Bio
Jayme Sun Thomas, "Sunpuperwolf", Professional Wildlife Photographer and Naturalist, grew up with her younger Brother raised by their Mom, who took Jayme and her Brother camping frequently in the beautiful Pine Forests of the San Bernardino Mountains, Lake Tahoe, Idlewild, and Yosemite National Park, where she experienced the beautiful sounds and sights of Wildlife around her when she hiked the trails, slept in tents, built campfires, and roughed it in the wilds. Jayme, later in her youth, backpacked high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains over Mammoth and experienced the beauty of Wildlife and Nature above Timberline!
Jayme and her fellow backpackers, hiked 7 miles uphill every day, for a total of 7 days, finally landing in a landscape where all the backpackers set up camp, put stakes in their tents tied to pine trees, laid their sleeping bags down on the earth, and cooked their meals with cookware that they had packed into their 50 lb backpacks to hike into the upper Sierras, before nightfall. Jayme, though, was so full of energy, that she wanted to continue hiking and exploring the beautiful forest, so she would set up her camp site, and take off hiking till dusk all alone!
On the 7th night before it got dark, Jayme hiked up some boulders for 3 hours, climbing excitedly with intense curiosity to see what lie over the top of them. When Jayme climbed over all of the boulders, she found the most beautiful lake she had ever seen in a very secluded location surrounded by gorgeous wildflowers everywhere in sight! All of it so remote that it seemed no human had ever found this beautiful site before! Jayme had discovered a paradise at the top of the world, it seemed! Jayme walked to the very edge of the surrounding wildflowers on that island and there was a good 700 ft drop below that overlooked the high Sierra Nevada mountains covered in snow at Timberline. It was overlooking a very pretty deep blue lake, which she later found out was Thousand Island Lake. Most of that lake was frozen over and the water that wasn't frozen was freezing ice cold!
It was getting late after the long hike, and Jayme had to go back to camp where they were cooking beans for supper before it got completely dark. So in order to really experience the lake and wildflowers fully, Jayme laid down in the surrounding tall waist high grass and wildflowers on her back for a good 13 minutes and stared straight up at the blue sky through the tall wildflowers where she saw Red Shouldered Hawks soaring under a few snowy white clouds as they called out piercing hunting calls in the Forest! Jayme felt like she was a part of the earth, and it felt so beautiful and peaceful!
The backpackers had given Jayme a nickname, since she loved to go hiking alone for a couple of hours every night... They called her "Wanderer", so before she hiked down off of that lake she had discovered, she gave the lake an official name, "Wanderer Lake!" Jayme found a small pebble in the lake and carved "Wanderer Lake", into the soil next to it, and tossed the pebble back into the lake. Jayme was so unbelievably euphoric and filled with energy when she got back to camp when it was past dusk, and decided to keep the lake discovery all to herself since she felt she had discovered a paradise in the Sierras that was so personal to her! Jayme never shared what she had found with any of the backpackers...and never shared what she had found with any human being until around 2020, and only then with her Mom and brother. The backpacking trip was in 1976.
Jayme got intrigued at around age 10 by a book, titled, "The Call of the Wild", by Jack London, and studied everything about the behaviors and beauty of Wolves, building a giant collection of books on Wolves that she still owns till this day. It was Jayme's dream at a very young age, to someday live in the wilds of Alaska with Wolves, and eat, sleep, and hunt with them, all to study their behavior in the wild. It was at age 19, when Jayme adopted the identity of "Sunpuperwolf", since she felt energized like the sun's rays, was a young pup, like a Wolf Pup, at age 19, and really felt like a Wolf in a Human's body, thus the name, "Sunpuperwolf!" Over the last 10 years, Jayme has studied and collected approximately 200 books on wild animals, wildlife behavior, and wildlife photography.
When Jayme entered College in her late 20's, she worked on a Biochemistry Degree for a limited time, licensed as an EMT for 17 years, and as she was taking courses in College, Jayme realized that she would rather be surrounded by Nature, Hiking, and Photographing Wildlife, rather than working in a Lab as a Chemist for her Profession. Jayme has earned 3 Associates Degrees, in Photography, and in Photography Fine Arts. She has published three Wildlife articles in Outdoor Writers Association of America's Outdoor's Unlimited publication, had an article she wrote on Black Tailed Mule Deer, published in the Signal Newspaper, has published 7 Nature and Wildlife Photo books, a Native American Indian book, has juried an OWAA Photography Competition, has exhibited 27 of her images in Photography and Art Exhibitions, and has earned several ribbons in Photography competitions.
Jayme lives and breathes Wildlife Photography, where hiking in the Woodlands and at the Lake, gives her peace and energy every time that she observes a Wild Animal behavior as they are interacting with another species, as well as with prey/predators, in their natural habitat. The Circle of Life is what she strives to capture with every shot. Due to Jayme's Love of all Animals, she fears the threats of Extinction that continue to challenge their survival and contribution of Biodiversity on Earth. It is Jayme's hope to instill the feeling in Mankind of the beauty and peacefulness that Wildlife contributes to this Planet in order to generate funding for the protection and preservation of the world's Wildlife Species.