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Sofia Jaramillo

Sofia Jaramillo Captures Lake Tahoe for National Geographic & Visit Reno Tahoe

National Geographic Explorer Sofia Jaramillo photographs Lake Tahoe leisure, wilderness, and the Reno-Tahoe region for Visit Reno Tahoe. A person in swim trunks jumps off a large rock into clear blue lake water, surrounded by trees and distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky. See how documentary photographer Sofia Jaramillo framed Lake Tahoe's calm waters and alpine wilderness for National Geographic and Visit Reno Tahoe. A kayak with a yellow bag on its bow glides over clear blue lake water, surrounded by rocky shores and dense forest under a partly cloudy sky. Photographer Sofia Jaramillo captures Lake Tahoe leisure and wilderness for a National Geographic travel story with Visit Reno Tahoe. A person paddleboards on clear blue water surrounded by large rocks, with sunlight casting reflections and shadows beneath the surface.

Give a documentary photographer an alpine lake and she’ll find the human rhythm in it. For a National Geographic branded travel story produced with Visit Reno Tahoe, photographer Sofia Jaramillo traveled across Nevada’s Reno-Tahoe region, from the high desert’s “singing” dunes at Sand Mountain to Reno’s river corridor, with Lake Tahoe as the centerpiece. It’s easy to see why. The largest alpine lake in North America sits about an hour west of Reno, and Jaramillo shoots it the way locals experience it. Leisure on the water and the wilderness around it become one continuous landscape. That documentary instinct is the throughline of the whole assignment. A National Geographic Explorer known for putting real people in real environments, Jaramillo treats destination work less as a checklist of sights and more as a feeling, clear blue water, big sky, room to breathe. It’s travel imagery that makes the case for Reno-Tahoe by showing what a day there actually feels like.

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