About Nichter Photography

Artists’ Statement and Biography 2025

Artists’ Statement

With our photography we seek to capture the fleeting moments of beauty in nature and preserve the essence of being in that place at that time.

Biography

In 2008, after three years of photographing nature together, Karl and Kathleen left their business careers and started Nichter Photography. They choose to concentrate on free-lance nature and travel photography. From the start, they also planned to use their work to help support selected nature and heritage focused non-profits in west central and north Florida.

Since that time their photography has appeared in local, national, and international publications, they produced gallery exhibitions, sold retail in several locations, shot stock photography, led hikes and conducted classes, and occasionally took on contracted work. Articles about their work appeared in local newspapers and publications, and they appeared on a segment of Spectrum’s Florida on a Tankful.

Both pursued photography as an avocation and occasionally professionally at other times in prior years. Karl has a diploma in photography from NYIP, and Kathleen completed a certification in digital photography. Both are graduates of the Florida Master Naturalist program, and Certified Interpretive Guides from the National Association of Interpretation. Both took art courses at university while earning their technical degrees in their respective fields.

About the Photographs

Karl and Kathleen control the production of their artwork from beginning to end. They print their own work on a professional grade photography printer using archival inks and choose the specific type of archival paper that bests renders the work. Karl creates a custom mat and frames the work. The use of archival materials, the extra steps such as the dust cover, and the use of quality materials overall insures that the printed photographs look their best and remain true to color. Unframed work receives the same care and is sold in a protective sleeve.

The Less Formal Version from 2018

January, 2018

Ten years ago Karl and I started Nichter Photography. It would take me almost six more months to wrap up the last project of my soon to be left behind business career, but I took my camera on every trip I could and shot photographs in my spare time. Karl focused on learning Photoshop CS whatever version was newest then, learning to print professional images matching archival inks to various papers, cutting custom mats, framing, and generally sharpening all of the technical skills necessary to convert the digital images we captured to our own one-of-a-kind artwork.

What a time! Early morning alarm clocks several mornings a week to get us on the road to various destinations so we could begin shooting before the sun officially rose. The thrill of capturing THE shot, the disappointment of spending all day and realizing it was good, but not quite the best and getting up the next morning to do it again. Our first exhibition, our first locally published photographs, our first nationally published photos. The first time I wrote an article to go with some of the photography, trying to work that skill into readable prose after decades of business correspondence, and having a newsletter publish both! Shooting free-lance, shooting on assignment and finding out that sometimes our vision needed to be tweaked to meet the vision of the client. Nurturing along our first blog, the excitement of having a following, the excitement of being recognized the first time: “I know you, you are the photographers”, the excitement of finding out people really read our stuff: “Are you the one who writes that blog? I read it all the time”. The first time an article appeared about us in a major newspaper, the first time we were invited to get a few minutes of fame on television.

Wow, what a decade!

This past year we took some down time to really think about the future, and our future. The market has changed, and we have changed. We decided to bow out, gracefully we hope, from most of our commercial and marketing pursuits. We are not giving up photography, our business, or our naturalist and interpretive work. We will be pursuing both more slowly, and experimenting with different approaches and areas. This new blog will continue, and may even grow. We will still offer some of our work for sale, just in a very limited way. Rather than looking for ways to grow the business, we will be looking for ways to grow ourselves as photographers.

Stay tuned!