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.