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Carolyn Haines is a Cypress, California-based photographer, specializing in family photography.
Her creative vision brings life to Lux 22 Photography through fine art portraiture. Carolyn creates images using both film and digital photography to best capture important moments in the lives of her clients.
Available for shoots in all of Southern California, including Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego Counties.
History
Established in 2014.
When I was growing up my parents kept tons of photographs in our upstairs hallway. There was a huge canvas print of the end of the hallway of me when I was five or six years old. I was wearing white lace sundress and a floppy white hat. I had a bouquet of fake flowers in my hand. But, for his cheesy and dated that picture seems now, it was amazing. When I think about that picture today, I still feel special. I feel like my parents cared enough to have a big olé’ picture of me at the end of the hallway.
The rest of our hallway was filled with frame upon frame of picture collages. Pictures from me and my dad, all my cousins, and all of our important family gatherings. It was a chronicle of my whole childhood.
All those photos are important to me. They tell the story of my life and my family. When my mom moved out of the big house and into a small condo she took down all those picture frames and scanned all the photographs. Now them all as digital files, but it’s not the same. It’s not
Meet the Business Owner
Carolyn H.
Business Owner
I became a photographer because of my dad. My dad was a hobbyist photographer when I was going up. He had an old Konica FS1 35 mm film camera. It was a pretty big deal.
My dad shot film at a time when there was a little photo lab in every big store parking lot. Back then you could buy film just about anywhere.
As a high school student I had to take an art class as one of the general education requirements. Instead of taking painting or figure drawing, or ceramics I took photography. And I fell in love with it. My dad let me borrow his 35 mm camera and I learned to develop black-and-white film and make enlargements in high school darkroom.
Since then, my love for photography has just grown. While I still love to shoot film, I do most of my professional work with a digital camera today.
My ongoing interest in photography grew into passion when my sons were born. Photographs were my way to freeze time and capture every moment with my boys.
I have always been drawn to portraiture. My fa