10/05/2026
I know I’m not the fastest photographer when it comes to getting galleries out. 🤍
And I’ll be the first one to admit that.
But there’s a reason.
I don’t use automated editing software. I don’t use AI apps to edit your photos. I don’t throw an entire gallery into a program, slap a preset on it, and call it done.
I also don’t have an editing team.
I don’t outsource your galleries or send your images overseas to an editor I’ve never met. Your photos of your children, your family, your wedding, your newborn, your senior, or some of the most personal and important moments of your life aren’t being uploaded and sent off to some unknown person somewhere else to edit.
When you hire Double K Photography, you hire me.
And your images stay with me.
Every. Single. Image. that leaves Double K Photography is handled by ME.
I go through your images by hand. I select them by hand. I edit them individually. I zoom in. I fix the little things. I check skin tones, colors, distractions, lighting, crops, and all of those tiny details you may never even notice, but I do.
Then I go back through them again before I deliver them because I want to make sure what I’m putting my name on is something I’m proud of.
And Double K Photography is just me.
I’m the photographer.
I’m the editor.
I’m the receptionist.
I’m the social media manager.
I’m the one answering your Facebook messages, texts, emails and phone calls.
I’m the one sending contracts, handling bookings, planning sessions, setting up the studio, cleaning up afterward, backing up your images, editing your galleries and finally delivering them.
There isn’t a team behind the scenes editing while I’m shooting. There isn’t an assistant answering messages while I’m sitting at my computer. There isn’t a third-party company processing galleries in the background.
It’s me. All of it.
And something else I think is important to explain: at any given time, I may have 15+ sessions AND 1–2 weddings actively in my editing queue.
So if you’re waiting on your gallery, I promise your pictures are not just sitting on the back burner somewhere forgotten.
I am working through thousands upon thousands of images, one gallery at a time, while still photographing new sessions, weddings and events along the way.
A wedding alone can mean going through and hand-editing hundreds and hundreds of final images. Then add senior sessions, families, newborns, sports, events, cake smashes and everything else I photograph into the mix.
I’m not sitting on your photos. I’m working on them.
And I’m also working on the galleries of the people who trusted me before you, while making sure that when it’s your turn, your gallery gets that exact same attention and care.
I refuse to rush through someone else’s wedding just to get to your family session faster, and I refuse to rush through your family session just because there are 10 more galleries waiting behind yours.
Every client deserves my best. Not just the clients at the front or back of my editing queue.
But there’s another part of this that I think sometimes gets forgotten when you run a small business:
I’m a person outside of Double K Photography, too.
I’m a mom.
I’m a wife.
I’m a daughter.
I’m a sister.
I’m a friend.
And those people deserve pieces of me, too.
There may be a Saturday that you see me celebrating a birthday instead of sitting behind my computer. There may be an evening that I’m playing with my kids instead of answering messages. There may be a family dinner, a holiday, a ball game, a date night, or simply a day where I close my laptop and choose to be present with the people I love.
And I don’t think that’s something any small business owner should have to feel guilty for.
I photograph people’s lives for a living. I photograph the birthdays, the babies, the weddings, the milestones and all of the little moments in between because I know just how quickly those moments pass.
I deserve to be present for those moments in my own life, too.
So if you see me away from my computer while you’re waiting on a gallery, please know that doesn’t mean I don’t care about your photos. It doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten about you. It doesn’t mean your gallery isn’t important to me.
It simply means that for a little while, I’m being Mom. Or Wife. Or Daughter. Or Sister. Or Friend.
Then I come back, open my computer, and keep working.
I know that means I may not be the photographer for everyone. Some people need or want an extremely fast turnaround, and I completely understand that.
But I would rather ask you for a little patience and deliver something I am genuinely proud of than rush through some of the most important memories of your life just so I can say I got them back quickly.
Because these aren’t just files to me.
They’re your babies being tiny.
Your senior before they graduate.
Your family exactly as they are in this season.
Your wedding day you spent months or years planning.
Your parents and grandparents.
Your milestones.
Your once-in-a-lifetime moments.
And sometimes, they’re moments we don’t realize the importance of until years later.
One day, a photograph I took may be one of the only things you have left to physically hold onto from that moment or that person.
That matters to me.
So yes, sometimes Double K takes a little longer.
But when you receive your gallery, I want you to know there was a real person behind every single image. The same person you trusted to take them in the first place.
Someone who cared about them. Someone who looked over them. Someone who worked on them by hand. Someone who knows the people in those photos aren’t just another gallery number.
I don’t pride myself on being the fastest. I pride myself on caring.
About the quality of my work.
About the memories you trusted me with.
And about being present for the memories happening in my own life, too.
I’ll choose quality over quantity, care over convenience, and being human over running myself into the ground every single time. 🤍
🩷Kylie K.
✨Double K Photography
