January 2, 2012
It’s time for the annual Studio D (formerly Moto Photo) “Cutest Pet Contest” starting January 2, 2012, through February 29, 2012. Participants receive a free sitting, plus a 5×7 portrait with a $10 donation to the Tulsa SPCA. All proceeds benefit the Tulsa SPCA, and the Grand Prize, First Place, and Second Place winners will receive cash awards and will also be featured in the May 2012 issue of TulsaPets Magazine.
Hurry on out to Studio D and get your pet’s portrait, while also helping a great local cause!
February 1, 2012
Sign up for a Saks card (or shop with the one that you already have) and Saks will donate 5% of your Saks credit card purchases this February to Tulsa’s Animal Rescue Foundation.
ARF has been finding responsible owners for homeless pets for more than 20 years. Their mission is to rescue pets from area kill shelters and place them in forever homes.
You will need to designate at the register when you check out that you want the donation from your purchase to apply to ARF. Be sure to do this every time you shop at Saks in the month of February!
For more information, please visit www.saks.com/tulsa or call 918-744-0200 Ext. 203
MY NEW LOOK IS FINDING FOREVER HOMES FOR TULSA PETS
February 22, 2012
TulsaPeople’s Cutest Pet Contest – for a $10 donation to the Tulsa SPCA you can enter your pet in TulsaPeople Magazine’s “Cutest Pet Contest,” and if he/she is the grand prize winner, your pet will be featured on the cover of the May 2012 issue! See TulsaPeople.com for more details. Contest ends March 20th.
For your entries to be eligible for the Cutest Pet Photo contest, a $10 donation to the Tulsa SPCA for each entry must be mailed to TulsaPeople by March 20, 2012. Mail to:
Michelle Pollard, TulsaPeople
1603 South Boulder Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74119
Please mail a copy of the entry form and/or applicable release forms with your check. Click here to download the forms.
February 25, 2012
Jog the Dogs & their Tulsa SPCA running buddies will be off to the races again! On Feb. 25th & 26th we’ll be hitting the trails at the Tulsa Running Club’s Post Oak Lodge Challenge! The Saturday Fun Run will be on trails & the Sunday Fun Run will be on roads. Both Fun Runs start at 9:05am & are 1.3 miles long.
Get registered & come on out with your own family pets to hike/jog/walk the beautiful Osage hill country! Share with friends – ALL are welcome! This is the third year Race Director, Johnny Spriggs, has invited us to this fun event – the dogs absolutely love getting out in nature & seeing/sniffing the surroundings! See the link to register & for all the details! http://www.postoakrun.com/
The 2012 TRC Post Oak Lodge Doubler shirts will have the races you are running listed on the right sleeve, on the left sleeve we will list the past doubles you have run at Post Oak. So lets say Larry Macon runs the 50K/Marathon double again this year. 50k/Marathon will be on his right sleeve. His left sleeve will have (50K/Marathon Trail Double, 2010), (50k Trail/Marathon TROAD, 2011). For every year you run the TRC Post Oak Lodge Double you get the previous years achievements on the left sleeve of your technical shirt.
Registration for the TRC Post Oak Lodge Double will close on February 1, 2012. You will be able to sign up for single races up to the day before the race but the only way to get these shirts is to sign up for a “Double”.
The Post Oak Lodge Challenge presented by Fleet Feet Sports Tulsa is directed by the Tulsa Running Club to benefit the Oklahoma Botanical Gardens and the River Parks Authority.
Races begin at the Lodge
March 3, 2012
One of our members, Robert Foshay will be hosting this special Tulsa Animal Shelter Shoot-In event utilizing his experience in pet photography. Here’s what Bob has planned: We meet at the shelter on North Erie just west of Sheridan on Apache at 10:00AM for a short tutorial on techniques I have learned over the past 2 years of taking photos of the dogs and cats at the shelter. We start shooting 10:30am. The shelter doesn’t open to the public until noon, but some of the cleaning crew will still be working. The animals will be in their cages and are free to move around. We will shooting through cages chain link. The lighting is terrible sun light mixed with fluorescent, and mercury vapor. Forget the tripods they only get in the way. The lenses to use are 24-70mm full format sensor or APS-C sensor 16-50mm. On camera flash unit(not the built-in) with light modifier and TTL output control work best. You will get “green eye” sometimes, but it can be Photoshopped out. This shoot will be a test of speed and intuition, more photojournalist then artistic. You won’t have time compose perfectly. You may want to use manual focus because of the chain-link cage. Small apartures(f11 or higher), fixed shutter speed because the strobe, means ISO and a TTL Flash are going to be the choices for exposure control. I will go cover in the tutorial some of the methods to get the dog to “pose”. The areas we will cover are the cat adoption room and the dog room. We will fan out and move around without any preplanned path. I will walk around to answer questions and help as I can. Be prepared to see some animals suffering. Just remember you are going help them find a home.
