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November 2009 Visitor
From Estonia Her first trip to America included stops in New York City, rural Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Raleigh, and Richmond. Although we had never actaully met or spoke in person, until last week, I've got to watch Kerly grow as a photographer over the past seven years. She has developed a very distinct style, as a street shooter, who places a lot of emphasis on color and compostion. She posesses the one thing that's very hard to teach, she has an artist's eye. She often shoots from the hip without ever raising the camera. You can check out her photography at http://kerly.blogspot.com. I have to claim responsibility for one of her headlines. After I picked her up in Ashville, North Carolina, our first stop in Kentucky was a truck stop for a bathroom break. Before we went in, I explained to Kerly the definition of a Red Neck. But then I told her not to go inside and call someone that, because it would get us whipped. I left the explanation at that. Then she used Red Neck as a headline of the truck stop photo. I told her to leave it because she only printed what I had told her. She didn't mean anything by it. While she was here, my kids and family fell in love with her. She went deer hunting with us in Carter County, went to Keeneland on a photo shoot, and went to Eastern and Berea College with me to give a couple of lectures. She even went to Model Lab School with me for career day. Although every day involved some kind of adventure, we tried to show her how a normal American family with kids live.
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