I’ve been considering purchasing a tilt shift lens for quite some time, mainly because I’ve grown tired of the distortion caused by my wide angle lenses when shooting subjects like buildings, or really, anything. The price has kept me away, which is why I decided to rent one from Borrow Lenses a few weeks ago [...]
Nov 14, 2012 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, Photography, Travel, scenic | Tags: 16-35mm f/2.8 L II, Abe, Abraham, building, Canon, capital, comparison, home, IL", Illinois, lens, lesuire, Lincoln, Midwest, National Historic, Photography, sightsee, site, Springfield, tilt shift, travel, TS-E 24mm f/3.5, wide angle | Leave A Comment »
Near the small town of Union Grove, IL is this old farm with classic red buildings. It made for a nice photo prop on a warm summer evening as the sun set and a few clouds rolled in. Be sure to join me on Facebook – Twitter – Flickr
Aug 06, 2012 | Categories:Agriculture, Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, Photography, Rural America, Travel, nature, scenic | Tags: barn, classic, corn, country, crop, farm, farming, field, green, Illinois, Midwest, Midwestern, rural | Leave A Comment »
I’ve decided to break out a bit from being so Central Illinois-centric with the Post Office project. To get back in the swing of things, here is the rural post office in Calamus, IA, Zip Code 52729. Calamus is a town of about 450 people west of Clinton right along historic US 30. Be sure [...]
Aug 02, 2012 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Iowa, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: Architecture, brick, building, Calamus, country, endangered, Iowa, life, lifestyle, Midwest, Midwestern, post office, postal, rural, service, small town | Leave A Comment »
Working in downtown Peoria has given me the opportunity to watch and photograph the work being done on the Peoria Riverfront Museum as it progresses towards completion. It has been quite amazing to watch as what began as a giant hole in the ground early this winter has taken shape in to what will become [...]
Jul 26, 2012 | Categories:Architecture, Engineering, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Travel | Tags: after, Architecture, before, build, building, Cat, Caterpillar, county, design, downtown, funding, Illinois, metal, museum, new, Peoria, Peoria Riverfront Museum, progress, project, Riverfront, skyline, Welcome Center | Leave A Comment »
With all the recent news regarding the closings of post offices around the country due to extreme budget shortfalls, I figured it was time to start posting a few more of my Post Office series to the blog again. Many of the post offices whose photo I’ve already posted to the blog are on the [...]
Dec 11, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, post office | Tags: America, cameron, close, closing, country, endangered, government, IL", Illinois, post office, postal, postal service, rural, small town, united states | Leave A Comment »
Today’s Post Office comes to us from way out west in the 309 area code, in the tiny town of Smithshire, IL. View Post Offices in the 309 in a larger map
Mar 31, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, post office | Tags: Architecture, area code, country, government, Illinois, In the 309, Midwest, Midwestern, Photography, post office, project, rural, small town, tiny, travel, united states | Leave A Comment »
Finally getting back to blogging! For my first post here in a while, I guess I’ll go back to the well of “In the (Three Oh Nine)” photos. This one is from earlier this winter, from one of my post office-seeking photo trips. I found this scene just north of Raritan, IL.
Mar 24, 2011 | Categories:Agriculture, Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, scenic | Tags: Agriculture, area code, barn, barren, cattle, cold, country, desolate, farm, IL", Illinois, In the 309, Midwest, Midwestern, Nick Suydam, photo, Photography, raise, raritan, rural, small town, snow, winter | Leave A Comment »
Today’s Post Office is Norris, IL. Population 194. View Post Offices in the 309 in a larger map
Mar 02, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: Architecture, building, country, endangered, government, IL", Illinois, In the 309, letter, mail, Norris, post office, rural, small town, town, variety | Leave A Comment »
Today’s Post Office is Cameron, IL. Population 651. View Post Offices in the 309 in a larger map
Feb 24, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: Architecture, cameron, country, government, IL", Illinois, In the 309, post office, rural, small town, variety | 1 Comment »
Today’s Post Office is Marietta, IL, population 150. View Post Offices in the 309 in a larger map
Feb 23, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: closing, country, endangered, government, Illinois, In the 309, letter, mail, Marietta, post office, rural, small town | Leave A Comment »
Today’s Post Office is Table Grove, IL, population 396. View Post Offices in the 309 in a larger map
Feb 21, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: budget, country, deliver, endangered, government, Illinois, In the 309, letter, mail, post office, rural | Leave A Comment »
Today in Post Offices, we have Knoxville, IL, population 3183. View Post Offices in the 309 in a larger map
Feb 18, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: budget, country, cuts, deliver, endangered, government, Illinois, In the 309, letter, mail, Midwest, Midwestern, post office, rural, small town | Leave A Comment »
Today we have the Wyoming, IL Post Office. Wyoming is one of three towns in the area that shares a name with another state. Wyoming, IL; Population 1366, Zip Code 61491 View Post Offices in the 309 in a larger map
Feb 17, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: Architecture, Central, country, deliver, endangered, Illinois, In the 309, letter, Midwest, Midwestern, Photography, post office, postal, rural, service, zip code | Leave A Comment »
With the recent news that the United States Postal Service is going to close up to 2,000 post office locations around the country, in mostly rural areas, I decided that I needed to begin documenting the small town and rural post office locations around my area. Beginning last week, I drove the countryside in search [...]
Feb 16, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, Travel, post office | Tags: Architecture, closing, country, deliver, endangered, government, Illinois, In the 309, letter, mail, office, po, post office, postal, receive, rural, send, small town, travel | Leave A Comment »
For part 2 of the Vintage Motels series, I figured I’d share a few interior photos of the various old motel rooms I’ve stayed in recently. Once again, these are from the Point Motel in Stevens Point, WI or the Motel Centralia in Centralia, IL. Here we are: This week I’ll also start a new [...]
Feb 14, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, Photography, Rural America, Travel | Tags: 1970s, affordable, Architecture, bed, boring, Centralia, cheap, Illinois, interior, maid, motel, Motel Centralia, Night, old, overnight, Point Motel, service, sink, stay, Stevens Point, vintage, Wisconsin | Leave A Comment »
In recent months, I’ve had the opportunity to spend the night in some interesting vintage motels around the Midwest. The first such occasion was at the Point Motel in Stevens Point, WI. It would’ve been a great, affordable place to stay if not for the lack of hot water in the room. My most recent vintage motel stay was in Centralia, IL at the Motel Centralia…
Feb 11, 2011 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, Photography, Rural America, Travel | Tags: Centralia, country, Illinois, Midwest, Midwestern, motel, Motel Centralia, old, over night, Point Motel, rural, small town, stay, Stevens Point, travel, vacation, vintage, Wisconsin | Leave A Comment »
One thing I’ve really become obsessed with lately is correcting the perspective of my images in Photoshop, especially for architectural images. My primary wide-angle lens is the Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5. It’s a fine lens with great optics, but it does give quite a bit of distortion, which is especially noticeable when you are dealing with the straight lines of a building. So I thought I’d throw together a little tutorial on how I manage some of that distortion, and come up with something corrected, almost like you’d see from a professional architectural tilt/shift lens. You can follow along below:
Dec 03, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, Photography, Photoshop Tips, Travel | Tags: adobe, architectural, Architecture, Canon 10-22, computer, distortion correction, lens, lens correction, perspective correction, photoshop guide, photoshop tip, photoshop trick, software, tilt/shift, tutorial | Leave A Comment »
I believe that well done real estate photos can be an invaluable tool when selling your home. Quality photos, done by a professional who has the talent, equipment and time to do the job right can lead to more interest in your home, and even a higher selling price. I also like to photograph new [...]
Oct 29, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Illinois, Official Business, Photography, Travel | Tags: ad, advertisement, architectural, Architecture, building, business, construction, Nick Suydam, photographer, Photography, real estate, travel | Leave A Comment »
Sixth Street is the place to go in Austin, and one of the anchors of this famous street is The Driskill Hotel. The hotel is a classic structure, built in 1886 by a cattle baron in what was then a wild west town. The hotel has a rather long history, including being lost by its [...]
Oct 19, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Engineering, Features, Photography, Travel | Tags: Architecture, austin, building, evening, famous, fancy, hotel, luxury, Night, photographer, Photography, Texas, the driskill, tx | Leave A Comment »
A woman in a green dress waits for her ride to the Loop at the Chicago Avenue Blue Line station in Chicago, IL. As always, join me on Facebook : Twitter : Flickr
Sep 07, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Chicago, Engineering, Features, Photography, Railroad, Transit, Transportation | Tags: blue line, Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority, city, commute, commuter, CTA, green dress, IL", Illinois, subway, Transit, Transportation, underground, urban, woman | Leave A Comment »
Built in the early Eighties to connect the giant steel mills in East Chicago, IN with the Indiana Toll Road, the Cline Avenue Freeway curves through the heavy industry and rises high over the Indiana Harbor Canal. The road has a grim history. In 1982, during its construction, a large section of cribbing collapsed during [...]
Aug 24, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Chicago, Engineering, Features, Photography, Transportation | Tags: abandoned, Cline Avenue, concrete, demolish, dilapidated, falling apart, freeway, highway, Indiana, Northwest, roadway, structure, traffic | 2 Comments »
From my ongoing Mississippi River project, this is the relatively new (built in 1999) suspension bridge over the Mississippi River at Clinton, IA. As always, join me on Facebook : Twitter : Flickr
Aug 18, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Engineering, Features, Photography, Rural America, The Mississippi River, Transportation, scenic | Leave A Comment »
An hour or so after official sunset, the sky in the west still glows, accenting a few clouds moving in off of Lake Michigan, just to the north. The Chicago Skyway bridge rises high above us, getting way up and over the Calumet River to allow uninterrupted boat traffic below. The Norfolk Southern’s lift bridge [...]
Jun 04, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Chicago, Chicago Landmark, Engineering, Features, Night, Photography, Railroad, Transportation | Tags: bridge, Calumet, Chicago, evening, highway, IL", Illinois, industrial, interstate, Railroad, Skway, sky, sunset, tall | Leave A Comment »
On Chicago’s southwest side, in the McKinley Park neighborhood, stands historic bridges built by the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1901. The spans were designated an official Chicago Landmark by Mayor Daley on December 12th, 2007. The exotic design of these bridges is very unique, with two spans lifting to [...]
Jun 01, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Chicago, Chicago Landmark, Features, Night, Railroad, Transportation | Tags: 1901, B&OCT, Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal, bridge, Chicago, city, Eight Track Bridge, historic, history, IL", Illinois, landmark, Night, old, Panhandle, Pennsylvania Railroad, Railroad, river, Sanitary and Ship Canal, steel, train, urban | Leave A Comment »
