Our Friendship: the SilverBox story

“Would it be ok for a friend of mine to observe the shoot? She’s really interested in photography and wants to watch you work.”

And that’s how we met.

Amy had been booked to shoot a backyard “just-like-you” family session, and Kim was curious.

Serendipity at work?

But let’s back up. Though we didn’t yet know one another, we lived walking-distance apart in the same neighborhood, we’d both been exchange students way back when, had both (more recently) worked in public service. This list, by the way, goes on and on.

For each of us, photography had long been a personal creative outlet, our passion, our retreat…but really our, dare we say it:  hobbies. In fact, we’d both gone to college and then graduate school in non-art areas (for Kim, a BA in American Civilization from Brown and an MS in Environmental Education from the U of Michigan. For Amy, a BS in Political Science from Truman State and an MA in Communication from the U of Missouri).

We both thought of photography as FUN; not as the way we’d help make the world a better place. And then. One word: kids. Wow, how our lives changed.