I recently blogged about an event that I photographed Wednesday, the Cops in Shops kickoff event for the state of Montana.  The Century Council blogged about it the other day and put up a few photos of the Attorney General Steve Bullock.  I’m going to include a few more that I thought were kinda fun.  One of the police officers posed with his motorcycle in the beer aisle of the Safeway on Broadway looking very stern (he was such a good sport!)…don’t try to fake your age, folks!  We also did a few shots with him acting as a cashier checking someone’s ID.  These may be used on some billboards, too – I don’t know if that’s a for sure thing or not yet, but I’ll let you know as soon as I hear!  In the meantime, here’s the screen grab from the Century Council’s blog…scroll down to the end of this post for the motorcycle photos:

Also – the Chronicle of Higher Education published their story about Susie, the woman whom I photographed in Pablo, Montana.  I took a screen grab – here it is!

And now, some police photos:

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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

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Hi all,

I just got a few sample photos in to demonstrate to clients the quality of products I have available for them.  And holy moly – these samples sure live up to that statement!

The first is a beautifully, beautifully framed 11×14 print (I’m not kidding when I say my jaw dropped upon unwrapping this beauty of a frame), and the second is a gorgeous float-wrapped canvas.  It’s got a thicker “center” in the back of it to help it stand out (or float) from the wall.  Really cool and just so stunning.  This one’s 16×20.

And, one more thing before you get to see the photos, I’m super excited that the very friendly Assistant Photo Editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education contacted me to photograph a story for them up in Pablo, MT.  (I’m freelancing for them – they’re located in Washington D.C.)  I won’t reveal what the story is about until the actual article appears, but it’ll be great I’m sure, and it means I get to spend half a day in Pablo, documenting a day-in-the-life of one of Pablo’s residents.  I’ll post a link to that article when it’s published.  :)

And now I’m off to have a fun Friday evening with friends.

Cheers!

-Kristine

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