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[El Dorado County Area Portrait Photographer] Print competition winners

Last night my camera club, El Dorado Camera Club, had a print competition.  The club hosts a print competition three times per year and it gives the members a chance to exhibit their work and have it judged by an impartial non-member judge in front of the other members.  In other words, one needs to...

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El Dorado County, Sacramento area portrait photographer| Cameron Park Library Print Showing

Our camera club, El Dorado Camera Club, has been invited to show some of the members photos in the Cameron Park Library.  I have the honor of being the first one to show my prints.  There is room for 6-8 prints and so I have been poring over my photos trying to find a theme...

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I won!

well, the Sacramento Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk competition, that is. (Sacramento, CA USA (Old Sacramento & Railway Museum)) Now…on to the Worldwide competition. This shot was a last minute edit and entry.  I saw and photographed this train early on in my walk through the museum. I saw lots of other photogs taking pics...

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One of my landscape photos got published in two online pubs…

I like to do landscape photography, but it’s not really my strong point.  However, I submitted this photo to Snapixel Magazine and it was published last month in their online mag.  Here’s the link: Sawmill Fishing Hole This is an HDR photo that I took last fall in South Lake Tahoe.  I saw this weird...

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Well, here’s an interesting development…

My friend Eric Courtney, who writes for the examiner, wrote an article about me.  Heh…I’m a little gobsmacked. “Karen Schmautz.  Telling Stories with Photographs” “This week we focus on talented photographer who specializes in a lot of different areas of photography. You could say she fits in the All of the Above category. It is...

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