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My Canon is aimed at homeless animals, help me take a Second Shot.
**UPDATE: FIRST GOAL (LEGAL FUND) MET IN A DAY!!! I am so grateful!
For almost 7 years I have been shooting dogs and cats with my Canon. (I’ve also shot some guinea pigs, a few rabbits, some roosters, a parrot and a pig…but mostly dogs and cats.) If you are wondering why I would do such a thing and brag about it, it’s because shooting rescue animals with my Canon camera saves lives.
If you’re involved in animal rescue, you already know the difference a great photo can make. And if you’re not involved in animal rescue (yet), this is your chance to give thousands of deserving souls a Second Shot at life.
Adoption rates can double and animals are adopted faster when they are given a chance to show their best side. And when one animal is adopted, a second life is also saved…that of the animal that gets to take its place within the rescue or shelter.
6.5 million dogs and cats land in shelters every year and approximately 3.5 million are not given a second shot at a great life.
Animal shelters and rescue groups do incredible work and perform miracles on a daily basis for dogs, cats and other adoptable pets. But unfortunately, most shelters are not set up with the resources (time, equipment or skills) to help them promote the animals that find themselves in their care. In many cases their best shot at a Second Shot comes down to a blurry, poorly lit “intake photo” snapped with a cell phone in a moment when the animal is probably more scared and confused than they have ever been in their life. Truly, NOT their best moment.
Put yourself in their place for just a moment . . . and imagine you are alone and hoping to meet someone new online (just like these homeless pets are doing through websites and social media).
For your profile, do you choose to:
a) Add NO photo at all
b) Take a photo of yourself in a dark room so you are completely obscured
c) Crawl into the corner of a room, and put your head down for an awkward selfie
d) Arrange for a stranger to swoop you up out of nowhere when you are not expecting it and pierce your skin with a sharp object while someone else takes a blurry picture of your frightened face
e) Take a shower, put on some nice clothes, style your hair attractively and take a perfectly lit photo of you smiling and looking directy into the camera so your potential new friend feels like they are looking into your soul?
If you chose e, you are less likely to be sitting home alone next Saturday night than if you had chosen one of the other options. The homeless animals don’t have the luxury that you do to CHOOSE option e on their own . . . and for them it’s not a lonely Saturday evening at stake. For millions of animals, this lack of choice means NO MORE SATURDAY EVENINGS AT ALL. EVER AGAIN.
This is the issue that Second Shot helps to solve.
Every day, thousands of great families are searching through thousands of pictures on the internet, looking for a new furry family member and it is easy to excuse that dark, blurry, snarling animal as one that “wouldn’t fit into our family.”
But give that same animal a chance to relax, to get away from the hustle and noise of intake, give them a bath and a place to get comfy…then take a Second Shot with a good camera and nice lighting. Now that same dog has a smile. . . bright eyes…a wagging tail. Now that dog’s image still speaks a thousand words, but now the words are joy, best friend, hope, love, laughter, loyalty, cuddles, kisses, and warmth.
In rescue, life is just too short for bad photos. In rescue, a good shot might be their ONLY shot at a Second Shot.
My goal is to create a nonprofit 501c3 to support animal rescues and shelters in giving homeless animals a second shot by providing professional photography services to be used in marketing to pet-seeking families.
My goal is to do this FULL TIME, helping any rescue and shelter within my reach (and there are 51 currently in my immediate vicinity alone). And if that doesn’t sound like many…consider that just one of the rescues I support (Stray Animal Adoption Program) saved almost 4,000 last year alone, and that number continues to grow year after year. Yes, that is just ONE rescue.
How will your funds be used?
I am so excited! I met my initial $1,500 goal in just one day! Those Initial funds will be used to cover the legal fees to establish the non-profit entity and apply for 501c3 status (which is needed to apply for grants and accept tax deductible donations). That process now begins and hopefully, Second Shot will be official by July!
This GoFundMe campaign will now contine to accept donations (which will be tax deductible soon) to fund the annual costs of the non-profit. To be sustainable, I will need to receive large grants or support from corporate sponsors, but these initil funds will be used to jumpstart Second Shot as I learn the ropes of this fundraising game! In this first year, my goal is to raise funds to support full time dedication to the mission with minimal overhead cost.
After a successful first year, the goal is to raise enough funds to also purchase a mobile studio to expand reach and provide more convenient studio access to shelters and rescues.
After a successful second year/or the funding of mobile studio (whichever comes first), extra funds would be earmarked for a home base studio location (with year-round accessibility). [I already have a small studio space donated by animal lovers that is functional in the cooler seasons, but not in warmer months.)
I thank you for taking the time to read my GoFundMe request. If you’d like to see some of the animals that have already been given a Second Shot, please visit the photo albums on my facebook page (www.facebook.com/shelterdogphotography). You can see pictures of animals currently available at the shelter and through the rescue, as well as multiple albums filled with thousands of pictures of animals whose lives have already been saved, in part because I shot them with a Canon (to be clear, a Canon camera)!
Second Shot animal rescue photography.
**UPDATE: FIRST GOAL (LEGAL FUND) MET IN A DAY!!! I am so grateful!
For almost 7 years I have been shooting dogs and cats with my Canon. (I’ve also shot some guinea pigs, a few rabbits, some roosters, a parrot and a pig…but mostly dogs and cats.) If you are wondering why I would do such a thing and brag about it, it’s because shooting rescue animals with my Canon camera saves lives.
If you’re involved in animal rescue, you already know the difference a great photo can make. And if you’re not involved in animal rescue (yet), this is your chance to give thousands of deserving souls a Second Shot at life.
Adoption rates can double and animals are adopted faster when they are given a chance to show their best side. And when one animal is adopted, a second life is also saved…that of the animal that gets to take its place within the rescue or shelter.
6.5 million dogs and cats land in shelters every year and approximately 3.5 million are not given a second shot at a great life.
Animal shelters and rescue groups do incredible work and perform miracles on a daily basis for dogs, cats and other adoptable pets. But unfortunately, most shelters are not set up with the resources (time, equipment or skills) to help them promote the animals that find themselves in their care. In many cases their best shot at a Second Shot comes down to a blurry, poorly lit “intake photo” snapped with a cell phone in a moment when the animal is probably more scared and confused than they have ever been in their life. Truly, NOT their best moment.
Put yourself in their place for just a moment . . . and imagine you are alone and hoping to meet someone new online (just like these homeless pets are doing through websites and social media).
For your profile, do you choose to:
a) Add NO photo at all
b) Take a photo of yourself in a dark room so you are completely obscured
c) Crawl into the corner of a room, and put your head down for an awkward selfie
d) Arrange for a stranger to swoop you up out of nowhere when you are not expecting it and pierce your skin with a sharp object while someone else takes a blurry picture of your frightened face
e) Take a shower, put on some nice clothes, style your hair attractively and take a perfectly lit photo of you smiling and looking directy into the camera so your potential new friend feels like they are looking into your soul?
If you chose e, you are less likely to be sitting home alone next Saturday night than if you had chosen one of the other options. The homeless animals don’t have the luxury that you do to CHOOSE option e on their own . . . and for them it’s not a lonely Saturday evening at stake. For millions of animals, this lack of choice means NO MORE SATURDAY EVENINGS AT ALL. EVER AGAIN.
This is the issue that Second Shot helps to solve.
Every day, thousands of great families are searching through thousands of pictures on the internet, looking for a new furry family member and it is easy to excuse that dark, blurry, snarling animal as one that “wouldn’t fit into our family.”
But give that same animal a chance to relax, to get away from the hustle and noise of intake, give them a bath and a place to get comfy…then take a Second Shot with a good camera and nice lighting. Now that same dog has a smile. . . bright eyes…a wagging tail. Now that dog’s image still speaks a thousand words, but now the words are joy, best friend, hope, love, laughter, loyalty, cuddles, kisses, and warmth.
In rescue, life is just too short for bad photos. In rescue, a good shot might be their ONLY shot at a Second Shot.
My goal is to create a nonprofit 501c3 to support animal rescues and shelters in giving homeless animals a second shot by providing professional photography services to be used in marketing to pet-seeking families.
My goal is to do this FULL TIME, helping any rescue and shelter within my reach (and there are 51 currently in my immediate vicinity alone). And if that doesn’t sound like many…consider that just one of the rescues I support (Stray Animal Adoption Program) saved almost 4,000 last year alone, and that number continues to grow year after year. Yes, that is just ONE rescue.
How will your funds be used?
I am so excited! I met my initial $1,500 goal in just one day! Those Initial funds will be used to cover the legal fees to establish the non-profit entity and apply for 501c3 status (which is needed to apply for grants and accept tax deductible donations). That process now begins and hopefully, Second Shot will be official by July!
This GoFundMe campaign will now contine to accept donations (which will be tax deductible soon) to fund the annual costs of the non-profit. To be sustainable, I will need to receive large grants or support from corporate sponsors, but these initil funds will be used to jumpstart Second Shot as I learn the ropes of this fundraising game! In this first year, my goal is to raise funds to support full time dedication to the mission with minimal overhead cost.
After a successful first year, the goal is to raise enough funds to also purchase a mobile studio to expand reach and provide more convenient studio access to shelters and rescues.
After a successful second year/or the funding of mobile studio (whichever comes first), extra funds would be earmarked for a home base studio location (with year-round accessibility). [I already have a small studio space donated by animal lovers that is functional in the cooler seasons, but not in warmer months.)
I thank you for taking the time to read my GoFundMe request. If you’d like to see some of the animals that have already been given a Second Shot, please visit the photo albums on my facebook page (www.facebook.com/shelterdogphotography). You can see pictures of animals currently available at the shelter and through the rescue, as well as multiple albums filled with thousands of pictures of animals whose lives have already been saved, in part because I shot them with a Canon (to be clear, a Canon camera)!
Second Shot animal rescue photography.