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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. 

Category Archives: Christmas

Is this the face of our television future?

My husband brought home a bunch of cool 3D glasses from a store on Friday night so that we could see a couple of Super Bowl commercials in 3D.  The commercials were pretty cool, but I thought the people in my house were much more interesting.
Above, the men watch the game in the “man cave”. ...

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I found the coolest tool…

It’s called Wordle and it’s free. What is it, you say?
Wordle creates word collages or “word clouds” as they call it.  You paste in some text and Wordle picks up words from the text and makes a cloud of the words that are prominent in that text.  It ends up looking like this:
The text I...

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Family Christmas Favorites

We had our major Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve this year because that was the best time to get the entire family together.  All my children were present along with my mother-in-law and my son’s girlfriend and her little boy (pictured above.)  My husband prepared a fantastic meal of prime rib, roasted potatoes, peas with...

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Christmas at my house

It’s been a rough season for us as my dad has been in and out of the hospital since the middle of November.   This will be the first Christmas that he has not spent with his family…ever.  He’s in a full care nursing  facility at this point after living in an assisted living apartment just...

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Christmas Oldies

I just uploaded the new version of Pro Photo and I am still trying to work out the bugs.  Bear with me while I contact my web page guru (aka my brother) for assistance.  I think my new web page look will dazzle even the most jaded.
You can look at some Christmas ornament photos while...

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