My Favorite Recipes: Meet Ciara Ackerman

Ciara Ackerman grew up with a camera in hand just outside of St. John on her parents' ranch. She learned to appreciate the beauty of the Palouse at a young age and loved to capture it in pictures. She was also known to occasionally sneak into her mother's stash of disposable cameras while begging her four siblings to be her models for a photo shoot.

Ciara mischievously recalls all the deals she would make with her siblings in order to get them to agree to her proposals. That was the beginning of her passion to capture beautiful moments on film, which led her to studying photography and later s...