Karrie Porter Bond

04/24/2026

I don’t know why this gives me a little thrill every time I see a headshot that I’ve captured “out in the wild“… I know logically speaking that when I do someone’s headshot, they are going to use it on their signage, Marketing, etc.… But it STILL gives me a little moment of glee when I’m just going about my day and I spot one.

shout out to Audrey Green at !

03/09/2026

There has to be a rule against having this much fun while working! 😅

Had the pleasure of shooting for David Bootle yesterday and what a great time we had! He’s a local performer, singer, musician, and overall cool dude who plays regularly at Mangoes Key West and has his Eastern US tour coming up going all the way up to Canada next fall.

We managed to fit studio headshots and thee locations around town into the shoot, enabling me to capture a range of both portraits and action shots of Dave doing what he loves.

Can’t wait to get these edited so he can use them to promote his tour and upcoming adventures!

01/30/2026

Literally, no topic is off-limits when we are in the studio vibing during a . Fishing, Alexa, getting an upgrade, cute pajamas, car talk, Sandra Bullock…you name it. The funniest part for me is watching this BTS video back, having forgotten what range of subjects we covered in that hour lol Meanwhile I’m also concentrating on head, shoulders, knees and toes, not to mention lighting, camera settings, and wardrobe. #

01/18/2026

Gotta brag on one of my recent headshot clients! Meet John Warmbold, seen here with a fresh “black eye” after a scripted on-stage scuffle with the bad guy. He just wrapped up two nights as “Matthew”, in the Key West High School Drama Class’s first ever student written and directed show, “Out of the Blue”.

I heard about this show actually when John came in to the studio to get some new headshots, and we were talking all things drama, theater, music, and his very future. I had already seen him play the role of “Sky” in Mamma Mia, and in several pieces during the KWHS Fall Showcase at Williams Hall, so of course I had to put this one on the calendar as well.

It’s always rewarding to see the people I work with in the studio out “in the wild” doing the thing they love the most!

10/17/2025

Follow along as I set up my photography studio for a group headshot session, with a corporate group here in Key West for their annual retreat.

09/21/2025

I took the first of (what would later become) many photos of the amazing Cara Higgins back in 2017. She would later go on to hire me several more times for not only additional headshots of both her and her team, but also commercial photos for her business, and over the years I would see her and capture candids during many a local event, including when she won the Athena Award at the Greater Key West Chamber of Commerce year-end gala - an honor bestowed only on the best of women.

I remember when the Chamber had me do photos of their Board of Directors, she was there and had me take her photo again, but said "I doubt it will be better than the one you already did of me, I just love that picture". And I know that was true because she used it everywhere and it still the portrait that everyone posts of her. As someone whose entire job is to make people feel good about themselves and how they look, this means a lot.

She was always helpful and friendly, walking over to check in with me anytime I was at the same function, and regularly referring clients to me.

One particular memory...I had asked for her to help me with some sticky contract wording and she invited me to her office. I remember her daughter was in the office that day and was particularly in need of attention and Cara apologized several times - I'm sure thinking she needed to be the "buttoned-up professional" - and when I said "no truly she is more than welcome to be in here" she went from discerning lawyer to relieved mom and looked at me with that expression of "it's been a day" and said thank you....such a benign little interaction but it's funny how you remember those human moments - just two women at a table, each of us doing our best.

Every time I encountered her, she had a smile and friends all around, she was always kind and supportive, but also had a sharp eye and was as intelligent as all-get-out. She was always so involved in the community, the Chamber, sat on several boards, and ran a successful business....I was always in admiration of her.

I am so sad to hear of her passing, and so thankful to have known her and been able to orbit in a small way in her very impactful sphere.

09/04/2025

Always fun to see an image you worked hard to get pop up in the news cycle!

This was from the Pool Party at Alexander's Guesthouse Key West last year while having a great time photographing Womenfest Key West on behalf of Wonderdog Studios.

This shot involved me first going around the pool in person first and letting a lot of rumbunctious ladies know that in a few moments I'd be hollering instructions for a group photo, then made my way to the balcony and with lots of arm gestures to indicate the margins, hand miming to encourage fill-ins of the empty spaces, and loudly projected directions on what to do and when to do it, and BOOM we got the shot.

Go check out the article on The Citizen website:

Key West’s annual Womenfest is back with five sun-soaked, femme-forward days of connection, empowerment, and late-summer fun. Set to run through Sunday, Sept. 7, year’s theme, “Decades of Divas,” pays

04/29/2025

Is your social media content ready for the summer season? 🌴🐚 As the snowbirds head home, it's the perfect chance to give your social media some love! Schedule a brand shoot, strategize, and freshen up your website. Get ready to wow your guests all year round! ☀️💻

02/20/2025

The cutest pets always hang out at Hog's Breath Saloon, and especially when I’m there shooting for them!

01/19/2025

As someone who has managed and built social media accounts professionally for the last roughly 14 years, and knowing as I do that you never put too much weight on one particular platform over another, because you do not own it, and you have no control over what happens to it, I know that fundamentally speaking, I should be able to walk away from TikTok with no emotion, but the truth of the matter is that it was the one platform where I truly felt like I could be myself, share content that I would not share anywhere else, and where I had truly found a community, and a social platform that actually turned into tangible actionable monetary financially beneficial, leads, and bookings, completely organically. Other than my time, I never spent a dollar to promote my work, my behind the scenes, or anything else on TikTok, and it managed to in some years account for about 10% of my revenue with the leads that it generated. That’s a significant number for a small business like mine.

I remember pushing all of you guys, Photographersespecially, to get on there, create accounts, and start making content. For a hot minute, I was literally the only Key West photographer, posting anything on the platform, and when you searched , my videos for probably about a year and a half to two years if I’m remembering correctly , were only all of MY videos! Finally, the rest of you caught on, and I had a little bit of competition, which is as it should be.

I remember posting on this very channel my progress in follower account and how my videos have been doing as somewhat of a case study.

I ended up amassing over 22,000 followers…
My largest following on any social platform… Over 1 million likes on my content…
So many creators that I followed, and that followed me, I found amazing team members on there, had the biggest belly laughs, would cry tears of empathy over others stories, And just generally like to go there and hang out for a little bit every day. I learned so much, met so many interesting people, made so many unique connections, and it has just really been a source of joy as well as a tool for my business.

Anyway, my point of this post is not to opine over the potential loss of TikTok tomorrow (although NGL I’m gonna ride this ship all the way to the end and binge watch my favorite creators til they turn the lights off), it’s actually to let any of my fellow small businesses know this…

if you have spent any amount of time creating content for TikTok, and you need a way to download all of your videos, watermark free, so that you can repurpose them on other channels, there is a tool that I discovered and used myself today called MyFaveTT.

It is a Chrome extension that you will need to install, and then what you will need to do is go into your own TikTok account, and go through your own videos, favorite them… Using the little*tab*looking icon on the bottom right, and once you have all of your own videos in your favorites, you can log onto the myfaveTT chrome extension in your Internet browser, using your TikTok username and password, and it will connect to your account, and it will download all of the videos in your favorites.

Now, it is not lost on me that if you have favorited videos from other creators over the years, that it is also going to download those as well. Listen, I’m not saying it’s a glorious and perfect solution, but if you don’t want to spend the next several hours manually downloading videos to your phone, this is what you have to do.

If you want to delete those extra favorites that you don’t need later, be my guest. But, at least you will have all of yours, and then you can cross pollinate them to YouTube shorts, bluesky, hopefully Neptune if/when it comes out, or if you’re feeling really adventurous and want to join me over on RedNote, come on in, the mandarin water is fine. Lol.

 https://myfavett.com

But back to the original topic of this post… Wherever you end up, don’t forget to also be curating your email list, building a newsletter, and diversifying your social media portfolio.

And for anyone who has enjoyed my TikTok content over the years, I hope you will continue to do so via my other channels.

I have unfortunately slept on YouTube shorts for far too long, so I will probably move the majority of my short form content over there, but will also be hanging out more on BlueSky and whatever ATProto language they’re building called SkyLight if and when that is ready.

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