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More Napa Landscape (with people) {El Dorado County Environmental Portrait Photographer}

        My favorite things combined:  Landscape photography and People Photography…all in one great weekend. These pics are from my weekend photo adventure and workshop with Mark Behrens and a bunch of wonderful photographers and models.  On Saturday we traveled around to a bunch of different wineries and vineyards searching for the National...

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A Weekend in Napa Valley {El Dorado County Portrait and Wedding Photographer}

  What a great time we had in Napa Valley this weekend.  The whole weekend was devoted to photography.  Saturday was spent studying landscape photography with the help of landscape photographer Dean Gufstason.  I learned so much from him.  He is an excellent photographer (click on his name to go to his web page) and...

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{El Dorado County Portrait Photographer} Lately, I’ve been…

Staying close to home with my family. Here’s the annual Mom’s Day Photo, taken after my three children took me out to lunch at Bricks in Placerville.  And it wouldn’t be my family if they didn’t harass me with at least one photo of them goofing around. Went to a high school play that my...

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{El Dorado County and Sacramento Portrait Photographer} The Photographer Takes a Self-Portrait and Examines the Photography Experience

Sometimes it does a photographer good to have her picture taken.  She finds that her empathy for her clients increases dramatically. Looking into the cold eye of the camera and having no idea what I look like puts the fear of God into anyone.  But, I knew I needed to update my profile pics, so...

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Lake Tahoe Photographer | An October Weekend in Lake Tahoe, CA

Black Bear and cub.  Unusual to see a blond Black Bear. This is a slideshow using images and video I made over two weekends in the Lake Tahoe Area.  We visited Sorenesens, Hope Valley, Taylor Creek, Emerald Bay and some other less known areas.  At Taylor Creek we were treated with a mother bear and...

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