Day by Day
The Day by Day section is the single best way to experience Kat’s artwork and to get to know the artist. As a writer and photographer, her art is as much about the words as it is about the images. In fact, as many people subscribe to her Shot of the Day for the stories, as they do for the pictures! Here’s how it works: Open any image on this page, and you can read the story while viewing the image. At the end of the story, you can click on the name of the previous/next image/story. By clicking on the name(s), you can walk through Kat’s journey one story at a time. As Kat is fond of saying, “Everybody loves stories. It’s how we relate. Connect. Inspire. What story will your life tell? What story will people tell about you? Only time will tell. Enjoy!”
Going the Distance for Something Bigger than Me
Posted: 13 days ago
“In that season of my life, the things that I once dreaded, avoided and hated the most were the things I craved. Like exercise. I always had to…”
Leading by Standing Still?
Posted: 37 days ago
In the corner of an old building, long forgotten by the owner, stood a pair of black patent leather pumps. Who wore them? Where had they traveled? Why were they there? How long had they been frozen in
Facts Beyond Change
Posted: 60 days ago
A marathon swimmer. My dad was a marathon swimmer. Not in a calm comfortable lap pool or a placid lake. He swam in the Atlantic Ocean in the tumult of the sea. Can you imagine being an ocean marathon …
Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
Posted: 83 days ago
“Walking down the jet way at the airport on my way home from the funeral of a friend, I had this moment where I felt peaceful. I wasn’t thinking about what I was going to do…
Endurance, Quitting and Dips
Posted: 103 days ago
Lance Armstrong, the king of endurance in so many ways, once said: “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute or an hour or a day or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however…
Aim Small Miss Small
Posted: 111 days ago
“Boys, do you remember what I taught you about shooting?” Mel Gibson’s character asked his two very young sons before sending them into battle to…
Thrilled to Announce
Posted: 130 days ago
Love Without Props
Posted: 138 days ago
“Where did you say they were?” I asked the express shipping customer service representative with a bit of urgency in my tone. “Ohio” she boldly replied, as if this was some common…
Perfect is the Enemy of Finished
Posted: 159 days ago
Perfectionism is a curse. Some may try to spin it differently. And I can understand why. Spinning it is far easier than…
Non-Negotiable
Posted: 164 days ago
It’s a fascinating question — what’s non-negotiable in your life? I don’t remember who asked me this question recently, but the impact of it…
Between a Rock and a High Place
Posted: 188 days ago
The expression, “between a rock and a hard place” is a strange one. Like most expressions, they roll
T.O.D.A.Y. Could Be a Symphony
Posted: 194 days ago
She was in a dangerous part of the country. Somewhere in South America. Poor drug addicted kids surrounded the car peering in for whatever they could steal…
Happy Father's Day Mom -- My Hat's Off To You
Posted: 207 days ago
A few years ago I learned that my older sister sends my mom a Father’s Day card on Mother’s Day.
Unedited Beauty in a Heavily Edited World
Posted: 215 days ago
This image is unedited. Just as it was captured by the lens. No cropping. No sharpening. No Photoshop. Not that there is anything wrong with…
Dead at 40, Buried at 85
Posted: 224 days ago
I heard a great sermon that described most of humanity as dead at 40 and buried at 85. A world where…
Windows and Doors to the World
Posted: 237 days ago
Invisible Cows
Posted: 243 days ago
So this pastor goes with a student to a farm. The family was very poor and when the father opened the door, the pastor asked how they were…
Above the Clouds
Posted: 243 days ago
Asking the Right Question
Posted: 264 days ago
“Unless you ask the right question, Hawaiian people will generally not offer an answer,” declared the cultural expert. As I pondered this mystery, she…
Surprised By Life
Posted: 273 days ago
Just about the first time you do anything, it has a sense of wonder to it. A moment where you are surprised by life. Where delight meets wonder and your breath is…
Wonder
Posted: 283 days ago
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at…
Mahalo
Posted: 283 days ago
Mahalo, a Hawaiian expression of gratitude, has a deeper meaning to the natives. Broken down by an elder, Mahalo translates like this…
Blue Like Jazz
Posted: 311 days ago
From the book, Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller: “I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theatre in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that, I liked jazz music…
Walk With Me...
Posted: 327 days ago
Shoes, lots of shoes together like this, remind me that we’re not alone on this journey. How many shoes have traversed the earth? Walked a similar path? Seen similar…
Dreams Don't Have Legs!
Posted: 337 days ago
My wish in 2008 is that life would become passionately practical for us all. Not that we would dream and never move forward in our desires but that we would give our dreams a vehicle in which to ride, legs on which to walk…
Book Release!
Posted: 347 days ago
Dead Sea, Before and After
Posted: 350 days ago
Learning Out Loud
Posted: 350 days ago
Kids have a funny way of making us think about bigger questions. Things that you’ve long since stopped trying to…
Anachronism
Posted: 361 days ago
The World Between the Seconds
Posted: 366 days ago
The Artist is Nothing Without...
Posted: 378 days ago
“The artist is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without the work.” Emile Zola, who lived from 1840 to 1902, captured this…
Stopping to Ponder
Posted: 388 days ago
We just rarely do. Stop to ponder the meaning of it all. In a foreign country where your senses are so elevated, it’s so much easier to see…
Rediscovering Wonder
Posted: 388 days ago
This man in Safed, an artist community in Israel and the home of Cabbala or Jewish mysticism, was lost in the act of noticing. Noticing the small…
Angel Eyes
Posted: 394 days ago
As I photographed this stranger in Nazareth, I thought of those words my mom often lives…
Zippori Horse
Posted: 398 days ago
This pony, over-layed with a screen of a famous mosaic of a woman, combines the ancient with today. Israel is so…
Our Greatest Fears
Posted: 412 days ago
I’m not sure our greatest fear is that we will suffer, or even that we will die. I think man’s greatest fear is…
Everybody's Normal Until...
Posted: 425 days ago
In his book, Everybody’s Normal Till You Get To Know Them, John Ortberg describes a society that has so isolated itself, so removed itself from accountability, so…
Standing on Glass
Posted: 439 days ago
“There was something incredibly fragile about the Holy Land. Like standing on glass. Literally I stood on reinforced glass looking down at…”
Through His Eyes
Posted: 452 days ago
For a life time, I’ve read stories of Moses and Abraham, Ruth and Esther, John and Jesus. My eyes seem to rush past words like Canaan, Dead Sea, Mt. Moriah, Capernaum, Galilee, Meggido, Tiberias, Gethsemane and the River Jordan as if they are parts of a distant fabled land made up to…
Off To Israel
Posted: 467 days ago
Live! Before It's Too Late
Posted: 472 days ago
Twain once said “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did…
R EVOL UTION
Posted: 474 days ago
I never noticed this. The word revolution contains the word LOVE spelled backwards. Love thy…
All of Us
Posted: 478 days ago
Just returning from a conference called Lead From Where You Are, I was moved beyond logic when I heard…
Dive!
Posted: 482 days ago
Lesson learned: sometimes to walk on water, you’ve got to get back INTO the boat after falling out into a Class 5 rapid! It helps to…
To What End?
Posted: 492 days ago
I love Steven Covey’s story about the man who is climbing like mad. Climbing, climbing, climbing with vigor and strength and skill. Tired sometimes and energized at others. And then
Gotta Fly Now
Posted: 495 days ago
“Just start,” he said, with rugged firmness in his voice. “Don’t trouble shoot every negative scenario or you’ll be too afraid to get off the couch.” It was
Freedom: It Starts With the Soul
Posted: 516 days ago
Freedom must start with the soul. The essence of who we are. What we are sold out for. What we are living for. The things we choose…
Like Climbing Steps
Posted: 519 days ago
“Like climbing steps” he’d say. “Life is like climbing steps.” You struggle and strain to get to the next step. And then…
Contradictions
Posted: 526 days ago
Watching children play through the window on a wall at the Washington Holocaust Museum was a story in contradiction for me…
Don't Postpone Joy
Posted: 560 days ago
“Don’t Postpone Joy” the sign read. A simple sign in a remote location caught her attention and stopped her…
Mothers
Posted: 567 days ago
Nobody loves us like our mothers. Whether they are good at it or not, nobody gives us life like…
Goodnight Irene 1916-2007
Posted: 580 days ago
““Good night Irene,” I can still hear her sing in a comforting grandmotherly way. Now I’m singing it to her…
If You Want To Walk On Water
Posted: 593 days ago
Author Unknown
Posted: 601 days ago
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in…
WPPI 2007
Posted: 612 days ago
If you’ve never been to a photography trade show, you must go! Five days jammed with…
Live! Don't Exist.
Posted: 620 days ago
“I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than…
The Law of Separation
Posted: 622 days ago
“A wise man once told me that the world builds artificial walls around things to make them easier to learn. We teach…”
The Tree of Knowledge
Posted: 622 days ago
“The more I know, the more I realize how much I don’t. ‘Why does the the street move Mommy? Is the moon…
Frictionless State
Posted: 635 days ago
“’“Rowers have a word for [a] frictionless state: SWING... ‘”
Summing Up Cuba
Posted: 650 days ago
I can’t. There is no summary. There are just miles of contradictions and dichotomies…
Eclipsed
Posted: 650 days ago
“Don’t know this man. Saw him in a window in Cuba and snapped a shot. The light attracted me to him…
After Capture Magazine Launches!
Posted: 670 days ago
A giant thank you to Bill Hurter, Skip Cohen and George Varanakis of Rangefinder Publications for tapping me to be on the inaugural team to
Masters
Posted: 671 days ago
“This collage of some of the masters’ work in Italy was designed with Photoshop CS2 and…”
Face Fear
Posted: 672 days ago
“I had a mentor once who made me write the the following words and post them above my computer for daily viewing… “do it trembling if …”
Trademark Granted!
Posted: 682 days ago
“Photos by Kat is thrilled to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark office has granted…”
Finding Focus
Posted: 684 days ago
Resolutions done. Tree put away. School in force. The year still ripe with hope. Will the fog of routine blur…
2007 Wish
Posted: 699 days ago
“May thieves visit your every worry and bandits rob your troubles. May joy infect you right down to the…”
The Window We Leave Behind
Posted: 711 days ago
“Stained glass fascinates me. Little shattered pieces of glass. Broken. Some colorful, some drab. Seemingly useless in a…”
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The Window We Leave Behind [edited]
Posted: 711 days ago
Stained glass fascinates me. Little shattered pieces of glass. Broken. Some colorful, some drab. Seemingly useless
God Don't Make No Junk
Posted: 722 days ago
“As the dramatist this past October for the Women of Joy conference in Ashville North Carolina, I witnessed something amazing. I saw…”
Finding Your Passion
Posted: 733 days ago
I love John Wesley’s words: “Set yourself on fire for the things you believe, and people will come from miles to watch you burn!”
The Great Artists
Posted: 747 days ago
“The great artists keep us from frozenness, from smugness, from thinking that the truth is in us, rather than in God… ”
Practice Does Not Make Perfect!
Posted: 755 days ago
“I want to eliminate the phrase “practice makes perfect” from the lexicon of my life! No, practice does not…”
Why I Don't Want To Be A Flamingo!
Posted: 762 days ago
“Flamingos don’t wear boots! I want to die with my boots on—riding rough on my horse, all out, breathless, surrounded by like-minded people who…”
Defrosting the World
Posted: 774 days ago
“Viewing the reliefs and ancient ruins in Italy gives one a sense that the world is defrosting. From a cold hard block of…”
Capture
Posted: 790 days ago
“The life of an artist will be reflected in the things he captures. For the capture is simply…”
Tis a Gift to be Simple
Posted: 811 days ago
“The song kept ringing in my head… “tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free, tis a gift to come…”
A City on a Hill
Posted: 818 days ago
“You’ve seen pictures of it. A city etched into the side of a cliff. A cliff that plunges into the sea. Clouds that obscure the mountain …
Where's Kat?
Posted: 824 days ago
“Every picture book of Venice has pictures in the rain. I didn’t really understand that until…”
Talent or Imagination?
Posted: 827 days ago
“Is it that we don’t have that type of talent anymore”, my husband asked me? “Why don’t we see…
Leaving the Vatican
Posted: 834 days ago
“They call it Vatican City for a reason! You’d have to live there to see it all. Every inch is adorned, etched, guilded or…”
The World's A Frame
Posted: 838 days ago
“Simple lessons are the best. They penetrate right down to the fleshy portion of your brain. They resonate. They stick. Early in…”
Sleeping Gondolas
Posted: 842 days ago
“At the peak of summer, Venice was grossly crowded with tourists. On the third day, I realized that shooting before sunrise would be my only hope…”
Tasting Italy
Posted: 848 days ago
“Tasting Italy was amazing! Everything was fresh, unpreserved and delicious. So trained to be carb conscious, I marveled at… ”
Renaissance Man
Posted: 852 days ago
AN ADDITION TO THE FREEDOM COLLECTION: “Seem like a strange first image from our voyage to Italy? Not even a little bit! The Renaissance was about…”
Arrivederci
Posted: 873 days ago
“This recent large format project for a church reflects an image of adventure. [42” x 63” canvas banner]. The image was captured in…”
Face it
Posted: 878 days ago
“I had to face it. She was right in front of me. And I was suddenly facing the irony of my recent visit to two impoversed countries….”
Freedom Rises
Posted: 880 days ago
AN ADDITION TO THE FREEDOM COLLECTION: “No matter where you are in the world, children posess a natural freedom of spirit. A rising from their souls…”
Broken
Posted: 896 days ago
100 Years
Posted: 923 days ago
FROM KAT’s FRANCE COLLECTION: “I recently fell in love with a song. It’s called 100 Years by Five for Fighting. It brilliantly captures the fleeting nature of…”
Deco Dreams
Posted: 941 days ago
“Photos by Kat is thrilled to announce the completion of her collection—Deco Dreams. The collection is…”
Looking for Paradise
Posted: 948 days ago
“Ironic, isn’t it. We are always looking somewhere else for paradise. 30 miles away from…”
Chasing Dreams!
Posted: 957 days ago
Chasing Dreams: “There are some places that just make you feel totally complete, whole and peaceful. This is it for me! Nestled in the Blueridge Mountains between…”
Rugged Individualism
Posted: 977 days ago
Georgia O’Keefe once said, “Art is not about learning how someone else does something. It’s about discovering what’s inside you…
What Might Have Been
Posted: 991 days ago
Photos by Kat is thrilled to annouce that Kat’s image, What Might Have Been, has been selected by Rangefinder Magazine for its annual Cookbook! See the text of the article here
Eat That Frog!
Posted: 1008 days ago
This image was inspired by my oldest sister who recently told me about the book “Eat That Frog!” Essentially, the book posits …
Love
Posted: 1022 days ago
“Some projects are a total joy. From the shoot to the final piece, a total joy. This 48” x 42” Bat Mitzvah display was…”
The Defense Speaks
Posted: 1040 days ago
As an artist, doing the cover of anything is exciting. Magazines. CD’s. Newsletters. But the king of all covers is the book…
Paris Flower Shop
Posted: 1047 days ago
“My brother-in-law gave us the gift of Paris when he moved there in 2002. Who could pass up the opportunity to “visit” [translation…”
Bread Man
Posted: 1057 days ago
THE REFLECTIONS COLLECTION: “Las Olas Boulevard truly mimics any quaint European town. On this day…”
Reflections of Miami
Posted: 1061 days ago
FROM THE REFLECTIONS COLLECTION: “January is a great time to reflect—on the past year, on the coming year, on the important things we will…”
A Few of Our Favorite Things
Posted: 1077 days ago
“It was an amazing year! Thank you from the bottom of my…”
Pause
Posted: 1089 days ago
FROM THE CUBA EXHIBIT: “In Cuba, it seemed as if somebody pressed a giant pause button and everything was put on hold…”
Raspberry Car
Posted: 1094 days ago
FROM THE CUBA EXHIBIT: “Watching a grown man see things and eat things he has never seen or eaten is indescribable…”
Thankful!
Posted: 1105 days ago
THE CUBA EXHIBIT: “The image of a bird soaring over the mountains of Cuba makes my heart thankful for…
The Artist Must...
Posted: 1109 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION: “Where does an artist go when she has to get it out on canvas but there isn’t enough money for food…
Simple Things
Posted: 1111 days ago
FROM THE CUBA EXHIBIT: “Last week I watched as a steady stream of water came in through the sky light in my kitchen. It was hard to be…
On the Horizon
Posted: 1112 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION: “What’s on the horizon kid?” It’s a question I’ve heard a thousand times from…
Drive!
Posted: 1120 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “I forget, how privileged we are to have the freedom to drive…
Roots
Posted: 1123 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “Cuban roots run deep. There is something about not being Cuban that…
Ration Cards
Posted: 1130 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “As we work through the days after Hurricane Wilma we are learning…
Of Course
Posted: 1135 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “My mind wandered to Cuba. Sometimes only a few hours of electricity…
Proud People
Posted: 1137 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “The Cuban people have little in the way of material things but…
Windows to the Soul
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “You can see eternity in some eyes…
Garden of Eden
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “In Western Cuba, this valley is famous for…
Looking for Havana
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “You get a definite sense of searching…
Slice of Life
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “Children by nature know no boundaries…
Perspective Shift
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “As I stood in front of this man, I had a flash back to my drive…
Reaching
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “The Cuban people are amazingly resilient. Always reaching…
What Might Have Been
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “Havana is tragically beautiful…
Cuban Treasure
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “The locals call them Cacharros…
Resilient Heart
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “How does one photograph a collective spirit…
The Don Quixote In All of Us!
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “Nothing will stop the dreamer from dreaming…
Cigar Man
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “Tobacco is grown in abundance…
Hello Cuba
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “I was blessed in September 2005 to visit the western tip of Cuba on a…
Hope Floats
Posted: 1138 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “No matter where you go in the world, children find joy in…
Lasting Scents
Posted: 1139 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “The Cuban national flower, Mariposa, and the favored drink…
A Light in The Dark Ages
Posted: 1139 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “The phrase ‘the Dark Ages’ is most commonly known…
Precious Drops
Posted: 1139 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… ”... it was the most satisfying hot bath I have ever had!”
The Dance of Chocolate
Posted: 1144 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… ”... in my wildest dreams I could not have fathomed the utter joy a taste of chocolate can bring…”
Through the Barriers
Posted: 1147 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… ”... but the people seemed to see the openings rather than the blocks…”
Upside Down
Posted: 1149 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “Nothing is wasted here…”
The Shepherd
Posted: 1150 days ago
FROM THE CUBA COLLECTION… “Many religions are practiced in Cuba, including…
