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My name is Karen Schmautz and I live in beautiful El Dorado County of Northern California.  I am a photographer specializing in weddings, portraits and events. 

Monthly Archives: October 2008

Vermont: Day Two

So…we recovered from our day at four airports and a bad hotel experience.  It was fairly easy to recover when we began driving around the Burlington, VT area.  Burlington is the largest city in Vermont, but it only has about 40,000 full time residents.  There were at least 3 colleges that I saw, which I’m...

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Vermont: A Californian’s First Peep

The Vermonters call it “leaf peeping”.  That’s when Vermont fills up with tourists viewing, enjoying and photographing the beautiful colors of fall that Vermont has in abundance.
We were lucky enough to visit Vermont last week when the fall colors were at their peek.  This photo was in Smugglers Notch, Vermont, where we stayed for the...

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Dance the Dance

My friend Lesley, one of the dancers, gave me a little history of the dance and the American Tribal Style of Belly Dancing. So, I did a little bit of research on belly-dancing because I was so fascinated with this particular photo shoot.  This was such a wonderful opportunity to be on the inside of...

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The Art of Belly Dancing: not for the faint of heart

To continue my story of my photography adventure this weekend…my husband and I drove over to Murphys, CA, to photograph a belly dancing troupe known as The Sisterhood of the Dancing goddess.  I think that the troupe has six women of various ages, however, I was only able to photograph 5 of the women.  These...

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A Visit to Murphys, CA

My husband and I visited Murphys, CA over the weekend.  Murphys is in Calaveras County, CA, in the mid Sierras south of where I live.  We visited Murphys for a couple of reasons.  The first reason was I had an opportunity to photograph a belly-dancing troupe who were going to be performing in Murphys. Second...

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