Kathleen started as a "pro" photographer at age 14, strapped with an ancient SLR camera, taking photos to ride alongside two-line quotes for man-on-the-street interviews in Williamsburg's dusty but venerable 'Virginia Gazette' newspaper.

On her quest to become a great photographer, she resolved to take 10,000 pretty bad photographs. She began during the early 1990's when our fashion choices were ruining 98% of our photos anyway.

Constantly wearing a camera like an oversized necklace, she learned at high-end studios, dark little photo labs, and high street camera shops. She researched her clients' questions and dug to find the answers to her own questions about how and why photographs look the way they do, learning what makes someone stop in front of a photo and savor the time; 

The magic of aperture and how your eyes isolate and focus on what you love.
Scene compression and what it does to the human form.
Cropping and how it can create drama.
Flare and how it can create...well, flair!

She entered college recording everyone around her, constantly refining her skills. 
Then by a small amount amount of merit (and more than a little dumb luck) she ended up at Oxford.

She studying intensively as a B&W photographer and earned custom museum quality darkroom printing under Cambridge's Peter Goodliffe of the Royal Photographic Society Fellowship.

She had an eye. But more importantly, the experience to draw out reluctant subjects. Thrill is in the challenge!

"The most challenging part is hearing from so many beautiful people who have been hearing that classic copout -  "just not photogenic" - just to mask the ineptitude of their photographers! The reward is so great for showing someone how the people they love see them! The time is well-spent."

email - kathleenandcamera@gmail.com