I’m Lou Cifelli, Welcome to my Webpage!
My interest in art began at an early age.
I was drawing freehand in the 3rd grade.
I was fascinated with horses and dolphins.
What began as an interest in drawing them in pencil developed
into an ambition to capture them in color.
I used colored
pencils to do this. The
more I would draw the more interested I became in capturing other
things. Being a child
of the sixties I began to draw cartoon characters from books, then I
began to draw characters from my favorite television shows.
I would watch them for hours until I completed the drawing.
I began to draw Actors and Actresses, then Athletes.
Everything was in pencil and copied from photographs. I then became fascinated with color. After trying oil painting-unsuccessfully-I became obsessed with light and color. Well... photography fit the bill! If I couldn’t paint it with oil I could use another tool...a camera!!
I began with a Kodak rangefinder and graduated to a Yashica SLR.
Well, that is in the past, now I use Canon EOS SLR’s and lenses and
shoot digitally.
Photography is my passion.
I belong to the Santa Clarita Valley Photographers Association in southern California and I am currently a member of the Board. My photographs have won awards locally since 2004. You can view them here.
They can also be ordered and printed on request-just e-mail me for pricing or request a FREE 8x10!
My library of stock photos is very large and forever expanding.
If you do not see it just ask!!
It contains Wildlife, Flowers and Macro Photography.
