Thank you for coming to visit the blog! I hope you enjoy it, and will post a comment or two! Here is where I will post news about specials, education and happenings. Daily meanderings will find their way here, as well as a bit of personal stuff thrown in for good measure.
Who is this Image Angel anyway? My name is Karen Linsley, I’ve owned and operated Image Angels since 1987, although it wasn’t always called Image Angels. My studio began life as Linsley Photography. Now, even though most pros call their studios by their names, I’ve always felt that lacked a bit of creativity. I am, after all, in a creative, artistic business! (one of these days I’ll have to post a blog about what it’s like to be an artist and have to run a business, all at the same time.) Anyway, I’ve got these long term clients; I do their portrait session every year at Christmas and make Christmas cards for them, one day I’m in the grocery store and I run into this client and he introduces me to someone as his Image Angel. The name fit! It used to be my tag line: “We’re YOUR Image Angels!” Now I no longer have a tag line :( (I’m working on it, suggestions are welcome!) but I’ve got a really cool name for the business, don’t you think?
Here’s the Bosson family, Don Bosson is the cute little short guy in the middle, he’s the one that came up with the Image Angel name.
If you’ve done the math, you’ve figured out that I’ve been doing this for over 21 years. It doesn’t seem like that, because time flies when you are having fun! I’ve seen a lot of changes in the photography business over the years, and the switch to digital was one of most profound things ever to hit the photography world. It has changed the way we do everything! I was one of the first in this area to go digital from medium format and I’ve not looked back since. Digital opened up a previously inaccessible world for me. I know photographers are supposed to love messing around in the darkroom, getting their fingers stained with developer, smelling the fixer, watching the image come up in the develop tray. Not me…I was forced to learn darkroom technique in college and hated every minute of it. I wanted to be outside, in the light, where the photos happen! I also wanted to do things to my photos that, in the olden days, necessitated things like special coloring pencils. None of those techniques ever really worked for me, I was a very frustrated artist! Not so today! Today I can take an image and color it, paint it, do all sorts of cool things to it with a few clicks of a mouse and a few strokes of a brush in the computer. I love it! I can do layouts, collages, add cute little swirls and awesome graphic effects. There is really no limit!
I started out as a newspaper photographer after graduating from San Francisco State University in 1982. I worked on a paper for a few years where I was the hard news photographer. This means I had a police scanner in my car, and would take off at all hours of the night to cover fires, accidents and anything else that made the police go screaming down the road with lights flashing and sirens blaring. Then, in 1986, I had a life changing event that made everything come to a sudden stop. I didn’t work for a while, and when I rejoined the human race I discovered that options for newspaper work if I wanted to stay in Lake Tahoe were very limited (actually, they were non existent!). So, I started Linsley Photography! Back then I worked alone, out of my home, doing only weddings. Today, I work out of a studio surrounded by a lovely garden, and not only do I do weddings, but I also do portraits: family portraits, high school seniors, babies, maternity portraits, business portraits. I also do some commercial work. Back then I worked alone, now I bring an assistant with me to all the jobs.
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