About Me

Darlene Lyon Kruse is a landscape, nature & fine art photographer in southern Oregon. She photographs at many locations in Oregon, including Ashland, Medford, Jacksonville, the Rogue Valley; at the coastal communities Bandon, Charleston, & Brookings; at Ft. Klamath, Crater Lake, & the Rogue Gorge.


Her subjects include people, places, environment & events of southern Oregon, for use in calendars, greeting cards, editorial, advertising, marketing, PR campaigns, annual reports, tourism publications, & décor. Her images have appeared in books, regional publications, tourism brochures, annual reports, private collections, & galleries.

Darlene teaches group and private photography classes, leads photography workshops throughout southern Oregon, and manages workshops for other local pros. In 2010 she will introduce a winter workshop series focusing on creativity, vision, and photo-illustration. The winter workshops will be lead by Darlene and other professional photographers who are based in Ashland, Oregon.