Today we’d like to introduce you to Lindsay Lyons.
Hi Lindsay, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
I started when I was a little girl (in the 90s) with my dad, Andrew. He would buy me a throwaway camera and would let me develop one every two weeks. He would take his camera and I would take my throw-away camera and we would take pictures of old abandoned buildings and places. We would develop them in black and white and then display them in an album that was on our coffee table. My love for photography grew from that point of.
My husband and I were together from the age of 13 until we were about 20. We were married at 18 (I was 3 months pregnant) and we had a son, named Jeremy, at the age of 18 (a month before we turned 19). We were divorced at 26 years old and I took back my maiden name of Ross, but we always stayed in contact because of our son and my husband’s family was my family. God brought us back together in 2015. In 2020, he proposed, and we were married (again) on April 24, 2021. I am once again known as Lindsay Lyons!
In 2008, I started taking my photography more serious and started charging (a small amount) fee for my services. I was nowhere near where I wanted to be and I shouldn’t have been charging at all!
I didn’t start to get good until 2016 when I went to college for digital photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online. My husband supported my dream of becoming a photographer and he convinced me to go to college. College was the best thing I could have done! I learned the ins and outs of not only digital photography, but the business side of things as well.
I was known as Lyn Ross Photography, but as of June 2021, we are now known as Pose With The Lyons LLC. Our last name is Lyons and that’s where the name came from. My husband, Richard, helps me at weddings as a second shooter, and he sets up my mini sessions for me. He works full-time as an HVAC installer during the week and helps me with the photography on the weekends.
I just started a social media marketing company last month called Sociable Media Marketing by Pose With The Lyons LLC. We are hoping that takes off! I have been doing our own Marketing for years.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
No, it hasn’t been a smooth road at all! After going to college and being in college, I learned all about my camera. I had to learn how to set my camera settings to my surroundings in manual mode, I had to learn to shoot in raw, and I had to learn how to edit my images correctly.
The hardest part was the business side of things and the marketing. So, I spent countless hours teaching myself (what I didn’t learn in college) how to market my photography business and how to do business.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
We are natural light portrait photographers for Pose With The Lyons LLC. Me and my husband own this business and we are the photographers.
We specialize in portrait photography, but we do dabble in landscape photography as well. We are very well known for our portrait photography. We moved to the Columbia, SC area in 2019. It’s been hard, as photographers, to advertise for our business since there are so many photographers. Our business has been thriving since 2020! In June and July of 2021, I did have two brain surgeries, so that slowed things down for a little while, but now we are ready to start thriving again. We have a few repeat clients who always use our services and have shared photographs of our work on their walls!
We love meeting new people and seeing people we already know. Even if we have never met you before we always make our clients feel like they’ve known us forever. And we love doing it and seeing their smiles!
What do you think about happiness?
What makes us happy is seeing the real and genuine smiles during our sessions and then seeing our work on our clients’ walls! That fills us with so much joy we can’t even put that into words.
Photography is my passion, and everything about it makes me happy. From meeting the clients to taking the images, editing the images, delivering the images to our clients, to seeing our work on the walls!
Pricing:
- $300-$1600
Contact Info:
- Email: info@posewiththelyons.com
- Website: www.posewiththelyons.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/posewiththelyons
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/PoseWithTheLyons
