Cambridge Photography - Lynn Kendall

As with so many of us, Lynn started her photographic endeavors as a little girl with a Kodak Instamatic® camera. Her first photographic memory is one of trying to capture her newly remodeled bedroom. The shot was great, looking into mirrors on one wall to show the rest of the 10 year old’s wonderful new bedroom. Yes, you guessed it, when the print came back from the drug store, there was a bright flash in the mirror! The learning began with that shot. Over the years, her interest in photography grew to become a passion. “Of course, I’m still learning,” says Lynn. Her photographic philosophy is strongly influenced by the maxim that: When you are through learning, you’re through.

From her studio at Cambridge Photography in Greeley, Colorado, she very much enjoys her current vocation as a fine art photographer, primarily involved with displaying and selling her work at various fine art shows throughout the United States. “It’s still a thrill for me when someone connects strongly enough with my fine art photography to want to hang it in their home or office.” Obviously, she is a success, as her fine art photos hang in homes and offices all over the world.

Digital photography has opened new horizons for Lynn. She says that while there are many similarities between working with film and digital photography, there is just enough that is different as to present an invigorating challenge. “The main advantage for me is the ability to produce very large fine art photographs from a camera the size of a traditional 35mm camera.” She believes that fine art and travel photography is entering a new and exciting era. “As an artistic medium, photography has always been dependent on technology. It is great to be a photographer at the dawn of a new photographic technology.”

Lynn believes that with today’s highly automated cameras many people can capture technically good images in terms of exposure. She thinks, though, that most people still wrestle with achieving compositions that are powerful enough to leave a lasting impression.

“People don’t seem to appreciate that digital images are very often ruined at some point after they come out of the camera,” says Lynn. “Digital images have to be carefully preserved and enhanced, just as do film based images. Outstanding final images can be achieved only with utmost care and expertise.” Digital photographers, it seems, are still trying to live down some of the overly cute images created in the infancy of digital photography. She believes, however, that digital photography is now a very serious photographic medium.

“There is life beyond photography,” says Lynn. Anyone who has tasted her bread or dined at her table can attest to that fact. She is a world class chef. Her photographic travels are never complete without trying to decipher and bring home the best of what she tastes in other cities and lands.