This week, President Donald Trump riled up the outdoor conservationists (among many common citizens) by signing an executive order that orders Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review National Monuments containing more than 100,000 acres that were created by previous presidents over the past 21 years. The acts by presidents protecting these large swaths of land was, according to Trump, “an egregious abuse of power” and a “massive federal land grab”. We take a closer look at some of the National Monuments that could be in jeopardy of being downsized, or, even worse, completely abolished by this executive order. And we start with not only the most recent but the most controversial, Bears Ears National Monument. Bears Ears National Monument – UtahDuring eight years in office, President Barack Obama created 34 National Monuments, which protects a staggering 550 million acres of federal land and water. And he saved his biggest splash for last, as he created the Bears Ears National Monument in Southeast Utah during his waning days as president. The Monument is over 1.3 million acres, which is bigger than all five of Utah’s National Parks combined. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch penned this op-ed in the Washington Post about the “disaster”. The monument is named after twin buttes that rise to 8,700 feet called the Bears Ears and the entire area is sacred to many Native Americans. Look for this monument to be at the centerpiece of the coming legal battles if the Trump administration begins to roll back previous presidents actions.
Canyons of the Ancients – ColoradoThe 176,056 acres of archaeologically-significant landscape of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwest Colorado is part of the National Conservation Lands, 32 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The purpose of this special group of lands is ‘conserve, protect, and restore these nationally significant landscapes recognized for their outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values.’ Canyon of the ancients is home to over 6,000 archeological sites, many of them Ancestral Puebloan ruins.
Grand Canyon – Parashant National Monument – ArizonaParashant National Monument is remote. So remote, that the National Park Service claims it is one of the best locations in the United States for star gazing. Located on the northern edge of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the 1 million acre monument is bigger than the state of road island, but unlike road island, it has no paved roads or services, so if you visit, make sure you are prepared.
Ironwood Forest National Monument – ArizonaNamed after the long living Ironwood tree which inhabits this 188,619 acre monument in Arizona, the land is also home to endangered plants and animals as well as over 200 Hohokam and Paleo-Indian archaeological sites.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument – ArizonaLocated in Arizona, just south of the Utah state line lies one of the most well known National Monuments, 17-year old Vermilion Cliffs. Perhaps best known for ‘The Wave’, a sandstone rock formation on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes, the monument covers almost 300,000 acres with altitude ranging from 3,100 to 6,500 feet.
Sonoran Desert National Monument – ArizonaThis 496,400 acre National Monument protects part of the massive Sonoran Desert, which stretches over Arizona, California, and Mexico. The remote location makes for some incredible stargazing.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument – UtahCovering a remarkable 1.9 million acres in Utah, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is massive, and even bigger than the recently appointed Bears Ears, also in Utah. In fact, it is easily the biggest National Monument in the United States, thanks to President Bill Clinton, who formed the monument in 1996.
Berryessa Snow Mountain – CaliforniaFinally, we get into a National Monument in California. The Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument is one of the countries newest National Monuments, only being created in 2015 by President Obama. The 330,780 acres of land stretches from over Northern California from Mendicino county to Lake Berryessa, but oddly enough, doesn’t include the picturesque Lake Berryessa. The fear of backlash from limiting motor boat usage on the lake was enough to keep the Lake out of the monument. Carrizo Plain – California50 miles long and 15 miles across, this massive grassland plain is just 100 miles Northwest of Los Angeles. Right now, the land is in a massive super bloom, as evident by this photo by BLM’s Bob Wick, taken earlier in April. But if you head out to Carrizo Plain, be forewarned. The San Andreas Fault cuts right through the 246,812-acre monument. Giant Sequoia – CaliforniaThis National Monument is a 328,000-acre protected area of the Sequoia National Forest in the southern Sierra Nevada range in central California. The monument includes 38 of the 39 Giant Sequoia groves in the forest, including the Boole Tree, which is 269 feet tall, making it one of the tallest Sequoias in the world. Mojave Trails – CaliforniaThis new Monument could have been called Cadiz Dunes, as these pristine sand dunes are the main focus of the protected area. The Monument, in close proximity to Joshua Tree National Park and the monuments Castle Mountain and Sand to Snow proves this area is a must visit for nature lovers.
Sand to Snow- CaliforniaAlong with Mojave Trails and Castle Mountains, Sand to Snow National Monument was made a National Monument by President Obama on February 12, 2016. It protects 154,000 acres from 1,000 feet at the Coachella Valley to the 11,000 feet in the San Bernadino Mountains. San Gabriel Mountains – CaliforniaMost of the San Gabriel’s mountain peaks reside in this 346.177 acre National Monument, located in Southern California. The movement to have the area made into a National Monument came from calls to protect what remaining open land existed as the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles kept expanding eastward. *Even though the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument meets Trumps Criteria of being over 100,000 acres and created after 1996, USA Today reports that it is not on the White House List. Upper Missouri River Breaks – MontanaSimilar in appearance to Badlands National Park, this land of almost half a million acres contains beautiful rock outcroppings, steep bluffs and grassy plain that run along the Missouri River. Proclaimed a National Monument in 2001 by President Bill Clinton, this land is home to 60 species of mammals and hundreds of types of birds. Rio Grande del Norte – New MexicoThe Rio Grande is a name that lives in infamy. Through countless movies and stories, the words ‘Rio Grande’ always invoked a sense of wild west in all of us. The ‘Grand River’ National Monument was created in 2013 under President Obama and covers 242,455 acres in Taos County, New Mexico and includes the Taos Plateau volcanic field. Organ Mountains-Desert PeaksThis preserve contains nearly half a million acres around the Chihuahua Desert outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico and includes five mountain ranges and cultural sites of interest. They include where World War Two bombers practiced targeting, and the Kilbourne Hole in the Potrillo volcanic field where American astronauts trained for lunar missions in the 1960s. Basin and Range – NevadaIn a state known for its emptiness, prehaps no where is near as empty as Nevada’s 704,000 acre Basin and Range National Monument which protects various mountains and valleys in the southeast of the state. Gold Butte – NevadaThis Nevada monument protects 300,000 acres of pristine desert landscapes northeast of Las Vegas. Attractions include the famous ghost town of Gold Butte as well as Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Lions, and the Mojave Desert tortoise. Cascade–SiskiyouBefore the waning days of President Obama’s tenure, this monument would not have fit the criteria under Trump’s executive order, but on January 12th, 2017, Obama added 48,000 acres to the 86,774 acres that made up Cascade-Siskiyou, which lies in both California and Oregon. Hanford ReachBelieve it or not, there is a location in Washington State that receives only 5-10 inches of rain a year, and that is Hanford Reach National Monument which lies on the Columbia River Plateau. Rose Atoll, Northeast Canyones and Seamounts, Marianas Tranches, Papah?naumoku?kea, Pacific Remote IslandsNot all of the threatened National Monuments live on land. Five of the 25 are mostly ocean based, with millions of acres protecting marine life and plants. via RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230553 http://ift.tt/2oGKyy9
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I see this question a zillion times a week. People email me asking it and its posted in photography Facebook groups constantly. What should I charge for my photography? How much should a shoot be? A print? A frame? I made this video to help you discover what you should be charging. You can watch it below . . .
TRANSCRIPTIONI get it. I really and truly do. When I was first starting out in my photography business I asked these questions too. So I’m not judging you at all. I know all too well how overwhelming it all is and its natural to ask others in the industry what you should charge for this and that or to start looking around at what others are charging and just go with that. But without a doubt this is one of the worst and most damaging questions a new photographer can ask. The question shouldn’t be ‘how much should I charge for my photography?’. The question should be ‘how do I work out what to charge for my photography?’ Just a few slight wording differences make all the difference. That first question screams out ‘I don’t know what I’m doing and I just want someone to give me a quick fix so I can get going.” But the second question says ‘I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m willing to put in some work to find out if someone can point me in the right direction.’ Personally I am much more likely to try and help someone who asks me that second question. Because I simply CAN’T answer the first one and it would be totally unprofessional of anyone to tell you what you should charge for your services or your products when they have no idea what your circumstances are. Let’s say you ask in a Facebook group what you should charge for an 8 x 10 print. You have no idea really about the people who provide you with an answer. One of them might tell you to charge $10 for an 8 x 10. So you go with that. But what you don’t realise is that they have a day job which pays the bills and a partner who earns a great salary. They also work with very basic equipment and very little business overheads at all. They also target clients on a budget who want a quick shoot and a few jpegs. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that – what I’m saying is that this is all very relevant when it comes to what they charge. Let’s say that you are actually in this for the win. You want it to be your full time job so you need a much higher income from your photography than they do AND you plan to invest in great gear and provide superb customer service meaning your overheads are going to be substantially higher too. You also want to target a much higher quality of client who wants a great experience and will invest in beautiful imagery for their home. How can you possibly charge the same for prints as they do? Your circumstances and intentions and ideal clients are worlds apart. It would be like a supermarket and a high-end boutique charging the exact same for a plain white t-shirt. They can’t. Their business models are completely different. But even if you think someone has a similar business model to you – is it ok to ask them what to charge and just do the same? Well, no! Because how on earth do you know if they’ve priced their photography properly? They could be working their fingers to the bone for minimum wage or less for all you know! The correct path to take is the one that requires some work. As soon as you start your own business you become a business person. And a business person would never price anything without doing a very thorough ‘cost of doing business’ exercise. CODB for short. A cost of doing business exercise involves you calculating every single cost you will have attached to doing business across the year. Your equipment, broadband, travel, packaging, insurance, training, everything! You then add that to the salary you want to take from your photography business including tax. This is the amount of money you have to turn over in a year. Then you work out how much time you can devote to your photography business in a year and you divide that by the time you will have to spend on average on each client to deliver the service you want to deliver. That will give you the number of client you can serve well in a year. So you have two important numbers. You have the total turnover your business needs in a year and you have the number of clients you can serve well in a year. All you need to do now is divide those two numbers and you’ll discover the amount you NEED to make from each client to make this business of yours work. Only then can you even think about pricing your products and services. Otherwise you’re just stabbing in the dark and that often leads to disaster. That was a whistle-stop tour of CODB. Pricing is something we go VERY deep into inside the Togs in Business membership. I walk you through every single step of your cost of doing business exercise and then teach you how to price each service and product and package them all together irresistibly. I know you want pricing that makes you a great profit whilst also delighting your ideal clients. I can show you exactly how to make that happen. So check out Togs in Business if you haven’t already. And don’t forget to subscribe! The post What should I charge for my photography? appeared first on Tea Break Tog. via RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230553 http://ift.tt/2pE2Akz |
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