My Covered Bridge Project

When I was at the Professional Photographer Association of Pennsylvania Convention in State College, PA. last month, I attended a seminar on fine art photography. This is an area of photography that I always wanted to get involved in but never had the time. It's photographing scenics or places and things that are not people. I have always created portraits of people and said that I couldn't take a picture unless there was a person in it.

I was so impressed with the speakers and what they do that I decided to give myself an assignment. My idea was to photograph covered bridges. I went online and discovered that I lived in the perfect place. Washington County Pennsylvania has 22 covered bridges. So my project for the weekends this summer is to photograph every covered bridge in Washington County and turn each image into a fine art painting. My goal is to publish a book of "The Covered Bridges of Washington County". I'm going to print fine art prints of each bridge and mat and frame them into finished fine art pieces.

I started my project this past weekend on Sunday, May 16. I photographed the first three bridges. Pictured here is the first bridge. The Hughes Bridge built in 1889. I also photographed the Bailey Bridge and the Day Bridge. Next weekend I will continue on the covered bridge tour and hopefully get more. It's really turning into fun.

Brianne Roman BVAHS Class of 2011

Brianne was the second place winner in our Senior Portrait contest. She won her choice of three sessions and a five pose senior portrait package worth $1006. She sure is a winner! Wow! She chose to do the Classic Yearbook session, the "Loft", and next week she will finish with "Backstreets". You can her entire gallery on Facebook or on savarino-studio.com in the "Featured Galleries" http://savarino-studio.com/index2.php?v=v1#/featured/ .

It was truly a pleasure to photograph Brianne. Her clothing choices and her photogenic attitude made every image beautiful. It was a rainy, dreary day when we went to the loft, but you would never know it looking at the portraits. The light was magical. I have to take the credit for these fantastic images. I have turned "the loft" into my "special place" for creating some of the most beautiful all natural lighting. Believe it or not it's done with reflectors and a lot of them. Most of the reflectors that I use are my own special design. You can only get "Master" portraits like these at the Savarino Studio Photography. I sure would love to create special portraits for you too.

Prom Night 2010

Just wanted to tell all the high school people who are going to the prom to have a GREAT time! AND be careful! The prom should be a wonderful memory that you keep with you your whole life. Make sure it is a pleasant memory. Believe it or not, I attended 4 proms in my early life and every one of them is a treasured memory. I wish you all the same. Enjoy your prom.

First Senior Class of 2011 !!!

Wow! Let the games begin! The Class of 2011 has officially begun. It was really a fun experience to start the season off with Stephanie Powell from Ringgold High School Class of 2011. We started at the loft. It's the first time that I have ever photographed a senior with their pet (a cat) at the loft.

I love to try new things. What ideas do you have? I really want to do some really new and different things this year.

Let's give it a go!

A fantastic wedding on May 1st.

Wow! I had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of Kristen and Matt Cavanaugh at Jumonville. I really enjoyed it because it was the first wedding of the year and the setting was beautiful. What made it really fun was that I was trying new techniques that I had contemplated in the winter. Everything was a success! Except one thing! I took way too many images. Now I have to spend hours editing what I have done. The results will be awesome.

Senior Recognition Day at Ringgold

I had the pleasure of photographing senior recognition of the Ringgold senior baseball players this afternoon. What a great day for pictures .

You can view these images at www.savarino-studio.com Select "Client Events".

Facebook

We have been really busy on Facebook. I have been posting specials for high school seniors and showing the different styles that can be achieved with each different session. I sure hope I not overdoing it. I really like Facebook. It's really nice to see what everyone is doing.

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