Join us for First Friday in Littleton Ft David Lynn
2590 W Main St
11.7.2025, 6-9pm
Meet David
David Townsend has been a full-time, professional photographer for 25 years. He started out photographing nature & landscapes on 35mm, medium format, and large format film cameras, worked in a portrait studio for 7 years, and started David Lynn Photography with his wife, Lynn Townsend.
David has photographed everything from landscapes to weddings, portraits, real estate, food, and more. His travels include states throughout the Mountain West USA, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia. With a passion for travel & photography, he brings that appreciation of the outdoors to everything he can, highlighting the environment with the subjects he photographs.
David lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and business partner, Lynn, and their two children. David & Lynn own and operate David Lynn Photography, based out of StudioWed at 8th & Santa Fe in Denver’s Arts District on Santa Fe.
Learn more about David in our Q+A!
How did your business come to exist? My wife and I are both photographers, and we met at a photo gallery in Denver, where we both had entered photos in a print competition. We met at the Artist Reception, began dating a year later, and three years after that we got married and started our business together.
What are you working on right now? This week included photographing a wedding in Idaho Springs, a branding photo session for a Boulder startup company, and curating artists for the upcoming First Friday Artwalk at our studio in the Santa Fe Arts District.
What are your thoughts about your city's creative scene for artists, designers, crafters, makers, and/or small businesses? Denver's art scene is amazing! We own a studio in the Santa Fe Arts District in Denver, and we are open each First Friday Artwalk where we host guests artists each month, often times new or emerging artists. The level of creativity we see each month is astounding and it's ever growing.
What do you like to do outside of work? For fitness, it's definitely mountain biking in summer and telemark skiing in winter. Creatively, its abstract painting with acrylics, listening to music, being the drummer in a band with friends, and of course taking photos any travels we happen to be doing.
What is the best piece of advice you ever received? Early on when fist starting a solo photography business, there was often the temptation to offer discounts to friends and close acquaintances to build up your portfolio or try to win clients, but it was often hard to know how to approach that as each situation is unique. Best advice for that I received was plain and simple: “Just call them all your friends and charge them the same full price”
Where do you find inspiration? Definitely light. It’s what photography is all about, so when the light is good it always makes me want to grab whatever camera I have on hand and create photos.
What is your dream project? Travel to all of the countries and regions on my “favorites” list photographing landscapes on commissioned assignments, and do some volunteer or service for local communities while I’m traveling through, particularly if it can involve photography or videography.
What was the best day at work you've had in the past three months? Some of my favorite days are the most productive ones that involve lots of creativity. One of my recent Fridays consisted of a morning Real Estate shoot for a West + Main luxury home, then a consult with a client to plan for an upcoming product content shoot, then off to our studio in Denver’s Santa Fe Arts District for the First Friday Artwalk, where we show our Fine Art Photography and also host other amazing artists for the night’s event. It’s always a great night of community and conversation involving creativity and travel.
Get in touch with David
Instagram: @davidlynnfineart
Website: davidlynnphoto.com
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