K Miller Photographs

K Miller Photographs

One fun thing about being a start-up is working directly with creative folk you enlist to represent your company. Even more fun is discovering them. Now that we have Sam, I’m big into Holiday Cards, as in December holidays, go figure. And last holiday season I decided to go all “professional” and use a photographer, a gal who first helped us set up our splash page, Kim Miller. She had just moved up to Portland from California, and was doing on-the-side web work to supplement income while she pursued her real dream, photography.

After seeing some of her pictures, I was smitten. Her images have soul. Raw yet elegant, delicate, yet forceful in their totality. They make you stop, look, and imagine. And working with her? She’s intuitive, thoughtful, and fun. It is a collaboration, that is for sure.

We used a couple of images she took of our bottled wine on the home page of our new site; we had her over to do some trade shots and whatever else moved her in our Portland backyard, we just let her go. I’ve included some and am trying to decide what to do with the others, they are so beautiful.

And here’s a link to the last shoot we had her do, some family backyard fun. Looking at those pictures, if there’s ever a reason to keep our dream going, and to keep me hanging in there, it’s pretty clear in those images. My favorite is Sam sitting and contemplating life on the edge of his little pool.

And Kim’s dream? She tells me she’s just about to the point of leaving that other pay-the-bills-day-job behind. It didn’t take her long – I’m not surprised.

K Miller Photographs

K Miller Photographs