{"id":24568,"date":"2012-03-16T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=24568"},"modified":"2012-03-15T19:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:01:32","slug":"the-blessing-of-the-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/the-blessing-of-the-click\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of the Click"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the incredible blessings of photography is where it takes you, it\u2019s often to a place you never dreamt of going to. Right now I\u2019m down in Kissimmee, FL getting ready for our Air2Air Workshop at a facility a year ago wasn\u2019t even on my radar screen. A year later and I\u2019ve just finished an amazing dinner with folks I consider the best of friends and it\u2019s all because of a click!<\/p>\n

The Precons for the NAPP Safari come out of my imagination. I have the fun of finding the location and thinking about the possible photography then the true brain, Kathy, Scott Kelby\u2019s personal assistant has to make my crazy ideas work. So far we\u2019re batting a 1000 so I have only praise for Ms. Kathy. I start planning a Precon about 1 year before the actual date which was the case for the Spring 2010 Photoshop World NAPP Safari in Orlando. We had it all set to happen at the Fantasy of Flight. It was all good to go up until a few weeks prior to the event. Then Fantasy of Flight had a double booking occur, so very common but when you\u2019re good, participants never know there was a wrinkle in the plans. Well, Kathy called me and said, \u201cHouston, we have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We needed photography for folks for two hours and since we were doing an \u201caviation\u201d theme with models, of course I wanted to continue with the theme. I was swamped with life stuff at the time so I told Kathy of this place I had heard nothing but good about pretty close by to where Photoshop World was being held in Orlando. So logistically it would work. I had never work with these folks but I was raised on the simply philosophy, \u201cThe least they can say is no.\u201d I told Kathy to use my name in the hopes they might have heard of me. So Kathy called the folks at Stallion 51.<\/p>\n

Recently hired at Stallion 51 unknown to us was the amazing KT. Stallion 51 had never done anything like this, the owner Lee wasn\u2019t even sure what he was having being put in front of him, 60 photographers coming to photograph his P-51D Mustangs with models in tow! That\u2019s an awful a lot to ask of anyone to grasp onto, especially a pilot. But KT was able to explain with the little Kathy was able to present, that this would be good \u201cexposure\u201d for Stallion 51. As one who has been asked to risk a bunch on the mere reward of \u201cexposure,\u201d I don\u2019t blame anyone for saying no to such propositions. To Lee\u2019s and KT\u2019s credit, they said yes and we had a location for our two hour aviation shoot.<\/p>\n

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With the brilliance of McNally\u2019s lighting, the slap stick acting of Russell Brown and the stars of the shoot, the planes of Stallion 51, we had an incredible great time and made some great images. I heard from a majority of the attendees afterwards who admitted that the idea of shooting \u201cplanes\u201d for the day was their last idea of a good time. But afterwards, well two of these folks ditched Photoshop World to shoot and a giant nearby airshow, Sun n\u2019 Fun! And during this whole time, I talked and would become dear friends with KT and the Stallion 51 family.<\/p>\n

Advance the calendar forward year and here I am at Stallion 51 again. During that year I\u2019ve come back many a time to Stallion 51, sometimes just to be social and some of the times servicing them as a client, taking care of photographic needs. And all of this because of a click, a moment with a camera and the sharing of an image coming from that moment. And that is one of the most amazing things that ever comes from photography.<\/p>\n

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Yes, we enjoy those clicks that remind of us of those moment in time that a special. That\u2019s what photography really is all about, not that D4 being delivered at my home tomorrow that I won\u2019t be able to see until Tuesday when I get home. Excuse me, I digressed a moment there. But better than that moment we record for every is the lives we touch and touch ours by that moment. The wise photograph latches onto that and not the miss chosen f\/stop or missed split second of gesture. The wise photographer realizes that it\u2019s the lives their photography touches and then reach back to touch ours is truly why we should be and are photographers.<\/p>\n

There is no way a year ago when I just threw out an idea of a location did I know the people involved, from participants to clients, would a year later become part of my life! No matter how we describe the power of click, this has to be its greatest power, a life altering movement that might start faster than a heartbeat, as fast as 1\/125. So next time you put that camera to your eye and you question the quality of that photograph you are creating, next time question the even bigger picture. Just what will be the blessing of that click?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the incredible blessings of photography is where it takes you, it\u2019s often to a place you never dreamt of going to. Right now I\u2019m down in Kissimmee, FL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-24568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-new"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Podcast.jpg?fit=1500%2C1500&quality=100&ssl=1","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"amazon":{"key":"amazon","url":"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Podcast\/B08JJQC1GR?ref=a_pd_item-n_c0_bc&pf_rd_p=1da7ab30-c785-4a0e-a160-4a7e7077b353&pf_rd_r=EEDMYHQM3DZ05FPRTHMJ","label":"Amazon","class":"amazon","icon":"amazon.png"},"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2fRA9VaVfSdQMKf1ipxr0tipxr0t","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/moose-podcast\/id1107405746","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/moose-podcast","embedCode":"

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