About Catchlight

Catchlight is a commercial photography studio established to craft distinctive digital photography.

Tell your story through results-driven photography by one of Eastern Iowa’s most experienced commercial photographers. Based in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa metro area, Catchlight has created award-winning images for clients promoting healthcare, heavy machinery, education, fast food and more.

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.

John C. Thomas

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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.”