J Thomas Photography

Welcome to the new site

Posted on October 18, 2011 by joel

I’m proud to launch my new, updated photography site and blog. It’s been several months in the making, and has seen a few different designs before ending up with this one. I’m excited to have a new place to showcase my photography, and to also blog about all the photo adventures I get to go on.

One of my favorite features about the website is that it’s built on a responsive foundation, which means it’s ready to scale for any screen size on any device; iPhone, iPad, Android, Netbook, Laptop, Desktop, and more. Go ahead and resize your browser window and watch the layout adjust accordingly. Pretty cool!

I’m excited to start focusing on photography as a business again. Over the last 18 months or so I’ve been studying more and learning new techniques and skills that deal with lighting, from using and manipulating existing light to creating light of my own to get the exact shot I want. Along the way I’ve had lots of help and inspiration from some of the great photographers I know like Kenneth Linge, Zack Arias, Scott Jarvie, Pete Stott, Jeremy Hall, Jess Curren, Ryan Romeike, and many others. I really love the photography community here in Utah and around the world. It’s a fantastic hobby and profession to be in.

So welcome to my new site! Have a look around, and be sure to bookmark the RSS feed so you can follow me around on my adventures!

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Lindsay Aline at the School of Rock

Posted on September 27, 2010 by joel

Meet Lindsay Aline, the super talented pianist vocalist from San Francisco. She recently released her debut album filled with songs written and performed by her (remember how I said super talented?). As she’s picking up steam she also recently acquired a few members to join her band, and pooled them from the Salt Lake School of Rock. Yesterday she was doing her first mini-concert with her band and asked me to come along and take some photos – to which I enthusiastically said yes! So, without further ado, I give you Lindsay Aline.

Be sure to check out the whole mini-shoot on my smugmug gallery.

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The Bellon Family

Posted on September 24, 2010 by joel

A few years ago my sister Calli set me up with her good friends across the street to do some family photos for them. And now a few years later they asked me to do them again! Only this time we had a much better setting (yep, my parents backyard again) and I had a much better camera and a lot more experience.

We had a lot of fun, and the kids did a marvelous job of cooperating. I just love how the pictures turn out back there, it’s such a gorgeous setting. If you want to get some photos done there, or are a photographer and would like to shoot there, let me know and we’ll get something worked out!

If you’re interested in seeing the whole shoot, go ahead and check out the gallery on my Smugmug.