A life-long California resident who frequently visited the Oregon coast, Lynda and her husband decided that it was time to make the Oregon Coast their full-time home. In 2005, along with their dogs, Cheyenne and Mickey, they moved to the central Oregon coast where they make their home today.

Always drawn to the sea, her first visit there immediately felt like home to Lynda and where she belonged. Her long time interest in photography quite naturally grew from a hobby to a passion as she began capturing photographs of humpback and gray whales along Oregon’s coasts, in Alaskan waters and south in the Sea of Cortez. “For me, there is nothing more exhilarating than floating in a 15 foot Zodiac beside a 30 or 40 ton magnificent Gray or Humpback Whale and observe and photograph them as they gently glide beneath the waters, without creating a ripple.  They are truly magnificent.”

The “up close and personal” nature of many of her photographs of whales capture their amazingly graceful nature.  Those experiences with the whales have only further heightened her desire to see them protected from whaling, which is once again threatening their existence.  They are magnificent, highly intelligent animals deserving of our protection and respect”, and Lynda hopes that her photographs can help to heighten that awareness.

Lynda is an award winning photographer and a member of The Photographic Society of America, Pelican Bay Artists Association and the Siuslaw Camera Club. Her work can be purchased through her web site or in various Oregon and California coastal art galleries.