It Really Is All About the Journey…

Picture Perfect Presents is all about the fun, unique, wild (as in, all the photographs that serve as the creative foundation of everything presented on the website were experienced and “captured” by the photographer, Kristina Woodall, as she journeyed out into the landscape), original, fresh and dream-catching world of presents – gifts for you and yours!

It's always been about the light dancing through the lens of a camera for Kristina. When she was 13, she made a very special purchase – an inexpensive small film camera that immediately made life more vibrant, exciting, and fun! She couldn’t put it down! She even remembers the very first photo that she took… Walking down a back street near her uncle’s house (out in the burbs of Denver, Colorado), she came upon a black horse in a small field, munching away on grass and weeds. After a little stomping around, the black beauty let her snap the photo – forever capturing that “first” on film.  

That camera and Kristina were inseparable. She started working at a very young age (13) and made sure that she always put just enough away to buy some film and to pay for developing… magic on the way! When she was 15, her dad packed the family up and moved everyone to San Diego. Kristina went, inwardly kicking and screaming. (Yes, she would come to love California as a home away from home, but she deeply missed her mountains and her Denver Broncos!)

Having to downsize into a small apartment, her dad said everyone needed to sell off all “unnecessary” belongings – so the family could start fresh. Her dad was a firm man, one she never argued with, so when he picked up her little camera and put it into the big pile that “had to go,” she didn’t argue. Then off everyone went to a Swap Meet in San Diego – selling it to a Swap Meet Vendor who was selling a wide variety of cameras and accessories.

Moving through the years, including getting a full scholarship to the University of Southern California at 17; getting a Bachelor’s in Journalism (Humboldt State University); getting a Master’s in Psychology (Regis University); and moving through a career as a therapist and, eventually, a writer/editor and professional photographer for NASA’s GLOBE Program – she eventually came to a very pivotal time her in life, and was given a very special, Spirit-filled, gift!

About ten years ago now, her sister, brother, and nephew (like Kristina, now living back in Colorado) went on a vacation to San Diego. When they came back, her nephew could not wait to show Kristina something he’d purchased at a “Swap Meet.” (Kristina’s sister had dragged them all there – to show them the place she’d sold some of her own precious treasures.)

YES! It was Kristina’s camera! Dusty and a little dinged up, it still had her initials stamped in its side (something Kristina had done the very first week she owned the camera). Her nephew had seen it in a glass case of old (yes, very old) cameras that the Vendor (yep, same guy, according to Kristina’s sister) said was filled with cameras he’d never been able to sell – not for the 15 years he’d spent in that very same spot. Her sister, freaking out at the freaky fact that it was Kristina’s camera, gave her son the money to buy it back!

Nope, not making this up. Yep, mind completely blown. She couldn’t ignore what she took to be the biggest sign she’d ever received in her life! The answer of which road to take landed in her hand with that very special reminder of how amazing spirit and dreams can be!

Yes, message received. Having set aside photographic dreams for far too long, she went out and bought a brand new camera (and many more cameras along the way) and braided the power of mystery, magic, fun and adventure into the fabric of her being – and the fabric of every item she seeks to share via Picture Perfect Presents.

No, this is not a big, commercial venture. This is a small, nature-driven, dream-sharing adventure; it’s all about sharing the power and beauty of the very essence of the ‘true” of what brings us life: our precious planet and all of her glory – the fabric and landscape of the natural world above us, beneath us, and all around and ever-embracing us!  The goal of this adventure is to provide quality items with nature-filled beauty and wonder and awe that inspire presents/gifts for you and for everyone you truly care about.

There are NO — and there never will be — any “AI” photographs on this website!

And, starting with her breath-in-time photographic creations, Kristina is now working with a print-on-demand partner – Printful – to merge photography with practical application. As in, unique, fun, and unusual presents that she hopes inspire every single guest to the website to follow their own dreams – and to trek out-and-about through this very special world in which we live; to honor and enjoy it and, at the very core of all the dreaming – preserve and protect it!

Thank you, from the depths of the dream, and welcome to PicturePerfectPresents.com! And, remember, we’re all on this journey across this precious planet together!