Re: Meet 14 Often Overlooked Historic Women In Photography
Vida Hubbert
Rescue adoption portraits. If you follow my social media accounts, you will often notice photos with a tag of an animal rescue. Those portraits are taken for the sole purpose of finding a forever home for the pet. They are invaluable in my opinion. It immediately describes the pet and gives you a visual look into their souls. I have personally seen dogs that have not been adopted in months suddenly get some updated photos and people become interested. This is wonderful news. I love hearing from the rescue volunteers, they saw your photos and called to schedule a meet and greet.
Describe your dog to me, well he has a cute bushy tail and floppy ears. It's extremely hard to describe a dog. They all look unique to me and have interesting characteristics. A nice clean photo of an adoptable animal does wonders for that pet and their chances of getting adopted. Blurry, non professional photos are often overlooked. A professional photo with composition and nice color helps to bring attention.
Over the years of volunteering for various dog rescues, I have personally photographed hundreds of pets in the Las Vegas area. The photos have helped bring awareness to the adoptable pet and sped up the process of finding a forever home.
The majority of the adoptable animals arrive to the shelter and they are dirty, scared, and not in the best shape for a portrait at that time. They often are on a slip lead tied to the wall so that they can snap an intake photo, probably at the worst possible time for the photo to be taken. The caretaker is also trying to move as many pets thru intake as possible. That number could be in the hundreds, daily.
There was a day at the shelter that I photographed over 70 dogs in a two hour window of time. This was important as the photos were immediately used to the benefit of the adoptable dogs. When volunteering with rescues, it's best to work as quickly as possible to get as many portraits as you can. My extensive work with animals helps me to quickly photograph pets in changing outdoor environments.
Rescue Pet photography is extremely rewarding. I often get to meet these wonderful animals and they have only ever showed me love and affection. If I have more time with the pets, I often get to hear the rescue stories. I have personally photographed dogs that have been found running the streets for days. Dogs who have been put on the kill list given hours to live and then rescued, and those dogs seem to know that they were saved. The look of love on the face of a rescued animal is great, they know that they were in a bad place and now it's going to be all better!
Another great qualities of photographing rescues is that I am able to try a few new methods. I will often bring different photography tools and backgrounds. The ability to try various things helps keep my pet photography evolving and unique.
You will notice a link on my website to Animal Rescues, those rescues are some of my favorite in town. Bark Gallery has a few portrait fundraisers for the rescues listed at various times throughout the year.
In the United States and Canada, March is celebrated as Women's History Month, a time for us to reflect on the often-overlooked contributions of women to U.S. history. Keep scrolling for photographs, book recommendations, and links to more information about the important role women have played all throughout history!
Mara Elena Salinas is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. Called the "Voice of Hispanic America" by The New York Times, Salinas is one of the most recognized Hispanic female journalists in the United States. She was the co-anchor of Noticiero Univision, the primary evening news broadcast on Univision, and the co-host of the news magazine program Aqu y Ahora.
Salinas has been working for more than three decades in the U.S. and in 18 Latin American countries. She has interviewed Latin American heads of state, rebel leaders, dictators, and every United States president since Jimmy Carter.
Salinas began as a reporter, anchor and public-affairs host for KMEX-TV, the Univision affiliate in Los Angeles, in 1981. She became the anchor of the national Spanish-language news program Noticiero Univision in 1987.
She has interviewed every US President since Jimmy Carter; Manuel Noriega, the former military dictator of Panama; Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega; and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation spokesman Subcomandante Marcos. She has also interviewed celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin and Gloria Estefan.
Justice Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University finishing at the top of her class. At Harvard University Law School, she became the first woman to join the Harvard Law Review despite facing discrimination based on her gender. She graduated from Columbia University Law School also finishing number one in her class. Justice Ginsburg continued to face gender discrimination in the workplace often being turned down for positions at prestigious firms or being offered less pay than the men newly hired despite her stellar qualifications. Justice Ginsburg went on to become the first tenured female professor at Columbia University.
Kamala Harris was the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to be nominated for a national office by a major party. She was also the fourth woman in history to compete on a major party's presidential ticket. On November 7, 2020, Harris became the first female vice president and first Black person and Asian American to hold the position
In November 2016, Harris handily defeated her opponent for a U.S. Senate seat from California, becoming just the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to enter the Senate. Harris joined the chamber's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee on the Judiciary and Committee on the Budget.
Naomi Osaka is a Japanese-Haitian professional tennis player born October 16, 1997. She has been ranked No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion. Her seven titles on the WTA Tour also include two at the Premier Mandatory level. At the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open, Osaka won her first two Grand Slam singles titles in back-to-back Grand Slam tournaments. She was the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015 and was the first to win her first two in successive majors since Jennifer Capriati in 2001.
Born in Japan to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother, Osaka has lived and trained in the United States since age three. She came to prominence at age 16 when she defeated former US Open champion Samantha Stosur in her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Stanford Classic. Two years later, she reached her first WTA final at the 2016 Pan Pacific Open in Japan to enter the top 50 of the WTA rankings. Osaka made her breakthrough into the upper echelon of women's tennis in 2018 when she won her first WTA title at the Indian Wells Open. Later in the year, she defeated 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams in the final of the US Open to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title. Since 2018, Osaka has won a Grand Slam singles title in four consecutive years. She played a limited schedule in 2021 to focus on her mental health.
Osaka is one of the world's most marketable athletes, having been ranked eighth among all athletes in endorsement income in 2020. She was also the highest-earning female athlete of all time by annual income that year. Osaka has gained significant recognition as an activist, having showcased support for the Black Lives Matter movement in conjunction with her matches. She was named one of the 2020 Sports Illustrated Sportspersons of the Year for her activism largely as part of her US Open championship run and was also included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in both 2019 and 2020. Moreover, she was the 2021 Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she became the first tennis player to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. On the court, Osaka has an aggressive playing style with a powerful serve that can reach 201 kilometers per hour (125 mph).
Beginning in the late 1930s, Johnson taught math and French at schools in Virginia and West Virginia. In 1952, Johnson learned that the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was hiring African American women to serve as "computers;" namely, people who performed and checked calculations for technological developments. Johnson applied, and the following year she was accepted for a position at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. After only two weeks, Johnson was transferred from the African American computing pool to Langley's flight research division, where she talked her way into meetings and earned additional responsibilities. In 1958, after NACA was reformulated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson was among the people charged with determining how to get a human into space and back. For Johnson, calculating space flight came down to the basics of geometry: As a result, the task of plotting the path for Alan Shepard's 1961 journey to space, the first in American history, fell on her shoulders.
The next challenge was to send a man in orbit around Earth. This involved far more difficult calculations, to account for the gravitational pulls of celestial bodies, and by then NASA had begun using electronic computers. Yet, the job wasn't considered complete until Johnson was summoned to check the work of the machines, providing the go-ahead to propel John Glenn into successful orbit in 1962. While the work of electronic computers took on increased importance at NASA, Johnson remained highly valuable for her unwavering accuracy. She performed calculations for the historic 1969 Apollo 11 trip to the moon, and the following year, when Apollo 13 experienced a malfunction in space, her contributions to contingency procedures helped ensure its safe return. Johnson continued to serve as a key asset for NASA, helping to develop its Space Shuttle program and Earth Resources Satellite, until her retirement in 1986.
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