About kristina

I know the Southwest light and the places horses shine, from El Paso desert vistas and cottonwood-lined arenas to the barns nobody finds without a good map. I bring steady direction, patience, and years behind the camera, so you look good and feel like yourself with your horse, dust and all.

I've spent years photographing portraits and horse shows across this region, and I've learned what matters: the story between you and your horse. I'm here to slow things down, capture it with care, and turn it into heirloom prints and albums you'll still have long after the boot tracks fade.

Photography is how I honor the bond between people and their horses. I pour my heart into every session and keep things calm and horse-safe so real moments can happen: a nose against your cheek, hay in your hair, the look you never want to forget. My goal is simple. Make images that feel true, and turn them into artwork you'll live with every day.

Every partnership is different, so your collection should be too. Maybe that means black-background elegance in the barn aisle, golden-hour portraits in the pasture with dirt still on your jeans, or show-day coverage that captures the grit alongside the grace. Whatever fits your horse, your goals, and your budget, we'll build it together.

Hi, I'm Kristina, but you can call me Kris.

Why me? Because I'm a crazy horse girl too. I've pulled the late nights and the early mornings with my own horses. I've driven twelve hours across Texas because my vet found fishing line in my colicking horse's stomach. I lost the first horse I ever loved, at the rescue where I volunteered, with nothing but cell phone photos left to remember him by.

I know what it means to have real photos with the light of your life. I know how it feels to have a big white lens pointed at you while your horse does everything except behave. And I know exactly how much it matters to get the ears up and the legs square, because I've stood right where you're standing.

Turquoise in your ears, dirt on your knees. To me, that's the whole job.

I photograph horses across the whole spectrum, from the ones so relaxed they won't even prick their ears up because they're too broke to bother, to the ones who are still a little bit wild. I know what it's like to be photographed while holding the reins to a 1,000-pound kite with hooves, so you're in good company if your horse horses at your session.

My clients get to see themselves through their horse's eyes: the love, the patience, the crying at midnight because nothing went right that day, and the long days spent together, away from home, doing the thing that makes sense to no one but you.

I love doing Gallery Reveals over Zoom, because I get to watch your eyes light up when you see yourself and your horse the way I see you, and I hear the catch in your voice when you tell me what these memories mean to you. It's so, so much better than getting a text that just says "Got them, thanks!"

And honestly? I absolutely love my job.

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Look around your house. The photos on the wall tell people who you love and what you'd fight for, before you ever say a word.

For my clients, that's usually a horse. Not a horse in general, the actual horse, the one who nickers when your truck pulls in the driveway, the one you've hauled six hours for a ribbon and would skip the ribbon just to sit with in the pasture.

I photograph the people who wear their good jewelry to the barn. Manicured nails with dirt under them by nine a.m. A blowout under a straw hat. That's the blend I've built my whole business around: boujie and grit, together, unapologetically.

Your walls should hold something true. Something that says exactly who you are and what you paid the vet bill to protect.

Here to capture your bond in a way that's as timeless as your commitment.

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My favorite color:

India

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