By Keith Brake
Montezuma Magazine Editor
Mia Boulton, who just graduated from Montezuma High School, is very creative, something she has displayed over and again with her photography on these pages the last several years.
Now, she’s going to to explore her passion for pictures – and photojournalism – by starting her own operation. It could become a business this summer.
“Shots by Mia” is up and flying.
Right now, her “target” market is high school seniors. She took her own senior photo and it has drawn attention.
She said she already has 10 photo shoots lined up.
The second part is “family fun,” where she’ll get candids of family activities, planned or spontaneous.
In both cases, she will deliver digital photos to the client, and they’ll discuss pricing. She realizes “I don’t have a ton of experience.”
“Message me for details,” Mia said.
That’s at miaboulton13@gmail.com, or you can call her at (319) 430-2399.
“I truly enjoy all of it, posing, editing, structured, or activity that doesn’t have much structure,” she said.
She has done some family work, and a ton of sports work. “I love to be on the sidelines,” she said. Her experience as a multi-sport athlete has proven helpful. She has excellent timing regarding when a special moment is approaching.
She can write, too.
She can communicate, period, and she has FFA state and national awards that prove that.
She is interested in journalism as a career. And agriculture, if she goes that way, will forever need its story told, by skilled practitioners.
Mia is headed for the University of Iowa, which has a renowned journalism school and the nationally-famous iowa Writer’s Workshop.
I recalled my own freshman year – at the University of Iowa – where I started to refine skills I could use as a future community editor.
I was offered a job by a daily paper after my sophomore year, and I’ve been attached to a fulfilling career that hasn’t made me rich but has been a joy.
Print journalism is disappearing from our planet, but electronic journalism is an evolving infant.
If you can write, photograph – and communicate, which Mia’s decorated FFA career proves – you will find a market – or maybe create one.