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Season 3 - Episode 106 - The camera can teach us so much · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So today I want to talk to you
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  about cameras. You probably saying why are we
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  talking about cameras on this? Well, any of you who know me and
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  have followed me for any period of time know that I'm a little
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  obsessive with taking pictures, whether it's my iPhone or my
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  Canon. I really am into my cameras and
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  taking pictures with them because it's part of a
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  mindfulness practice for me where I use them to notice small
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  things. And I look for great shots and
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  seeing things, whether it's in my chickens, flowers, the plants
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  we grow out here on the farm, whatever it is that we're doing,
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  there's always part of me that's very focused on that.
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  But today I I want to talk to you about what you can learn
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  from focusing on the attributes that a camera can bring to you.
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  And I know that sounds really strange, but when you start to
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  think about it, cameras teach you so much and in the process
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  of of of being, you know, aware of the camera aspects, the
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  camera actually gives you this ability to focus on what's
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  important, right? So think about this.
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  You have your camera. You don't focus on what's
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  unimportant. You focus on what's important.
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  You focus on what's in in your line of sight, what you want to
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  hone in on. And isn't that what we do when
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  we're talking about our life and our goals?
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  We want to focus in on something that's important to us.
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  So you have to choose carefully what you focus on and what your
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  intent of the subject is. And most of the time we are
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  trying to capture good stuff. We're trying to take pictures of
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  great things. We're trying to get just that
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  right shot. Most of us, unless we're news
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  photographers and not looking for the bad things, we're trying
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  to capture great pictures of our family.
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  We're trying to capture great pictures of what's going on
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  around us, memories, you know, and this is so important in our
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  lives. Like, if we're focused on this,
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  think about that. You want to focus on the good
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  stuff. You want to say to yourself,
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  wow, I want to be like the camera today.
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  I'm going to focus on the good stuff.
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  Inevitably, you're going to take a crappy shot.
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  There's no question about it. I take lots and lots and lots
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  because having a digital camera, you can take a ton and you don't
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  have to worry about it. You don't have to take those
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  pictures and take film and have it developed like you did in old
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  school days, and you can just trash those pictures and start
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  all over again. The beauty of digital art, it's
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  just, you know, there's something to be said for old
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  school art and there's something to be said for digital art
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  because it is fun to be able to just take hundreds of pictures.
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  And I do that with my chickens. I mean, people look at pictures
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  and they'll say, wow, that's an amazing shot.
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  Well, you're seeing one of many hundreds that I took in order to
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  get that one shot in that right position with the right lighting
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  across their eye or their face. So, you know, you've got to be
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  willing to sit there and say to yourself, Yep, I I'm very aware
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  of the fact that I'm going to have shots that just don't work.
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  I'm going to have things that are just bad shots.
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  And that's OK because I'm still going to continue to take
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  another shot and wow, what an important lesson in life, right?
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  Take another shot. Don't try to complicate things.
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  Just take another shot and at some point you're going to get
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  exactly what you're looking for out of them.
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  And if it means that you have to move over a millimeter and take
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  that shot, you do it. I mean, that's what I do
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  constantly. Because that one little shift,
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  that one little different perspective, I can tell you one
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  of the things that I learned in when I was in art school that
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  really, like, elevated my photography.
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  Not that this is a photography lesson, but it was.
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  Hey, don't just stand up from your own perspective.
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  Whatever height you are, squat down, get low on the ground,
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  stand on top of something else, take a different angle.
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  And isn't that true in life, about perspective in general?
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  Don't just take it from one point of view, Look around.
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  Try to find multiple perspectives that you can see
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  something from, because that's the power in changing your view
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  about whatever's happening in your life.
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  And it's the lesson in the camera to get a good shot,
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  change your perspective. Because God knows the moment you
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  do that, you get an amazing, amazing outcome from it.
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  And you know, here, here's the thing, No matter how many bad
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  shots you take, no matter what is out there, when you're
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  dealing with the, you know, art and you're and you're creating
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  with a camera, the fun thing is that sometimes those mistake
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  shots actually turn out to be really silly, especially when
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  you look at them in a series. So the lesson is when you're in
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  life, when you're looking at all of this and you're saying, wow,
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  that that seemingly was a bad shot, but that led to this and
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  that led to this and that led to this, and you can see how it
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  leads up to the good shot. So those bad shots in a line up,
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  when you have the perspective to look at it in a line changes
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  everything and that's what you need to do for yourself.
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  So today's lesson be like the camera and I will add this in If
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  you do not have a mindfulness practice that includes taking
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  pictures with your phone add this one in because I promise
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  you it will absolutely thrill you to walk around and say what
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  are the cool things that I can take pictures of today that no
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  one else notices. I spend all my time on the phone
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  during the day walking around talking to clients and I'll tell
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  you I'm probably on average take about 20-5 shots a day of
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  different things that I notice as I'm walking around.
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  It could be something as simple as my shoes.
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  It could be something as fabulous as a blooming flower.
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  It could be anything that I see. But the great part is I'm always
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  looking and honing in on something creative and it really
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  does make your brain become more attuned to that creative
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  process. So I'm going to throw down that
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  challenge. I hope you guys have an amazing
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  day. And remember, be like a camera
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  and I will see you all tomorrow. Have a great day.
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  Bye.