Photographs that Build Integrity!

imaging solutions that build integrity! http://www.haisliphotography.com/ I recently walked into the offices of a company that has had me shoot extensively for them over the years. In the lobby, throughout the halls and offices and conference rooms, large 24x30 and 30x45 inch photographs are hung from these images. There must be 40 or 50 of these displays. The displays show all aspects of their products and people. You cannot fail to grasp what it is they do and who they are. They design and produce hitech equipment, but what they show on their walls is that they are a company of very dedicated people who work with the highest degree of integrity. The images are also extensively used in their collateral and promotional pieces and websites. I just finished another shoot and display print run of 13 more for them. There is a certain rush that photographers and designers get when they see their work so prominently displayed. But there is one thing that perhaps stands out to me more than anything. It is their integrity and witness. They are a company that really does look out for others, whether it be each other or their vendors or their customers. They always put anothers interests ahead of themselves. I have always strived to do that in my career, but working with them makes me pay even more attention to it. It is the 'iron sharpening iron' that makes us better people when we hang around people that also work to be better and more caring people. James Cash Penney believed and lived the Golden Rule and made it a central part of his company. "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets." Matthew 7:12 The Biblical Golden Rule puts the responsibilty on me to do the good thing to others, whether or not they have done anything good for me. It is not a Quid Pro Quo kind of thing where I only do for others after they have done for me. It is a 'I do for them regardless...' The companies I have most enjoyed working for over the years were active in employing this truth throughout their company and it was exampled from the top down. When we look around and see the erosion of ethics on Wall Street, in Washington D.C. and on Main Street in our own hometown, we find ourselves thinking the world is going to hell in a handbasket, so we ourselves drop our standards. If ever there is a time to demonstrate power and human compassion, it is right now in each of our lives. It has to begin somewhere. Going about our day living the high truth of this is powerful in ways we will never understand until we actually begin to live it. What those 2-dimensional photographs on the walls show are people who are multi-dimensional flesh and blood working to live out this truth. What a pleasure it is to work with them...