AnnMarie Valea, Meredith College Class of 2011
Major: Business Administration
Minors: Economics & Studio Art
I was interested in this course because I have a passion for animals and photography. This course combined the two while directing a purpose for our community and contributing to my experiential academic learning at Meredith College. I enrolled in this course wanting to use my artistic abilities to help animals.
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| I was informed a few days ago from a shelter visitor, that the image posted for Shadow made her come in to see such a handsome cat. This was hard proof that my photography impacts the WCAS in the most positive way. |
The most valuable parts of this course for me were the following: learning how the ASPCA and WCAS were different and why; adopting my first pet due to the animal exposure within this course: a 2 year-old Siamese-mix cat that I have named Stella Blue; learning and applying the Adobe Photoshop CS5 software with my brand new Nikon DSLR 3100 camera and learning how to use photography to better our world.
I did not expect to learn the functionalities of the shelter. For example, I learned how many animal cycles occurred daily and why, how to handle each animal, the importance of sterilization for the shelter, why other volunteers volunteer, I learned why the animals enter the shelter and where they come from the most, I learned my volunteering and photography impacted the shelter but most importantly directly affected dozens of animals. Overall, I learned the ins and outs of animal overpopulation and how to prevent it. These were all things I did not expect to learn throughout this course.
Lastly, photography can most certainly impact animal overpopulation by portraying the causes and effects to our entire community in an educational, thoughtful, and strategic way. Photography can be applied to the shelter’s website, flyers, posters, event planning, and to help exhibit several of the desperate animals who are in dire need of homes.
Your picture of Shadow really is entrancing. It has a great composition that I think fits the name therefore, tying to personality. I'm glad you have enjoyed the class...it seems to be a reoccurring themes in the blogs that we've all taken something from this class that we didn't expect to.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic post! Very well said, and I adore the photo you included of Shadow, and I commend you on helping to save her life! Congratulations to both you and Stella Blue. This post makes me very, very happy and I am so glad you got so much out of this course!
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