SHE'S AWESOME >>>
Nov. 11, 2011 Winter Teems drove into downtown Olympia on a crisp, sunny day. Weeks earlier, she sold her possessions in Florida and hit the road with visiting her sister in Olympia as her only solid plan.
After that bright, sunny day - it rained for three months. Teems wondered what the hell she got herself into.
She stayed. It was the creative music and arts scene that grabbed her and shook the sunny Florida weather away.
Today, she's a fitness guru at L.A. Fitness in Thurston County. At night, and during her free time, she's a professional photographer with aspirations to add video production to her skill set.
We bring up Teems not because she's shooting next week's Weekly Volcano cover, or that she's shooting our 2013 Best of Olympia issue, which hits the street Thursday, Feb. 21 (vote now!), but because she recently completed two projects worth your attention.
First, she just finished publicity shots for the Olympia band Elbow Coulee, a band Weekly Volcano music critic Rev. Adam McKinney says "flourishes of lite prog-rock guitar noodling, mixing with dips into '90s emo and tight, spiky, early '00s dance-punk."
Yes, the photo above is Teems' work. Nice, huh?
Second, she produced a video for Ethan Tucker, the Olympia singer-songwriter who will perform at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 at Doyle's Public House in Tacoma.
When asked what local photographer inspires her, Teems named Weekly Volcano photographer Patrick Snapp. Nice.
Weclome aboard Winter.