With the recent flooding in Northeast Ohio and possibly more high water on the way, I decided to put together several tips to save water-damaged, heirloom photos. When floods and fires hit, most people don’t grieve losing a stove or couch. It’s the loss of valued family photos, scrapbooks and memorabilia that makes them cry. Living [...]
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Before-and-after photos show how badly damaged pictures can be restored to their original glory. The North Ridgeville Arts Council invites the community to a special presentation: “Photo Restoration – The Art and Science of Resurrecting Damaged and Faded Photographs.” It will be presented by Mark Madere – a professional photographer based in North Ridgeville. He [...]
SpectraLight Photography is honored to be selected to create five photographs for the Bicentennial Edition of North Ridgeville Magazine (http://glpdigitaleditions.com/publication/?i=35296). The photos are featured on pages 6-7 (photo of South Central Park) which was also featured on the 2010 North Ridgeville Rotary Calendar, pages 32-33 (Lou Gaeta and Nicole Gerome), pages 34-35 (John Kapelka and Hampton [...]
Adrienne Gaggi has some modeling training and she obviously learned well. Rarely do I see a high school girl easily show such a wide variety of expressions – and soooooooooo effortlessly. Adrienne, thanks for a GREAT photo shoot! Now if I could just find some girls like Adrienne from the class of 2012 to be Facebook models [...]
I met Richard Cordray in 2008 when he was campaigning for Ohio Attorney General. I was hired to photograph two of his appearances in Cleveland for publicity purposes. After he was elected, I had the privilege of photographing his inauguration in Columbus. I am usually skeptical of anyone running for elected office – always wondering [...]
Ashley Butcher, our North Ridgeville Class of 2011 SpokesModel, showed off a variety of looks for her senior portraits. Watch the video and see for yourself.
A few weeks ago, I photographed Katie Olson of Olmsted Falls who is considering a career in modeling. Here’s a video from her session at Huntington Beach in Bay Village.
Americans spent $74 billion just to say “I Do” last year. A story on ABC’s Nightline focused on a couple that budgeted a “mere” $75,000.00 for their wedding. So what could possibly add up to that kind of figure? For starters, they spent over $9000.00 for French tips and pedicures for the bride, mom [...]
Last week, I was blessed with the opportunity to photograph my third member of the Liddy family from Olmsted Falls. Sean, like Donnie and Melanie before him, was fun to photograph. His confident manner was easy to capture in his portraits. Just like his parents, Teri and Don, Sean will be the kind of person to [...]
Kara Solomon – SpectraLight Senior Portrait Scholarship Winner Recently, I had the opportunity to photograph Kara Solomon – a North Ridgeville High School senior who is truly a “free-spirit.” Kara’s energy and playfulness made the session “fly” by as seen in one of her portraits here. What made her session extra special is that she [...]
