Call it a Public Service Announcement on Professionalism

[Ahh!]

Caught this just today from a prospective client comments about an area in which we regularly photograph.

"If you're up there and happen to talk to other photographers, please ask them to respect the area so it will remain open to photographers for free. There has been some chatter about making photographers get a permit to shoot (a la Las Colinas), but I keep "shooting" it down. Really, who's going to monitor it? Anyhow, we use to have some display items out on the porch of the log cabin but photographers kept moving things off and not putting them back so they were removed all together. We had the same problem with our Christmas wreaths. And climbing on the train engine is a big no-no. Most people are very respectful, but some just don't care."

The Guilds, Schools, and Conventions present speakers to spend so much time and energy explaining how to use positive emotional words when talking with our clients. We can spoil it with our own behaviors. And if you wish to opine that its all "those people", lets use this as a reminder to ourselves, instead. People notice the little things we leave behind.

[tc95]

Peter...that is good to take away no-mater where you are at...

1. If you move it put it back....
2. Don't climb on things...bring a ladder...or get permission...
3. Be respectfull of your surroundings including other people...

Great post..

[lfmerrell]

All I needed to know I learned in kindergarten

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

(a guide for Global Leadership)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.* See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/*

A PSA framed many years ago when the web was young and not as old.

[Howard Barlow]

Great comments, Peter, thanks for posting. This is counter to the 'ask forgiveness mentality' that is the mark of an amateur and hurts us all.

[ggeen]

Our scout master used to repeat at every campout, leave it better than you found it and we will be asked back.