Building a photography community has brought the need to acknowledge photographers in their early stages of photography as a business who show exceptional work. Therefore, we are starting the ‘Photographer of the Month’ chosen by the Right Light Photography giving the spotlight to those in our photography community that deserve acknowledgement for their contribution, photography style, and business. Once a month, we will be sharing a BIO, interview, and everything that is special about our chosen photographer! So, keep your eyes open for our monthly photographer of the month and help me introduce our first…
Kendra Stoner
Born in Wyoming, Kendra grew up in a creative family, which started her love for the arts. She remembers her dad and her going out with his film camera to the pastures. They would find “these old run down shacks where people had moved west and deserted them” and would take pictures of them together as they wandered. As Kendra grew up, she formed a love for all types of dance, which brought her even closer to the arts and is part of the reason she believes she has such a good understanding of bodies and shapes in her current photography. While in Wyoming, she met her husband who was a marine and fell in love. When he was stationed in San Diego in 2007, Kendra moved gladly with her husband and packed up all of her creativity and brought it with her too. She found a need to express her creativity when she came here and re-found her love of photography. Now, having been married for five years and in San Diego for four, she still is very close to her family and that brings her the true passion she has for shooting family portraits and capturing those loving moments.
Type of photography: Military home-comings, family portraits, baby photos
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kreativekaptures
E-mail: Kendra@kreativekapturesphoto.com
Phone Number:
1(307) 421-8182An Interview to Learn a little more about Kendra Stoner:
Being such a success and enthusiast AND having such a creative background, the first thing we wanted to know was how Kendra got started up in the photography she does now. She explained how about three years ago, a friend asked if she would do her a huge favor and take photos of her husband’s military home-coming. Fully equipped with Kendra’s favorite point and shoot camera, she did this favor for her friend that sparked a passion. She continued taking pictures and found this was everything she wanted to do! She decided that she wanted to start taking it seriously and her husband saw the love she had for photography and bought her the Canon 60-D she uses today. He told her, if she was going to take it seriously he wanted her to do it right and that is when she became a member of the PIT Program. With the program, she worked with Jason Kirby to mold and improve her photography and her honest amazing business, Kreative Kaptures Photo.
In her field of photography, she focuses on family portraits, military home-coming and baby/newborn photography. As explained in her bio, she always was close with her family, which makes family portraits one of her favorites. She exclaims, “I could shoot family portraits all day!” We asked what she loved about this photography she did and with true love she responded simply, “Capturing emotion.” She explained how in the homecomings she has the chance to see and capture so much raw emotion and affection and she loved shooting so many candids of such beautiful memories.
As a photographer, there is one of the most important questions that just needed to be asked: Are you a Canon or Nikon? And in typical fashion of a true enthusiast, Kendra simply said, “I love my Canon 60-D”. With photography, there are so many pieces of equipment, we inquired what her favorite piece was and she was quick to reply that her 50mm 1.4 lense was her everything, giving her great depth of field and always producing fantastic photos.
To end this lovely peek into Kendra Stoner, we wanted to know what the future held for her. As she leaned back in her chair and thought with a smile, she described a life where she would continue doing the job she had now full-time. She wanted to still be involved in the photography world and wanted her company to develop more and be a household name in capturing these memories. All she wanted was to be able to continue capturing and sharing memories with people.
Overall, Kendra showed an extreme love and passion for what she does and a promising future in photography. This is why we are happy to name her our first- Photographer of the Month! Congratulation’s Kendra!
