A View to Remember!
Photographs are memories. We look at them and cherish them and sometimes we forget moments and sights we wished we had captured. I was contacted by a client to do something for her friend as a birthday gift. A spectacular view that will be missed as they are moving to
Happy 4th of July!! {3 Ways to Process)
Happy 4th to all my fellow Americans! To the rest of my readers, Happy Wednesday! This past Friday evening I headed to the city to do some shooting! When I started processing these shots, one of them that I wanted to post for today I ended up processing it 3
10 Things I Wished I Had Learned Sooner
I wrote a post like this over a year ago on my old blog. Back then it was a simple list of 10 things. It was simple, as was I as a photographer back then. I grew and so did the details of that list. Some of those things still
Good Morning Chicago
Always hard after a holiday weekend to get back to the grind. I decided again this morning to take in a sunrise along the lakefront. I headed to back to Fullerton to enjoy the light show. It was such a beautiful morning, a fellow person was sitting down there just
Sunrises: Motivation and Getting the Shot
I get up early every morning, I love to wake up and get the day started (most days, some just let me lay here until I get bed sores). So this morning, I realized I am up, I am near downtown, lets go shoot the sunrise. So I decided
Love this City
I love Chicago. I really do.I am lucky to have lived there, and still live close enough to see it everyday. Looking back at photographs I have taken makes me love it even more. It was the one subject that really pushed my photography to the forefront, and it is a
The 3rd Out of Chicago Photowalk
This past Saturday, Chris Smith held his third Out of Chicago Photowalk. We gathered out at the Adler Planetarium with hopes of capturing the supermoon that was present on Saturday night. Here is the group, though about 10 minutes after this photo, most of the group scattered and there was
Revisiting a shot
I find it helpful to go back every once in a while and look at some old shots, ones which I used to think were great, especially with HDR photography. Your processing style changes, and hopefully as most people I see for the better. In preparation for getting back out
More Italy Photographs and an Update to the blog!!
First off, I did some housekeeping here on the blog, changed up the layout some and made it easier to navigate. Also made the fb like button work right dynamically between the pages, instead of separately. Let me know what you think, there will probably be some more slight changes
Duomo’s of Italy
Italy is full of history and one historic landmark in many of the towns across Italy is the town’s Duomo. A duomo is a term for a cathedral church. The architecture of these buildings is marvelous and is a perfect subject for HDR photography. I have three photos that I