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Season 3 - Episode 160 - What can we learn from a camera? · 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 coop.
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  So today I want to talk to you about cameras.
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  You probably saying why are we talking about cameras on this?
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  Well, any of you who know me and have followed me for any period
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  of time know that I'm a little obsessive with taking pictures,
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  whether it's my iPhone or my Canon.
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  I really am into my cameras and taking pictures with them
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  because it's part of a mindfulness practice for me
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  where I use them to notice small things and I look for great
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  shots and seeing things, whether it's in my chickens, flowers,
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  the plants we grow out here on the farm, whatever it is that
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  we're doing, there's always part of me that's very focused on
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  that. But today I, I want to talk to
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  you about what you can learn from focusing on the attributes
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  that a camera can bring to you. And I know that sounds really
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  strange, but when you start to think about it, cameras teach
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  you so much. And in the process of, of, of
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  being, you know, aware of the camera aspects, the camera
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  actually gives you this ability to focus on what's important,
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  right? So think about this, you have
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  your camera, you don't focus on what's unimportant.
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  You focus on what's important. You focus on what's in, in your
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  line of sight, what you want to hone in on.
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  And isn't that what we do when we're talking about our life and
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  our goals? We want to focus in on something
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  that's important to us. So you have to choose carefully
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  what you focus on and what your intent of the subject is.
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  And most of the time we are trying to capture good stuff.
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  We're trying to take pictures of great things.
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  We're trying to get just that right shot.
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  Most of us, unless we're news photographers and not looking
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  for the bad things, we're trying to capture great pictures of our
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  family. We're trying to capture great
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  pictures of what's going on around us, memories, you know,
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  and this is so important in our lives.
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  Like if we're focused on this, think about that.
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  You want to focus on the good stuff.
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  You want to say to yourself, wow, I want to be like the
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  camera today. I'm going to focus on the good
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  stuff. Inevitably you're going to take
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  a crappy shot. There's no question about it.
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  I take lots and lots and lots because having a digital camera,
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  you can take a ton and you don't have to worry about it.
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  You don't have to take those pictures and take film and have
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  it developed like you did in old school days and you can just
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  trash those pictures and start all over again.
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  The beauty of digital art, it's just, you know, there's
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  something to be said for old school art and there's something
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  to be said for digital art because it is fun to be able to
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  just take hundreds of pictures. And I do that with my chickens.
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  I mean, people look at pictures and they'll say, wow, that's an
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  amazing shot. Well, you're seeing one of many
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  hundreds that I took in order to get that one shot in that right
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  position with the right lighting across their eye or their face.
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  So, you know, you've got to be willing to sit there and say to
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  yourself, Yep, I, I'm very aware of the fact that I'm going to
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  have shots that just don't work. I'm going to have things that
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  are just bad shots, and that's OK because I'm still going to
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  continue to take another shot. And wow, what an important
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  lesson in life, right? Take another shot.
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  Don't try to complicate things. Just take another shot.
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  And at some point you're going to get exactly what you're
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  looking for out of them. And if it means that you have to
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  move over a millimeter and take that shot, you do it.
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  I mean, that's what I do constantly because that one
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  little shift, that one little different perspective.
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  I can tell you one of the things that I learned in when I was in
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  art school that really like elevated my photography.
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  Not that this is a photography lesson, but it was, hey, don't
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  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.
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  Look around, try to find multiple perspectives that you
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  can see something from, because that's the power in changing
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  your view 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 do
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  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.
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  And you can see how it leads up to the good shot.
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  So those bad shots in a line up when you have the perspective to
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  look at it in a line changes everything.
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  And that's what you need to do for yourself.
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  So today's lesson, be like the camera.
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  And I will add this in. If you do not have a mindfulness
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  practice that includes taking pictures with your phone, add
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  this one in because I promise you it will absolutely thrill
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  you to walk around and say, what are the cool things that I can
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  take pictures of today that no one else notices?
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  I spend all my time on the phone during the day walking around
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  talking to clients and I'll tell you, I'm probably on average
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  take about 20-5 shots a day of different things that I notice
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  as I'm walking around. It could be something as simple
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  as my shoes. It could be something as
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  fabulous as a blooming flower, it could be anything that I see.
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  But the great part is I'm always looking and honing in on
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  something creative and it really does make your brain become more
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  attuned to that creative process.
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  So I'm going to throw down that challenge.
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  I hope you guys have an amazing day and remember, be like a
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  camera and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Have a great day. Bye.