Photographers – Linnea Lenkus Fine Art Portrait Studios

On the subject of creativity and how I think about photography, I compiled some of my favorite quotes by famous photographers that express how I also feel.

When photographers ask me how to do something, I always suggest that they stop looking around for ideas and come up with those ideas on their own and look at the person, really look at the person in front of them. THAT is creativity.

On a daily basis, I encourage parents and loved ones to slow down and take the time to document these beautiful and fleeting moments in life with portrait photography. Being a proud mother, I see, first hand, how quickly children grow and how easy it is to let the craziness of life distract you from enjoying these times. Working for Linnea and watching how she sees life and love, I have truly come to see why family portraits are such an irreplaceable treasure…yet it took her months of reminding me to actually step in front of her lens myself!

Thank you Jaclyn, Nicole, and Erica for mentioning that I was your maternity photographer on “The Doctors” the other day. I was very flattered by what you said.

In December, I took beautiful portraits of the three gorgeous Dahm Triplets together, who were roughly a month apart in getting pregnant, and have since photographed each of them with their husbands in individual maternity sessions at two of my portrait studios. Next, we can’t wait to get all of their beautiful daughters in the studio together for newborn portraits! Nicole delivered her daughter, Charlie, in January. Jaclyn’s little girl, Chanel, arrived last week. And, Erica’s little bundle of joy will be joining the pink party in the next few weeks!

I am honored to be asked to speak at the Professional Photographers of San Diego County tomorrow, Tuesday at 7pm. If you are a photographer, please feel free to attend. I get an email practically every day from photographers and aspiring photographers from all over the world asking me so many questions about how I do what I do. I’ll be talking about just that!

We are bringing our pet charity project to our Long Beach/Signal Hill Studio!

I am known primarily as a portrait photographer. Many people don’t know that I have a secret passion for flower photography. The secret’s not so secret anymore.

What began as a way to show my children the beauty of light and form in the garden as they were looking at our array of strange looking garden bugs became my creative release and obsession and now, to my surprise and delight, is being welcomed into art galleries.

I photograph lots of families. And of course, pets are a part of every growing family. For some reason dogs just love me. Maybe it’s because I’m a giant kid. Maybe because the feeling is mutual.

The children who’ve stood in front of my camera have conditions including autism, Asperbeger’s syndrome, high risk infant development delay, craniofacial deformity and attention deficit disorder. I was simply blown away by the strength, determination, courage and love that these families share. Listening to their stories moved me in a way that is hard to describe, especially as a mother of three healthy children.