

Correspondent image / Melissa Channell
Kim Guthridge Floyd of Warren, owner of Phoenix Pictures, exhibits a image she took of the Warren G. Harding soccer crew.

WARREN — Kim Guthridge Floyd is created of strong stuff. Rising up with 3 brothers — Jack, Bob and Mark Guthridge — can have that influence.
She has been married for 30 many years to her spouse, Phillip, who is a disabled veteran working with Parkinson’s sickness. Kim Floyd also is a veteran. She served in the Military and was stationed as a guard in Washington, D.C., less than former President Ronald Reagan.
Floyd, who owns a images business enterprise known as Phoenix Images, a short while ago confirmed off a image of a sunflower industry that was utilized by Austintown artist Ron Moore Jr. (who also has Parkinson’s) as inspiration for a portray that lifted $30,000 to mail to a Ukraine fund. She stated her image and Moore’s subsequent painting exhibit the worth of collaboration.
Floyd is a self-proclaimed tomboy. Her oldest brother played baseball with Significant League pitcher Dave Dravecky at Boardman High College and later joined the Navy. He died in an industrial incident in Virginia.
Floyd reported she very first became fascinated in taking part in sporting activities when she was 4 and was the batgirl for her brothers’ T-ball crew. She also became fascinated in pictures about the similar age when her grandmother gave her an outdated digicam.
Floyd was elevated in Boardman, attended the Boardman Local School District and performed each sport she could though increasing up. In reality, she was a member of Boardman’s initial soccer workforce.
Even so, her dreams of continuing to engage in sports activities finished all through a championship softball sport towards a staff from New York.
“I was hit so tough in the back of the head that I wound up with a cracked cranium and was not allowed to engage in any more,” Floyd explained.
That personal injury was the catalyst to her determining to select up her digicam once more. And for the reason that Floyd could not play sporting activities anymore, her next normal alternative was to photograph sports activities. She commenced photographing college athletics and took images of Lynn Bowden Jr. even though he was participating in for Warren G. Harding Higher Faculty.
Floyd’s like of athletics and pictures have her dreaming of becoming a photographer for a expert sports workforce or a sports activities journal. She mentioned the quotation, “A picture is truly worth a thousand words,” by Fred R. Barnard has motivated her, and she needs to “inspire young females to turn into athletics photographers.”
Floyd likes to consider of her mom and brother looking down on her and remaining happy.
“I am a solid supporter of women sporting activities and the youth of nowadays,” she said.
Floyd begins photographing small children from T-ball and follows them as a result of graduation.
She loves to see “the young ones just mild up when they see her coming with her digicam,” and it is “great to see how they improve by means of the many years.”
Floyd will photograph equally boys and ladies sports teams, but her heart lies in being a position product and encouragement for girls’ sports activities.
The title for Floyd’s images studio, Phoenix Photography, comes from her motto, “Sometimes you have to die a minor within in get to be reborn and increase yet again a stronger and wiser edition of by yourself.”
“With all I have been by in lifestyle previously, I take into consideration myself like a phoenix. A phoenix symbolizes eternity, power and renewal,” Floyd reported.
She claimed she believes that element of God’s prepare for her is being ready to support present these young athletes and their skills, and also to display young gals that becoming a lady sports activities photographer is possible.










