99: Nancy discusses Wings of Rescue flight, Harold talks animal photography

In today’s episode, Nancy shares her experience helping transport 14 dogs from Livermore Airport in California to Idaho with the organization Wings of Rescue. The Front Street Animal Shelter transported 25 dogs!

Harold shares some of his thoughts on shelter animal photography for the beginner photographer.

Resources for Nancy’s discussion on Wings of Rescue

Contra Costa Animal Services

http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/59/Animal-Services

Front Street Animal Shelter (City of Sacramento)

http://www.cityofsacramento.org/general-services/animal-care

Idaho Humane Society

https://www.idahohumanesociety.org

Ric Browde of Wings of Rescue was our guest on episode 54

http://www.thisispawprint.com/54-ric-browde-wings-of-rescue-20000-pets-flown-and-counting/

Dr. Peter Rork of Dog is My Co-Pilot was our guest on episode 50

http://www.thisispawprint.com/50-peter-rork-dog-is-my-copilot-up-in-the-air-for-animal-rescue-welfare/

René Kaiser-Riley with Summer Mae Photography photographed the dogs’ landing in Idaho.

Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/summermaepics/?pnref=lhc

Photo Credit, thanks to Cindy Smith of Wings of Rescue

 

Resources for Harold’s discussion on shelter pet photography

A great introduction on how to photograph dogs and cats at a shelter.

Seth Casteel’s photography tutorial, “How to Photograph Shelter Pets”

https://youtu.be/1E0DLWQl4Ag

Some of the equipment Harold mentioned

Canon Rebel XTi Canon 50mm lens (f1.8 Aperture) Six clamp lights Six LED light bulbs (100W equivalent, Daylight) Cooking Parchment Paper Binder Clips Folding Chair for a portable place to clamp the lights

Previous photographer guests include

Rebekah Nemethy (episode 15) Barbara Brady-Smith (29 & 30) Adam Goldberg (76) Tom English (55) Sophie Gamand (episode 74, and creator of #PitBullFlowerPower)

You can also look into HeartsSpeak’s Perfect Exposure Project, which helps provide a wealth of resources to animal shelter organizations. You must apply first.

http://heartsspeak.org/perfect-exposure-project/ If you want to join our animal rescue community and receive two free bonus dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/

All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is a musician based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton

If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000

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