I’m excited to share the blog’s new look with everyone!  I’ve been wanting to give it an update for a while, but finally had the time over the past few days.  I hope you all enjoy it, as it jives more with the look and feel of my main website.  Plus, I finally admitted to myself, that no matter what I did, or which colors I experimented with, I just totally love the color green – always have, always will.  So.  Green it is!  No more of this gray and red business.  It just wasn’t me! (Of course, no offense to the colors gray and red – I think they’re beautiful.)

I also updated my logo (a little while back) to reflect my personality a bit more – since that’s a big part of how I run my business.  As one woman I spoke with a few weeks back said, “You’re not hokey, you’re honest, and take good shots with your talent.”  And that’s just how I operate – I believe in honesty and being genuine, and that’s how I’m running my business.  I’m all about positive energy, and I feel that my business and my photography reflects that.

But enough of the deep thoughts – I want to talk a bit about my time up in Pablo photographing for the Chronicle of Higher Education based out of Washington D.C.

I headed out bright and early on Wednesday to meet with Susie and follow her around for a day as she attended class at Salish Kootenai College. It was great!  I was a little bummed that it was so foggy (pea soup thick – seriously!) and the Mission mountains were completely invisible (I love them so much!), BUT, Susie has a wonderful, bubbly personality and it was such a pleasure to have the honor of documenting a day in her life.  I met her dog, Chaos (LOVE his name!), who kindly shared some of his food with me by putting it all over my pants leg (oh dogs, what can you do – he was just trying to be social), took a ride with her to school in her truck that was on the verge of overheating, and met all sorts of great folks at the college while we both attended various classes.  Susie was a complete and total sweetie and hugged me as I was about to leave for the day at about 4 p.m.  She called me up the next day to ask me how the photos turned out and also to say, “This has been the greatest experience of my life!”  (Words that make me melt!  Awww!)

The Chronicle liked my work and it should be published within the next week or so.  I’ll keep you posted.

Anyway – it was a great day and so nice keep my photojournalism background fresh.

So, since I have to wait to post photos from Pablo, how about some business card pics?  I did a redesign of my business cards, too, so I thought I’d post a few images of these bright, happy little guys.

Cheers!

-Kristine