Photo Lindley

Name: Photo Lindley
Address: Lakeland, FL, 33810, US
Telephone: +18632071364
Price range: $

🌿 Florida-based fine art photographer capturing the raw beauty of nature, landscapes, and wildlife. Visit my website for more!

Explore my high-end prints and discover the stories of our wild world. Can a picture give us a different perspective by seeing the world more clearly when we see it through the eyes of another? That is my question... Other then that I am just a Sarah taking photos of just about everything, hoping that one day my photos might make people think, react, change into better versions of themselves.

09/09/2026

Sometimes you freeze the moment instead of slowing it down. 🌊📸

I took this underneath the pier at St. Augustine Beach at sunrise.

I loved the repeating pattern of the pilings leading straight toward the light, but what really made the photograph for me was the water.

Instead of using a slow shutter speed to create that soft, silky-water look, I shot this at 1/2500 of a second. That let me freeze the wave as it crashed between the pilings, and catch all those tiny droplets lighting up in the morning sun.

📷 Canon 6D | Canon 24–105mm
⚡ 1/2500 | f/7.1 | ISO 800
Edited in Camera Raw + Photoshop

Swipe to see the finished photograph.

It's a good reminder that there isn't one "correct" way to photograph moving water. Sometimes you want to show the movement. Sometimes you want to freeze one tiny fraction of it.

Which would you choose here: fast shutter or long exposure?

09/08/2026

That pain in your neck might actually be your camera strap.

I stopped using the standard neck strap that came with my camera after hiking roughly 2 miles and 1,300 feet elevation on a desert mountain with my camera bouncing against my stomach the entire way.

By the time I reached the top, my neck hurt, my camera had practically beaten me half to death and I knew I needed a better option.

I eventually switched to an X-back camera harness that distributes the weight across my shoulders, keeps my hands free and lets me quickly reach my camera when a moment appears.

This isn’t sponsored, and I’m not saying everyone needs the same strap. The point is to choose equipment that fits the way you actually photograph.

What kind of camera strap do you use?

09/06/2026

Tripod specifications look wonderful at home.

1.4 kilograms.

Compact.

Carbon fibre.

Travel friendly.

Then you carry it around all day.

The real value of a tripod depends on whether the photographs you intend to make genuinely need it.

Long exposures?

Night scenes?

Careful landscape framing?

Absolutely.

Casual daylight wandering?

Maybe not.

The best tripod is not necessarily the lightest or strongest.

It's the one you'll actually carry when the photograph requires it.

Do you still routinely take a tripod when travelling?

09/04/2026

Sometimes the best view of a famous city isn’t the famous part. 📸

While we were in Athens, I caught the sun dropping behind the mountains and absolutely bathing the city in gold.

What caught my attention was all the layers: the rooftops in front of me, the city disappearing into the haze, the mountains in the distance, and then that huge burst of sunlight behind everything.

Shooting directly into a sunset can be challenging because you’re trying to balance an incredibly bright sky with a much darker foreground. I photographed it in RAW, protected the brighter parts of the image as much as I could, and then brought back some of the city detail during editing.

📷 Canon 6D | Canon 24–105mm
1/250 sec | f/7.1 | ISO 600
Edited in Camera Raw + Photoshop

Swipe over to see the finished shot.

And here’s a photography question for you: When you see a great sunset, do you photograph the sunset, or turn around and see what the light is doing behind you?

09/03/2026

How many camera lenses does it take to make you a good photographer?

If you looked at the collection on my table, you might assume the answer is “all of them.” Although one is actually a drinking cup disguised as a lens. 😂

Having a good lens is wonderful. Better equipment can make certain photographs easier to capture, but most of my favorite photographs were taken with one lens I bought used on Facebook Marketplace.

It wasn’t the newest lens. It wasn’t the most expensive, but I carried it on trip after trip and learned exactly what it could do.

I learned where it performed well, where it struggled and how to work within those limitations.

The best lens isn’t necessarily the most expensive one in your camera bag. It’s the one you understand well enough to use when the right moment appears.

Photographers, what lens do you use most often?

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08/30/2026

This is where my photography story began.

The Pentax K1000 I’m holding is exactly like the camera I learned to use in my college photography classes. We learned on film which means I’m old, but it also meant there was no screen on the back showing whether we had gotten the photograph right.

Every frame cost money. We had to understand focus and exposure, pay attention to the light and think carefully before pressing the shutter.

Then we developed the film, crossed our fingers and hoped for the best.

Photography has changed tremendously since then, but those early lessons still influence every photograph I create. Every image I’ve taken since began with learning the fundamentals on a camera just like this one.

And I don’t regret it.

Although, dude… we spent so much money on film. 😂

Did you ever own a film camera? What kind did you have?

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08/27/2026

Sometimes bad weather makes the shot. 🌧️📸

It had been raining at EPCOT, and while everyone else was probably wishing for the weather to clear, I was looking at all that water on the ground thinking… reflection.

I got down low, used the wet pavement to reflect Spaceship Earth, and suddenly the rain became one of my favorite parts of the photograph.

That's one of the things I love about photography. The conditions don't always have to be perfect. Sometimes the clouds, rain, fog, wind or whatever else wasn't in the plan are exactly what make the photo interesting.

Swipe to see the shot and the camera settings I used. ➡️

And next time you're out taking photos and the weather turns bad, don't put the camera away quite yet. Look around. There might be a photograph you couldn't have gotten on a perfectly sunny day.

08/25/2026

I’m not an astrophotographer—but this one time, in this one place, I captured the photograph I had always dreamed about.

Living in Central Florida, there’s usually too much light pollution around me to photograph the Milky Way properly. So, when I planned my first trip to the American Southwest, I decided this was my chance.

I researched how to photograph the night sky, rented a lens—because good lenses are expensive—and carried everything with me to Utah.

One night, we were tent camping at a little RV resort outside Moab. The sky was darker and more beautiful than anything I was accustomed to seeing in Florida. Enormous red cliffs surrounded the campground, creating the perfect earthly backdrop against the vastness of space.

I looked at the cliffs, looked at the Milky Way and thought, “This might be the place.”

I set up my tripod, pointed my camera toward the stars and took the shot.

And I was right.

Have you ever seen the Milky Way with your own eyes?

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08/19/2026

Sometimes the photograph you want most is the one that makes you work the hardest.

During my October trip to Acadia National Park, there was one image I desperately wanted to bring home: Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse surrounded by the color and atmosphere of a real Maine autumn.

But every attempt failed.

Sunrise brought fog. Evening brought rain. The next day brought even more rain.

On my last full day in Acadia, I decided to give it one final chance. I arrived two hours early, carefully climbed down the slick rocks and set up along the shoreline.

As the tide came in, cold ocean spray soaked my legs and hands. I kept lifting my tripod between the waves, trying to protect my camera while waiting for something—anything—to happen.

Then, as the sun began to set, it slipped beneath the clouds. For approximately five minutes, the entire landscape exploded with light and color.

Everything I had imagined was suddenly right in front of me.

Days of trying. Hours of waiting. Five minutes to capture it.

This was the result—and a reminder that sometimes the most beautiful moments are the ones you have to fight for.

Would you have kept going back after all that rain?

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08/13/2026

Sometimes a photograph begins before you ever pick up the camera.

I had driven past Southgate Shopping Center in Lakeland more times than I could count. But one night, just after the rain stopped, I suddenly imagined its enormous neon sign reflecting across the puddles in the empty parking lot.

It was already after midnight, but once I saw the photograph in my mind, I knew I had to try to capture it.

I grabbed my camera and tripod and headed back out. The entire shopping center was quiet and empty, and for a little while, it felt like I had a movie set all to myself.

That description is especially fitting because Southgate appeared in Edward Scissorhands! Its iconic space-age arch was built in 1957 and remains one of Lakeland’s most recognizable landmarks.

The glowing reflections on the wet pavement turned out just as I had envisioned them—and the finished image has become one of my more popular fine-art prints.

What memories do you have of Southgate?

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