SPEAKER: JOHN C. THOMAS
Website: catchlight.ws

“46 Years of Commercial Photography - A Retrospective”

Owner of Catchlight, a commercial photography studio established to craft distinctive digital photography.

Photographer John C. Thomas is equally at home photographing people, places and things in the studio and on location. John’s portfolio work includes people, products, food, architecture, aviation, aerial, panoramic landscape and corporate work for annual reports, brochures, catalogs, books, websites and many other applications.

PHOTOGRAPHER OF FOOD • INDUSTRIAL • PRODUCTS • PEOPLE

While on a family vacation at age 14, John had a once-in-a-lifetime experience assisting Julius Shulman, a Life Magazine architectural photographer, with a photo shoot of a resort. From the first click of the shutter, John knew he had found his calling. He grew to love aviation, a fascination he was able to pair with photography throughout his career. John is just as comfortable shooting a portrait for an annual report as he is taking photos in the wilderness, from the air or in fisheye’s kitchen studio.

“I consider it a privilege to be called upon to help some of the best marketing communications professionals to produce positive results through my images.”

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John Thomas and CATCHLIGHT STUDIOS...
Not many people can say they have worked their whole career in a field they absolutely love. Thanks to you I have enjoyed a long and wonderful career promoting your brands through the art of photography. I was asked what makes my job special? First, the relationships, second, the challenge! I never knew what the day might bring. From -15 degrees below zero knee deep in snow photographing timber harvesting to +110 degrees photographing
the cockpit of Arnold Palmer's jet to luscious food. Photographing nuclear rods in the moon pool of lowa's only nuclear reactor, the first robotic surgery in our area, Bo Diddley with the lowa Hawkeyes, and the President of the United States. I've hung out of helicopters, bucket trucks, and climbed the tallest grain bins. I have to give a shout out to Mitchell & Benson Photography, DLJ Studios, and the guys at fisheye for making room for me in 2002.