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[02.01.05]
- Making
the Cover of Southwestern Image Magazine
KC's image "Legacy of a Champion"
was featured on the cover of the February issue
of Southwestern Image Magazine. The image went into
PPA's Loan Collection and helped earn KC his Silver
Level Photographer of the Year Award. Below is the
Cover Story.
"K.C. Montgomery began his career
as a photographer back in 1984, although his passion
for photography started during his college days
at the University of Oklahoma. He pursued that passion
through his love of horses by developing a style
of equine conformation photography that became in
high demand. Today K.C. is the official contract
photographer for the American Quarter Horse World
Championship Shows (since 1997), the American Paint
Horse World Shows (since 1996), as well as the former
official photographer for the European Championships
in Germany for almost a decade. K.C. has had the
opportunity to work for clients throughout the United
States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium,
England, and Brazil. He and his wife currently own
and operate an advertising agency which caters to
the western and equine industries as well as the
photography business. In 2004, K.C. was honored
by the American Quarter Horse Museum and Heritage
Center in Amarillo, Texas when they created a special
exhibit entitled "Power, Grace and Beauty through
the Lens of K.C. Montgomery". The exhibit consists
of eighteen 30"x40" framed canvas prints
of some of K.C.'s finest work and will hang in the
main gallery of the museum through January 2005.
It will then become a traveling exhibit at other
western museums throughout the United States. K.C.
feels very fortunate to have such a wonderful customer
base and the opportunity to pursue his passion for
photography by capturing the many different aspects
of one of the greatest animals on earth, the magnificent
horse. The cover image is of a World Champion Quarter
Horse stallion which was captured with a Nikon D1X
during normal daylight hours and the software used
to create the illustration was Photoshop and Corel
Painter. K.C. and his wife, Nova, have two children;
Andrew, 23, a senior at the University of Oklahoma
and Ashley, 21, a junior at Oklahoma State University."
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