Hot Fun in the Flathead

If grad student Kristine Paulsen has any more fun with her photo internship at Kalispell's Daily Interlake, she may never come back. For a peek at her work, including the forest fire shot to your right, click her name under "photographers" on the paper's photo site. Meanwhile, here's what she had to say about her summer:

"So the Daily Inter Lake has been working me like there's no tomorrow, but I've got to say, I'm loving it. I shoot about three to four assignments daily, depending on how busy things are, and I'm working with two wonderful photogs: Jennifer DeMonte and Karen Nichols, both U of M grads. Jenn was actually a grad student in the photo-j program."

Highlights so far?

"I got to go sailing on Flathead Lake and experience a race. I'll have a whole page of photos this coming Sunday in the Montana Life section. I photographed the first fire of the season. I was on scene at the trail of David Farr, who was accused of allegedly molesting five children at the Montessori school where he worked in Whitefish. The paper needed a story for their Outdoor section and allowed me to go climbing at Lake Koocanusa, photograph, and write the story. That'll be showing up in tomorrow's paper. ... I got to photograph the construction on Going-to-the-Sun road in East Glacier. That was pretty awesome to see those huge machines teetering on the edge of some crumbling gravel road. Oh, and to top the trip off, the reporter and I went morel hunting (very successfully!) afterwards. I'm finally going to get some sports in my portfolio! Lots and lots and lots (I could go on) of baseball. ... So, to sum things up, I am having an absolutely fantastic summer. Yay for great internships!"