Kary Schumpert

Kary keeps a blog at running-into-life.com and can be found on Instagram at @running_into_life. She teaches, writes, runs, plays with cameras, and spends her time in New Mexico and Colorado.

Kary Schumpert's Posts

14 November, 2023

Confessions of a Failed Camera Flipper

By Kary Schumpert

For the longest time, I owned only one camera. When I bought a new camera, I just donated or gave my old camera away, and I usually hung on to a camera for years. In fact, I was...

8 August, 2023

Running With Cameras

By Kary Schumpert

I love photography and I love running. I am just now getting back into shape after a longer-than-I-thought break from running. Most of the time, because I am covering very short...

20 June, 2023

Photography as Play

By Kary Schumpert

In elementary school, I played piano and basketball. My mom, even with a stretched budget, always made sure we had money for piano lessons, and the fees for the elementary baske...

4 May, 2023

The Case for Always Taking Your Camera

By Kary Schumpert

In all of the photography advice I have ever received, the most common is to always bring your camera. You never know when you might come across something that you want to aim y...

4 May, 2023

The Case for Not Always Taking Your Camera

By Kary Schumpert

Okay, it might be blasphemy to write this for a photography website. The other night, on a beautiful spring evening, I took Jupiter the dog for a little walk before dinner. I wa...