Making the Cover of Montessori Life Magazine

A couple of months ago I found out that an image that I made last year was chosen to be on the cover of Montessori Life magazine. This was one of those things that was a lucky event on many levels. The first is that I really was not supposed to be there when I made this photo. I had dropped off my step daughter, and I was scheduled to shoot a Valentine’s Day celebration about an hour later. The kids were having so much fun sledding that I just stayed and made photos of that as well. Putting in just a little bit of extra time really paid off as one of those photos was picked for the cover. I don’t know how much credit I can take for the cover. The kids are just so photogenic that you can point your camera in a direction and make a good photo. I think that I was just lucky that the right student came in front of me at the right time. The young man on the cover was one of my favorite to photograph last year, and now he has a very cool keepsake to have.

I really do not shoot events for organizations that would allow me to make a cover of a magazine. I have now been on many collegiate websites, but they do not publish a magazine that I would be on. With that being said this was a huge honor for me. I don’t know how many magazine covers I will have when this is all said and done, but I have one to my credit now. It is pretty cool to hold the magazine in your hand knowing that your art is featured on it. This is a quarterly magazine, and one of my photos was used on the inside of the third quarter edition. Over the next couple of years I hope that I can make some more photos that would be worthy of being on the cover.