Acknowledgments

Thank you to the Denver Business Journal and Neil Westergaard, its editor. I took many of these photos while on location for the newspaper and have grown as a person and photographer during my 12-plus years at the DBJ. Thank you for the freedom to be creative and try new things. Thank you for trusting me with the responsibility of illustrating local business news every day through my photography.

Many thanks to my parents, Sudie Kelly and Bill Kelly, who have always supported me in my career.

I couldn’t forget to thank my first mentor at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA, Chris Anderson. “Why are you taking this picture?” still rings in my head. I am where I am because of your energy and time 20 years ago.

My husband, Joe, deserves ...

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