As a teacher looking at Kim's work and watching her interaction in the Elements group, I recognize her right away. She is that student in the class who absorbs everything the teacher says. She's that one student who makes it worth getting up everyday and going to school. She isn't willing to just duplicate what she … Read more

As a teacher looking at Kim's work and watching her interaction in the Elements group, I recognize her right away. She is that student in the class who absorbs everything the teacher says. She's that one student who makes it worth getting up everyday and going to school. She isn't willing to just duplicate what she learns on Flickr. She takes it, manipulates it, and multiplies that knowledge until it becomes something new and special. Just look at her stream and you'll see it too. She's the student who, years later, makes you puff out your chest and say, "yeah, I had her in class." Never rest, Kim. Just keep amazing us.

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You can glance at a few random photos in Kim's photostream and completely miss what is going on. There's leftover food on a dish, a wire "shampoo holder" in a shower, a slobbery dog dish, ... It will take an investment of your time going through her photographs to begin to see that there's an artist at work here. I… Read more

You can glance at a few random photos in Kim's photostream and completely miss what is going on. There's leftover food on a dish, a wire "shampoo holder" in a shower, a slobbery dog dish, ... It will take an investment of your time going through her photographs to begin to see that there's an artist at work here. I think for me it was when I realized that she had photographed that slobbery dog dish (see November 4, 2006) with all the care and aesthetic sense one might use when photographing an ancient vase from the Ming Dynasty. Behind what may seem at first a rather odd sense of photographic subject matter is an intelligence and wit that I have grown to admire. Kim is seeing in the simple daily things of her life a beauty that most people fail to recognize. I think that she probably always has. To keep up with her photostream is like watching someone exploring the capabilities of the photographic medium, coming up with better and better ways of showing us the visual feast we're surrounded by.

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