Tag Archives: “El Dorado County”

Take-a-photo-a-day Challenge or I must be crazy to try this. (El Dorado County Portrait Photographer)

I think I might have mentioned that I decided to try the 365 Challenge:  Take one Meaningful Photo per day.  I think the key word here is “meaningful”.  I can click the shutter all day long at any shiny, pretty, colorful thing I see.  I call it Crow Photography.  (I have coined the phrase, so...

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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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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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My Last “Studio Lights” Assignment

I’m just finishing up my last “studio lights” portrait assignment for the Folsom Lake College Portrait and Wedding Photography class I’m doing.  So, as usual, I called in the fam.  Pictured here are my headless oldest son, my son’s headless girlfriend and her little boy (not headless).  He’s been in many of my pictures before...

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Rest in peace, dad. I love you.

My dad, Richard M. Thomas, passed away quietly on January 4, 2009.  He suffered a stroke in November and his health went from bad to worse.  We celebrated his life at a funeral service on January 13, 2009. It was a beautiful service in a little chapel in Placerville.  Since my dad was in the...

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