Here are some pics from a photo essay that I shot for MKE magazine.

Hello All!!

The new issue of Wisconsin Bride Magazine is on newsstands now, and you can check out my latest photographs. I photographed one of my favorite subjects: CAKE!!!

I am also featured in last winters issue as well.

MKE asked me to photograph Tallan Latz: Blues musician extraordinaire!! Tallan is only 8 years old and has been blowing away his fans with his talents!

Here are the photos that I turned in. It will be interested to see which one they use.

Recently I did the photography for a website representing what I believe to be a great cause. The company is called Mayu

About Mayu:
"I work directly with women who live in a rural community that sits high in the Andes Mountains. Falling in love with the artisans and their amazing skills, I decided to start Mayu in hopes of continuing to support them and their families. Through Mayu, they have been given the opportunity to earn fair, liveable wages and become more independent while doing what they both enjoy and excel in, knitting.

We spent many years together forming a business relationship and more importantly friendships. This business has been mutually beneficial; I have taught them valuable business skills and they have given me a greater insight into the issues of women in developing countries, especially mothers who are single, divorced, or widowed and struggling to provide for their families.

As an accessory addict and a Mayu devotee, I believe that once you wear a Mayu product, you will not want to take it off! Our items appeal to sophisticated, yet fun and informal individuals who are socially conscious and looking for one-of-a-kind pieces.

-Kate Robertson"

To see the photographs that I took, and to explore the website, please visit www.ShopMayu.com

Its hard to believe that Krista and Brian got married last month, when I look out my window and all I see now is Snow, Snow, Snow!!!

I'm really glad that we were able to do some outdoor shots here! Also, why do I have such an impulse to photograph shoes?

Also in the works:

Advanced Concepts Series
Next Session: Portraiture
When: Starting March 5th, 6-9pm, 8 weeks, Hotcakes Gallery. Exhibition of photographs TBD.
Cost: $350 to include cost of final print, framing supplies and refreshments for Exhibition
Who: All ages and both genders welcome! Students must have a working knowledge of camera mechanics and own a Digital SLR camera

Objective: Students will be given weekly assignments exploring different types of portraiture. There will be a couple classes where we will have a series of guest photographers. These will be working and accomplished photographers who work in different types of portraiture. There will be 4 classes where a visiting photographer will give a presentation and help to critique that week's class.

The details for this class are not yet finalized. Please email me at Jessica@JKaminskiPhoto to be put on the mailing list for this class.

By Jody Callahan, Memphis Commercial Appeal
October 31, 2007

During their 71 years of marriage, Don and Myrtle Rutledge rarely spent any time apart.
In the early days, Myrtle picked up the family and followed Don when his job uprooted him.

When one was confined to a hospital, the other stayed right there at the bedside.

They even went fishing together (the family insists Myrtle was the better fisherman), dropping lines in the water whenever they found a little time.

So it was fitting, then, that when Don died just after 11:30 a week ago Monday night, Myrtle passed away just four hours and five minutes later, in the same room at the Golden Living Nursing Home in Southaven near Memphis.

The retired power company worker his colleagues called "Pops" was 90, the seamstress and housewife was 88. Both just missed their next birthdays, which would have rolled around in November.

"They were together so long. He was holding on for her, she was holding on for him," said their daughter, Eunice McCollough.

"I was glad it happened that way. I wasn't glad she was gone," Eunice said. "I was just glad she didn't have to be here without him."

The Hernando, Miss., couple met during the Depression, when Don went to Mississippi's Gulf Coast as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

"My mother, that was her home. He got to be friends with a guy down there that she had dated. That's how he met her," Eunice said.

They married in 1936 and, with the exception of Don's short time as a Navy Seabee at the end of World War II, spent most of the rest of their days together.

Where Don was, Myrtle wasn't far behind. Or the opposite. For 71 years.

"Whatever one liked to do," Eunice said, "the other one did it with them."

Fishing. Playing cards. Watching television.

"They watched 'The Price is Right' every morning, they watched 'Jeopardy!' every afternoon and the 'Wheel (of Fortune)' every night," said their daughter, Charlotte Davis. "You didn't call when they were watching those programs."

By all accounts, Don and Myrtle were as much in love in their 71st year together as they were their first, even when Alzheimer's began to whittle away at Myrtle.

"If he was up walking around, he'd walk by her chair and give her a kiss, saying, 'How you doin', babe?'" Eunice said.

Added the couple's third daughter, Juanita Burton (they also leave a son, Jerry): "He wouldn't eat without her. Until she got into there to eat, he didn't eat. That even went on in the nursing home."

And then there was that longtime staple of young couples in love, handholding. Even to the last, Don and Myrtle clutched each other's hands in a quiet show of love, something everyone who saw them remarked upon.

Charlotte: "They held hands anytime they went anywhere, always held hands."

Eunice: "They held hands wherever they went."

Juanita: "They were always holding hands, always. They didn't go anywhere without holding hands. They sat out on the front porch swing, holding hands."

In their last minutes together, with time draining away, Charlotte imagines they had this conversation:

Don: "You've tarried long enough. Let's go fishing."

Myrtle: "Just a minute, I'm coming."

More Fall Fun! We had great weather for this September wedding!

Emily and Greg got married on her parents land in Fitchburg, WI. It was a great combination of beautiful fall colors, great weather, and amazing scenery. Her father even surprised the bride and groom with a fireworks display during the reception!