For the past year, I’ve been shooing for Country Club Living Magazine. Every month, Publisher @Brooke Hirschy introduces me to my subjects and then, to my delight, allows me creative freedom. For the February cover, my subjects couldn’t have been more perfectly fitting. Between their family name and their history, they were destined to be on the cover of a magazine during the month that celebrates love. When we sat down to plan our session, they told me their story and I adored them immediately. It’s pretty impossible not to! Bob and Kim Hart had their first date on Valentine’s Day, 1975 and ultimately tied the knot on February 15th, 1978. They’ve lived in Flagstaff for more than 30 years, giving birth to the very first set of triplets born at Flagstaff Medical Center in 1991. When they mentioned that they’d recently purchased and restored a 1967 Airstream, I could visualize the cover image I wanted to make. On the day of the session, they arrived in the blasting wind with sunny dispositions and dog Dakota in tow. It’s a wonder I was able to make portraits with so many tears of laughter streaming down my face in the gale.
Kim has decades of culinary expertise – teaching, owning her own cookie company – and she is the Resident Recipe Writer for the magazine. She brought along some cookies that couldn’t have been more delicious if they’d been conjured from a dream. She plated them with expert precision, and afterwards sent me home with a pile, along with the amazing recipe. I’ve tried to make them twice. Neither attempt compared but I will keep trying! Down the road, I hope to meet their daughters and continue to have fun with these love-ly folks.
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Kristen Dacey Iwai of KDI Photography is a full-time professional portrait photographer based in Flagstaff, Arizona with decades of experience. Making portraits of families, pregnancy, newborns, babies, children, and high school seniors in her downtown studio and on location, she serves clients from Flagstaff, Sedona, Tuba City, Winslow, Payson, Page, Williams, Prescott, Mesa, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Arizona
