LOCAL PHOTOGS STAKE OUT TERRITORY

We've all hear the cliche'd story about high school grads going away to pursue their dream and landing far away from childhood homes. Professional portrait photographers Lacey Stiller and Alicia Schermann have a different story. Lacey and Alica graduated from Pine River and Pequot Lakes High Schools in 2005 and went to the Twin Cities for photo school. That's where they met and became friends and decided that working together close to home made sense. Alicia said she fell in love with photography years ago and has wanted to make a career of it for some time. She believes that if you love what you, you'll become better at it and work will never grow old. Lacey said she prefers shooting her clients in natural settings and in relaxed, informal poses and someday would like to do travel photography. The two share studio space in in the Professional Phogograhpy Studio in Jenkins in the old Watts Microsystems building on the west side of Highway 371.