Welcome to Mountain Air Photography and my name is Dakota.

     I have been shooting photos most of my life as I began when I was a young girl with my Kodak Brownie. I loved photographing beautiful and memorable moments, landscapes, animals, people, and much more.

     I enjoyed photographing a wide variety of places and images, but I was drawn to outdoors and also travel photography. As a teenager each summer I would go with any Y group, church or just any organization that offered a caravan trip to the High Sierra community camps. I was so drawn to the trees, the lakes and rivers, the vistas, and the incredible beauty of the snow capped Sierras. We spent a good amount of time on the Eastern Sierras and in Yosemite.

     When I was 20 I purchased my first SLR, a Minolta ST101. The variety of options open to me with a SLR and the use of a wide variety of lenses truly blew me away. I had so much fun photographing anything and everything for the next several years.

    In later years I was hired by a Motorsports promotion company to shoot images for their promotion and publicity campaigns. My work was exposed in ads, newspapers, magazines, and billboards all over the US. I was fortunate to sell one really unique shot to the UPI Photo Service and another image to Cycle World magazine, at that time the number one cycle magazine in the world.

     That was my first exposure of selling any of my art.

     I have been fortunate to have had many of my images run in National and regional magazines, on many websites, and my images have sold in Artist Galleries as well as thru my own website.

     I had the unfortunate experience of losing all of the images I had shot from when I was a little girl to about 2002. It was a horrible experience and one which took me away from shooting photographs for a few years.

     In 2007 I was refreshed and rejuvenated so I begin photographing again and I instantly purchased my first Digital SLR, a Nikon D70s. The ease of taking photos and seeing your images instantly was very invigorating and helped me to expand my horizons and limitations.

     I love utilizing all the wonderful advantages of shooting RAW and as I have also been a user of Adobe's Photoshop for many years it all was greatto help in expanding my creative and emmotional processes. Plus not having all the expensive photo lab and development costs was another big bonus.

     The Pacific Northwest and the Western US and Canada is a very inspiring and motivational environment for me and with the purchase of my Nikon D200 Digital camera I can't wait for all new new and old places that I will be photographing again.

I hope you enjoy my art.

Peace.

Dakota, photographer and owner