About Kate

Photography

My images are from travels, far and wide, and my lifelong home: the Puget Sound area. “They say” one should have a style, but I don’t. Every subject calls for its own approach. The challenge is to try and answer these questions: What makes this place where it is? What makes this experience what it is? Both the memorable and the mundane are part of the answer.

Prints and products made with some of my photos are available on Society 6 and Red Bubble. To see a gallery all of the images available for sale click here.

Website Development

Available to create and/or maintain websites using WordPress. Can also assist in creating a brand, including logos, favicons, then assist you to create printed materials (e.g., business cards and flyers) and headers for social media platforms consistent with your chosen brand images (e.g, facebook, pinterest).

I have extensive experience with communications, finance and leadership in many capacities as a volunteer: PTSA, Boy Scouts, Homeschool Support Association, Threads of Love, Books and Bricks Organization, and Church.

I have a degree in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a stress engineer for Boeing for a little over a decade before “retiring” when childcare arrangements fell apart. Time flew. Now the nest is empty…but parents and grandparents are aging and need care. To keep my brain alive I have taken courses in photography and web site development (WordPress and HTML5 and CSS3) on-line through South Seattle College, as well as using resources available on-line to learn graphic design.

My personal blog is : XingfuMama.blog

I also created and, for some time, maintained the site SJBWestSeattle.org.  My first experience with working with WordPress was setting up and, for a time, maintaining a website for BooksandBricks.org.