind Super Hero Life is sponsoring a Treasure Hunt course starting May 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 For a small fee (from the email):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A creative photo prompt each day in your inbox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Photo tips + creative musings to inspire your work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A warm, encouraging community space on\u00a0Flickr\u00a0to\u00a0share your work and support your fellow treasure seekers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come on that\u2019s perfect and I am in.\u00a0 I\u2019m all about sparking creative juices.\u00a0 So I\u2019m signed up and looking forward to getting back into my camera and my perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I\u2019m reading something on Upworthy.com and there\u2019s a tiny little glimpse of an ad for this movement, seminar, thing called One Picture Saves a Life.\u00a0 You can sign up for a seminar at St. Hubert\u2019s Animal Welfare Complex (<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sthuberts.org\">www.<b>sthuberts<\/b>.org<\/a> )<\/cite> to learn how you can become a volunteer to photograph shelter dogs to bring them closer to adoption.\u00a0 Send an email and if there\u2019s room, first come first served, you\u2019re in\u2026for free\u2026being taught by Seth Casteel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlefriendsphoto.com\">www.littlefriendsphoto.com<\/a> ) of Underwater Dogs fame.\u00a0 You know I sent the email, you know I got invited.<\/p>\n<p>So Saturday morning I take a ride to Madison NJ to St. Hubert\u2019s and participate in this seminar that blew me away.\u00a0 Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onepicturesaves.com\">www.onepicturesaves.com<\/a> to get the full story.\u00a0 Suffice to say Seth Casteel is an awesome dude, and all of you know I never use the word dude. Generous with his knowledge, he (along with Petfinder, Greater Good, the Animal Rescue Site, and John Paul Pet) put this program together down to the last detail.\u00a0 He even tells you what lens you need, camera settings, best backgrounds, shelters looking for volunteers.\u00a0 I tell you I am stoked about this\u2026.who better than me, one part of Two Aunts and a Chevy fame to take this on.\u00a0 It was a great way to spend a Saturday morning, learning with like-minded people, about how to help shelter dogs when you\u2019re condo association says you can only have a minimum of two dogs.\u00a0 I hope the other half of the Two Aunts and a Chevy is listening\u2026just saying Toots you hated Chevy\u2019s picture too.\u00a0 But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is I don\u2019t have the lens, 50mm straight, and you know I looked on line and they cost a small fortune.\u00a0 So I think let me go down to Bergen County Camera ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergencountycamera.com\">www.bergencountycamera.com<\/a> ) and just look, \u00a0yeah right.\u00a0 Do you know what downtown Westwood, NJ is like on a Saturday afternoon? It\u2019s sunny and perfect for a day in one of the best downtowns around so it\u2019s jammin.\u00a0 Oh come on, you know I got a parking space, you know there was an hour left on the meter and you know like you know that BCC had a used 50mm for $79.00.\u00a0 Of course they did, my sister is saying as she reads this.<\/p>\n<p>My two most willing (not really) subjects (victims) Toto and Lina are being snapped a frame a second. They are giving me the Moooooooom look.\u00a0 They are taking themselves to bed and having no more of it.\u00a0 Not to worry I will find other willing (maybe) subjects to snap.\u00a0 I know like I know that as Karma would have it anything animal related, carried out for their greater good, will only serve to increase your personal Karmic equity.\u00a0 I will be golden my friends\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: Maureen Nichols, Cottage 960 Is it that you don\u2019t know how things work for me?\u00a0 Picture this (pun intended)\u2026I\u2019ve got a great camera, Nikon, I\u2019ve got perspective, someone once told me, and I\u2019m not using it.\u00a0 Why the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2013\/04\/28\/capture-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,193,6],"tags":[285,254,250,249,260,261,251,258,248,256,255,252,257,259],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-company-of-women-2","category-ordinary-pet-legacies","category-pause-points","tag-andrea-scher","tag-bergen-county-camera","tag-cottage-960","tag-inspiration","tag-karma","tag-karmic-equity","tag-maureen-nichols","tag-one-picture-saves-a-life","tag-photography","tag-seth-casteel","tag-st-huberts-animal-wellfare","tag-super-hero-life","tag-underwater-dogs","tag-westwood-nj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27hQ5-nf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}