As some of you who have seen my other posts know, I'm particularly interested in photographing rescued animals (pets, wildlife, farm animals etc) and I volunteer for a couple of animal welfare groups. Recently, I created a couple of books through
www.mypublisher.com, gave copies to the founders of the organizations and donated copies to fundraising events as well.
Last week, I got some uplifting news from the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, which hosted its annual Shindig on October 11. They held a silent auction and one of the items available was my book. Apparently, a 10-year old boy became interested in the book and decided to bid on it, using his allowance money. He stood by the book, and re-bid each time someone else entered a bid. As the price went up and up, his mother stayed with him and asked him if this is really how he wanted to spend all the money he'd worked so hard to earn. He said he loved "his friends" in the book and he wanted to keep bidding. (BTW, who repeatedly bids against a kid?) His winning bid was $160 and by that point, a crowd had gathered to watch him and look at the book as one of the volunteers flipped pages to show people the prize.
It's not the $, but I'm just so thrilled and humbled that a person would love the animals and the photos so much that he would make a major sacrifice to have the book. I'm also very appreciative of the way a number of people have gone out of their way in the past week to tell me this story. (Among others, the founder of CAS wrote me a thank you note to tell me about the auction.)
The attached photo is from my latest trip to CAS (and will be included in the next version of the book). This is a photo of gentle Buddy, a blind (and eyeless) horse.
Originally posted by luftfluss 
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