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<\/a>I was in Seneca Falls, New York, making my way from the visitor center at the Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rights National Historical Park to the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.\u00c2\u00a0 I passed some buildings on the main street that were over 200 years old and still in use.\u00c2\u00a0 These buildings are along the Seneca River and Canal. \u00c2\u00a0Across the canal is the old Seneca Falls Knitting Mill.<\/p>\nElizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the key figures at the first Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Right\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Convention in July, 1848.\u00c2\u00a0 More than 300 people crowded into the Wesley Chapel where the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Declaration of Sentiments\u00e2\u20ac\u009d declaring that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all men and women are created equal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was presented.<\/p>\n
The crumbling mill creates a beautiful image when reflected in the still waters of the Seneca River.\u00c2\u00a0 Puffy clouds surrounded it in the morning but knowing the light would be much better in the early evening I returned then.\u00c2\u00a0 The low angle of the light and the stillness of the water take this image from being a record shot to a beautiful rendition of a surviving part of our past.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The National Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hall of Fame<\/a> is engaged in a vigorous capital campaign to renovate the historic Seneca Knitting Mill.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Wanting to portray the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old and lasting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nature of the building itself I later applied Old PhotoPro to the image (a free app downloaded on my iPhone).\u00c2\u00a0 Although I captured this image many times with my Canon D7 this image was taken with my iPhone.<\/p>\n Using a 400mm lens I was able to be far enough from the marmots to not be intrusive and close enough to get frame filling images.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Get down low so that your lens is at eye level with your subject!\u00c2\u00a0 Voices from history and the wild are unmistakable cries for equality and respect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With each particle of my soul and cells I sensed that the ground on which I was walking was holy.\u00c2\u00a0 Each step seemed heavy, and not because of the heat and high humidity but because of the humming of the … Continue reading <\/a>Mary Ann and Thomas M\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Clintock, Quakers and leaders in the abolition movement, hosted the meeting for the writing of that declaration.\u00c2\u00a0 Relatives Jane and Richard Hunt owned a knitting mill (I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if it was this one) and refused to use cotton in their clothes or any other material in their garments that had been produced by slave labor.<\/p>\n<\/a>Voices from history as well as in nature can energize our own creative vision. The high pitch shriek of a marmot alerted me to her presence as she staved off a hawk above her young.\u00c2\u00a0 I share this Golden Marmot image with you because it is so darn cute (or so I think).\u00c2\u00a0 Marmot mom seemed to really love her offspring!\u00c2\u00a0 Spending a little time observing animal behavior helps you anticipate their movements.<\/p>\n