The Team

Ellie Vayo

Owner, Master Photographer, National Craftsman, Cpp., Api
Ellie has lectured throughout the country at many major state conventions and seminars as part of the Fuji Talent Team.  She is also an accomplished author whose articles on senior portraiture have been featured in several professional photographers' magazines including Rangefinder, Studio Design Magazine, Lens magazine, and Professional Photographer Magazine.  An updated version of her Art and Business of High School Seniors, available through Amherst Media, will be available in the spring of 2009. Her new book, Ellie Vayo's Guide to Boudoir Photography is in bookstores now!

Ellie holds a Master of Photography and Craftsman degree, as well as a Professional Photographers of America (PPA) certification and Ohio CPP.  She has won numerous photographic print exhibit awards, including the J. Anthony Bull Award for the most outstanding portrait in Ohio.  Five of her images have been Loan Collection prints and have been published in PPA's prestigious Loan Collection book.