Melody Thomas is an award winning photographer with a reputation for capturing the beauty of nature's abstract designs.

She uses no color filters, often spending days with her subject to learn what precise moment will provide the perfect light for the best color. When she is alone in the wilderness she tunes into her subject and allows it to guide her intuition to choose the single best image available.

She uses a large format 4 x 5 Tacahara camera. This provides a transparency from which a type R direct print is made. a type R print involves NO interneg, i.e., a negative made from a positive, a process with inherent loss of integrity. A direct print from a 4 x 5 transparency allows for complete color saturation and sharpness of detail in enlargement far superior in clarity to 35mm.

The stunning brilliance of the hues in Melody Thomas' work is due to her use of CIBACHROME (now ILFOCHROME) which is the highest quality, most fade-resistant photo color imaging paper available today. Prints are also available in the newest technology of CRYSTAL CHROME ARCHIVAL prints.

Melody's artistic sensitivity and the finest quality technique and materials combine to provide these museum quality fine art photographic originals.

Melody lives in upstate New York in the spring and summer where she works as a professional photographer for several whitewater rafting companies. She has had rafting photography published in Riverrunner, Bold and Outside magazines. Her photographs of ice formations on the Sacandaga River have appeared on the covers of Adirondack Life and Bold magazines.

She travels during the fall and winter photographing Zion, Escalante, Death Valley, and Slot Canyons as well as other subjects unique to the Southwest. Often she will be in the outback wilderness areas for a week at a time capturing a single image.

Beautyway postcards have published several of these images which are for sale at National Parks and gift stores in the Southwest, including Zion and Bryce National Parks, in the Kanab Ranger Station at the Grand Staircase National Monument and the Paria Ranger Station of Escalante Wilderness area.

Her work is displayed at the Four Seasons Gallery, Blue Mountain Pottery, Passages, and the Page, Arizona Chamber of Commerce.

Melody has donated prints to organizations working to preserve these fragile ecosystems for future generations. Ten percent of the profit from online sales are donated to organizations supporting the preservation of these areas.