Pure Vision Studios Professional Photography

Wagon Days Show and Poster Signing

Hi Everyone!  Please come and join us for Wagon Days Weekend. I will be signing posters and exhibiting my work on Friday, September 4th from 5 - 7pm (or later) at the Saddletree Gallery on Sun Valley Road in Ketchum, next to the (Yummmmy)  Rocky Mtn Chocolate Factory and Wise Guy Pizza or 460 Sun Valley Road.  Wagon Days Posters are selling and I couldn't be more delighted! Get yours on Friday.  Looking forward to seeing you!


See my posts below for information about Wagon Days.  Go to purevisionstudios.com to see all of the Wagon Days photos from last year under the Gallery Events/Wagon Days 50th Anniversary.

 

Teri Lee Niedrich/Pure Vision Studios Honored as Wagon Days 2009 Poster Artist

Last year I had the ride of my life shooting the 50th Anniversary Wagon Days Celebration in Ketchum and Sun Valley, Idaho.  Not only did I get the opportunity to ride in the lead wagon of Wagon Day's "Big Hitch", but I was given a rare chance to get a Pure Visionary look into this great, historic celebration.  The Wood River Valley is an extraordinary place.  I would bet that you would be hard pressed to find any local who wouldn't agree with me on that.  It's beauty is fierce and its people are fiercely passionate and full of life.  This will always be my home.

When I was told that my work, "Wagon Days - Echoes of the Past" had been chosen as the Wagon Days poster art, I was shocked, honored and admittedly "verklempt".  To even be included with such truly talented artists of many mediums who both compete for and win the honor of being chosen, I am truly appreciative and ecstatic.

Please visit my Wagon Days Post of last year and the Wagon Days Website to find out more about this unnique event that allows thousands of visitors and locals alike a peek into the inspiring history of the Wood River Valley where people of true grit carved out a future in this amazing place for us all to enjoy.

My sincere thanks to all of the Members of the Wagon Days Association. Check out my Wagon Days 50th HD Slideshow on YouTube. (Be sure to click HD button in the bottom right corner)

Special Olympics World Winter Games 2009

The Special Olympics World Winter Games 2009 ~ Photo Slideshow from Teri Niedrich on Vimeo. Larger HD version at http://vimeo.com/3431548 

I belong to an incredible group of female professional photographers from the Wood River Valley, The Digital Divas. We were asked to volunteer our skills for the Special Olympics World Winter Games 2009, hosted by the USA this year in Boise, Idaho. The competition locations included, Boise and Sun Valley, Idaho. We were happy to volunteer our time and we expected a wonderful adventure. We had no idea the purely incredible celebration of life we were about to experience.
I honestly don't have words to describe it. Inspiring just doesn't cut it. To be completely surrounded by athletes, coaches and volunteers who were purely loving and supporting each other. No politics, no ego, just powerful spirit that I really did not know existed. This was a celebration of our differences and it was totally remarkable. Everyone gladly gave it their all.
I was shooting with my new Canon 5d MarkII and it was a great environment for learning..shooting indoors without flash, action photos and outdoors in low light. Love that camera!!! More about that later...
The slideshow above was made using all of the local volunteer and Digital Divas photos. My partner in crime and I made this with the new iMovie 09. Having used other softwares Final Cut, Fotomagico and others..this was another opportunity to learn something new.

Take the opportunity to volunteer and support The Special Olympics. It will be the greatest gift you can give to this wonderful world and to yourself.