The Happy Holidays Post
Since I’m about to pack it in for the Holidays and head home to Central Illinois (as well as another, much warmer locale…) for a while, I figured now may be my last chance to put up the “Happy Holidays” blog entry, so here it goes. These photos today are all from our big snow [...]
Christmas in Rockdale
In the Des Plaines River valley, just south of Joliet, lies the tiny town of Rockdale, IL. This town of 1800 people is maybe best known, to me at least, as the location where the planned siege on the hijacked train in the movie Silver Streak was supposed to take place, in name only though, [...]
The UC
Home to the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks, the United Center stands on the near west side of the city, built in the parking lot of the old Chicago Stadium in 1994. It is supposedly the largest arena of it’s kind in physical size, not capacity. It sure looked big in this view on a cold [...]
Skyline Tree
A chilly night last winter found me down on North Avenue Beach looking at the skyline of this city reflecting in the icy waters of Lake Michigan. The harbor here was completely iced over, making for some neat effects when combined with the city lights. I found this old tree, completely devoid of leaves this [...]
Parking Deck
It’s always fun to attempt to remember where you parked your car in a big garage, especially on a cold night when all you want to do is to get home. If you could only find your car, that is. So you ride the elevator up and down, checking each level of that frigid concrete [...]
From Frigid Chicago
You really have to love the weather this time of year here in the Windy City (and yes, I’m being sarcastic). Yesterday was over 50 degrees, and today I wake up to -15 wind chills. Yes negative 15. Hey how about this beautiful city! For a taste of the ‘no snow, just cold’ Chicago see [...]
Tiny Tehachapis
I’ve been sorting through old photos from last year, attempting to update my Lightroom catalog a bit, and I ran across a photo that I thought I could maybe help a bit in Photoshop. I know, I know, these tilt/shift things are gimmicky and lame (it’s been discussed…), but I really think they can produce [...]
Canadian Pacific Holiday Train
I followed the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train last Friday from Sabula to Davenport, IA, with a stop in Clinton. It was a great time, they have a concert aboard the train, and accept donations for local food pantries. I’m sure they raised a lot of money as the crowds in these small Iowa towns were [...]
Warm California Sun
Since it’s a cold, rainy, and overall dreary day here in Illinois (in more ways than one…at least our corrupt Governor finally got caught…way to go Blago), I thought I’d post a photo that makes me think of warm times, such as the following from my road trip to California last March. This is from [...]
Website Updates
This weekend I’ve been working on a lot of updates to my website. First, there is a new gallery for my “Late Night in the City” photo project. I think I’m going to add two pictures to it still, but it’s done other than that. You can take a look here: A Late Night in [...]
Winter in the Towers
Back to the real photos today, this comes from the West Loop area of Chicago on December 1st, 2008. It was a cold and windy night, as can be seen by the steam coming from the roof of this CHA tower. As always, click on the thumbnail above to get the big picture. More on [...]
Transmission Towers
Another quick and dirty post on the ol’ blog this morning. Too much to do today, but hopefully that will mean some NEW photos to post here, eventually…. For now, enjoy and, perhaps, purchase the photo below of some electric transmission towers on the plains of north central Illinois.
Nebraska Sandhills
I’m taking the easy and quick way to a blog post today and just embedding something else from my Photoshelter site. Take a peak at some cattle in the Nebraska Sandhills. And click on through if you would like to buy this as a print, or as stock, or as whatever…
Over the Snowy Rooftops
The first snowfall of the season is gently coating the rooftops of the west side of Chicago on this peaceful evening. Everything is so quiet when you get above the city, all that could be heard was the wind blowing from the north and the occasional rumble from the nearby L tracks. As always, click [...]
Visiting Hours Are Over
Yesterday in Chicagoland saw our first significant snowfall of the season, with several inches accumulating during the early morning hours. I did manage to get out of the house and shoot a few things in the fresh snow last night as well, bundled up in coat, gloves, and boots for the first time of many [...]
Sunset at the Watchman
From my Fine Art and Framing gallery is an HDR photo of the sunset on the Watchman rock near the entrance to Zion National Park in southern Utah. This is made up of eight different exposures to bring out the colors from that time of day. If you want to purchase a print of the [...]
