Melissa M. Harden at Studio 21

“A photo is of someone a portrait is about someone.” - Tony Corbell


Melissa has had a fondness for photography since she was in her senior year of high school where she was given an assignment by a teacher to photograph the local Special Olympics. With borrowed cameras, she took a class at Lake Land College where she learned composition and film developing (told you it was long ago). Since then she has been the family historian of sorts which has proven to be physically demanding since sister runs and ducks when she sees her camera. It wasn’t until 2013 that her shutterbug hobby blossomed into a full-blown business. She specializes in male and senior portraiture along with modern glamour while she is most passionate about professional headshots. Melissa is greatly pained by the plethora of crummy selfies.

When she isn’t writing about herself in the third person, she works on personal projects such as the Bearded Wonder Project, and the Tatted Wonder Series