Karen Gilder Images

Karen Gilder Images Portraits • Commissions
Fine Art Photography After closing the magazine at the end of 2019, the lure of photography returned.

As Publisher and Editor of PORTICO, a magazine dedicated to literary and visual stories, Karen Gilder learned to recognize exceptional images. From her first film camera, a Pentax K1000, Karen has always sought to find images to both enhance and disclose stories, images that in speaking to her might have greater reach: capturing the magic in moments and landscapes and faces. Trained in photojournalism at the University of Southern Mississippi, her photographic style seeks to suspend specific time and certain place, to create the magic of a moment. Returning to photography, Karen thought people and street scenes would capture her attention the most. But, as with most things, you find comfort around you; you understand the places and grasp the lives around you; you recognize the slightest seconds of change in that world…and the stories they tell. Turns out, surrounded as she is by it here where she lives every day, Karen discovered that ease of place in nature.

A pod of pelicans on the Coast.
10/17/2026

A pod of pelicans on the Coast.

Earlier this week I decided to take the long way home from New Orleans by way of our Mississippi Gulf Coast. Great decis...
10/16/2026

Earlier this week I decided to take the long way home from New Orleans by way of our Mississippi Gulf Coast. Great decision.😊
Great Blue Heron walking into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on a crazy hazy morning.

I felt a little Fall in the air this morning. You?
10/07/2026

I felt a little Fall in the air this morning. You?

Creating as many memories as possible with these beautiful creatures before they fly South.
10/06/2026

Creating as many memories as possible with these beautiful creatures before they fly South.

And photograph by Karen Gilder Images.😊Get your tickets today!
10/03/2026

And photograph by Karen Gilder Images.😊
Get your tickets today!

L👀K for us around Mississippi!🤗
Thank you The Northside Sun for featuring our 2026 Nutcracker Poster in your October Magazine!
Tag us when you see us around town! 🎀🍭🍫🐀🥜🩰




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Hummingbird eyelashes are made up of tiny special feathers. Next summer’s obsession is created.😊
09/19/2026

Hummingbird eyelashes are made up of tiny special feathers. Next summer’s obsession is created.😊

I absolutely will miss them when they fly away. You?
09/17/2026

I absolutely will miss them when they fly away. You?

The Peace of Wild Thingsby Wendell BerryWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least sound...
09/01/2026

The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives might be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wings up, it’s the weekend!
08/28/2026

Wings up, it’s the weekend!

Karen Gilder Images
01/12/2026

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