Between Friday night and Saturday morning this week (April 30th to May 1st), Lynn and Curt Seedens photography studio was broken into and all the tools of their livelihood were taken--compounding the effects of an already detrimental business year due to the Covid shutdown.  

Lynn and Curt have been major champions for our Fountain Valley community.  They are the duo behind our wonderful, and free, monthly Fountain Valley Living Magazine.  They are part of the team behind the various community events put on at Heritage Park (Christmas in the Gazebo). If you hear about Cash Mobs set up in support of small businesses within our city, you can best believe they played a hand in those too! The Seedens are our community's unsung heroes and the list of things they do for us are too many to list.  

With that said, we are setting up a GoFundMe for them to help them get back on their feet.  Anything our community can give back to the Seedens will help them replace the camera gear they lost in this huge violation to their business and get back to work. Lynn and Curt would never ask for help and so, as her friends, we’re doing it for them!



This was Lynn’s share on her personal Facebook page:

“Trying to wrap my head around this.

Our Seeden Photography studio was broken into last night.

Police responded quickly after our office neighbor called FVPD. They also went looking through the Los Cab complex for any possibilities...

Curt is out renting equipment for me as we speak so we can complete a client job today.

I'm grateful for a fantastic business neighbor who has stayed with us for the morning, for FVPD, and for our daughter Kristal who has started searching online sales for our possible stolen equipment.

Expensive loss, expensive lesson. They took my business just as we were finally reopening,  but they can't take our spirit or our training.”

Updated from the Lynn Seeden:
Friends have asked us for a list of what camera equipment was stolen over the weekend, particularly so folks could keep an eye out online for them.
We had two cameras and 10 lenses (plus other accessories in our camera bag).
Here is an almost-complete list of gear, along with photo samples, and some of the serial numbers...
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Canon 5D Mark III (camera body, black Canon 5D shoulder strap)
5260B002
SERIAL NUMBER 092024000992
Canon 5D Mark III (camera body, PINK personal shoulder strap with leather ends)
5260B002
SERIAL NUMBER 342022000116
Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 IS (large long lens that is white /cream with black bands and a black hood)
2751B002
Serial No. 216150004311
But the serial number embedded in the lens (the number that shows up in every image I take using this lens) is
00008301c0
Canon EF 75-300mm 4-5.6 III
Serial No. 214341306906
Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8 II USM lens (heavy lens, black with hood)
Serial No. 0720004783
Still looking for serial numbers for these:
Tamron 90mm macro lens (black)
Has a white piece of paper taped around the top of the lens with my handwritten camera settings on it.
Tamron 60mm macro lens (black)
Canon 50mm 1.4 lens
Canon 85mm 1.4 lens
Canon 16-35 lens (somewhat heavy lens, black with a hood)
Canon 100-300mm lens
Canon 10-18mm lens
White rubber flash diffuser (Gary Fong brand)
Speedlight 580 EX (off-camera flash)
Speedlight 580 EX (off-camera flash)
Roller bag / camera bag, black, fairly large, where much of these items were stored
There were dozens of camera memory cards in the camera bag.
Inside my camera bag were my business cards, memory sticks, cables, inhaler, pens, paper, padding for the camera lenses.