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out with my Polaroid transfers, which galleries picked up and sold very well. I loved the medium so much, I didn't want it to be just a passing fad. I wanted it to be a movement! So I wrote a book about it, and I put on some workshops, and they were packed! I went on to manipulated Polaroids and wrote another book. A year after that one came out, Polaroid stopped making the film. Imag- ine what that did for book sales!" Just as she has done with many of her images and various me- diums, Kathleen hand colors her art prints. (She works both by hand on the print and on the computer.) These days she is work- ing heavily in digital infrared. Since this is an ethereal, finely tex- tured look that originated with infrared film and regular digital capture can't do it, she has had two digital camera bodies convert- ed to shoot it. Kathleen now lives in Hawaii full-time and teaches photog- raphy online and at her own retreats and workshops, and she also leads photo tours and even swims with dolphins. "Teaching is also a passion of mine," she says. "Working in cooperation and being of service, and experiencing camaraderie, that's all a part of creating art for me."