Kari’s Musings About Photography

You know the tasty granola bars you see at the grocery store called LUNA Bars?  Of course, you do.  Well, for the last three years, I have had the pleasure of being the team photographer for the Seattle Mountain Bike Team sponsored by LUNA.  It’s been great experience for me to work with a large group of cool women and also get to shoot in several of Seattle’s iconic parks including Gas Works, Green Lake and most recently the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park.

The Team LUNA Chix program began in 2001 and its goal is to get women of all skill levels to participate in sports.  Each year, each team across the U.S. also hosts fundraisers for The Breast Cancer Fund and to date have raised nearly $300,000 for this important cause.  To learn more about the LUNA – Breast Cancer Fund relationship or active steps we can all take to help prevent breast cancer, visit www.breastcancerfund.org.

I’m very pleased that they selected my favorite group photo from this year’s shoot and I’m looking forward to next year’s team photographs. Have a great season ladies.  Go Team LUNA Chix!.

Mother’s Day is my least favorite holiday.   I suppose this happens when one’s mother has been gone for nearly 15 years.  However, I still see the value in Mother’s Day and I wish a wonderful day for mothers everywhere.  Being a mother is a full time job and more power to those women who feel the call to do so.  As for me, it’s never truly been something that I’ve aspired to be.

I write a lot about my mother.  I guess it’s simply a matter of the heart growing fonder for what it once had.  My mother was the ultimate giver.  She did not give material things, but she gave of herself.  I miss her hugs, her constant praise and her silliness.  We were good friends at the end of her life.  I could go on for pages, but let’s just say it took a long time to get there and I have no regrets regarding my relationship with her.

Back in 1994, I wrote her obituary and I meant the line that said, “her life’s destiny was to be my mother.”  It really was.  It was a role she loved and thrived in.  She helped shaped me into the woman I am today.  I inherited her open spirit and welcoming nature.  And, I certainly got her smile.

I miss you mom.  I suppose I always will.