From the time she was a little girl, Sherry Stinson was always taking pictures with a camera. When her dad passed away in 2019 and the family looked through photos for his memorial, they couldn't find any with her in them. There were plenty of her brothers, her mom and her grandparents, but she was missing. She was always the one behind the camera lens.

Her father recognized her talent. "When I graduated from high school, my dad said, 'You know, kid, you take pretty good pictures. You might make some money at it one day.' So he bought me a Pentax K1000 which I still have and still works – if I...