
Wind turbines spin in a farmer’s field on a cold winter evening in Central Illinois.
Mar 04, 2013 | Categories:Agriculture, Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Rural America, nature, scenic | Tags: efficient, electricity, energy, environment, farm, generate, green, IL", Illinois, In the 309, Midwest, rural, tower, turbine, wind | Leave A Comment »

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief departs Galesburg, IL after sunset on a winter evening. The many passengers who boarded tonight’s train will arrive in the much warmer climate in Los Angeles in about 36 hours, passing through the beautiful scenery in New Mexico and Arizona en route.
Feb 28, 2012 | Categories:Features, For Hire, Freelance, Hire Me, I'm Available, Illinois, In The 309, Photography, Railroad, Transportation | Tags: Amtrak, environment, environmentally, evening, friendly, GE, General Electric, green, locomotive, long distance, passenger, Railroad, railway, relax, ride, sunset, Superliner, train, Transportation, travel, vacation | Leave A Comment »

I’ve been meaning to post this for quite some time. This was taken on the same night as the previous two night views here on the blog. What you see here are two views of the historic Monadnock Building. This is the southern half of the building, designed by Holabird & Roche and is an [...]
Mar 10, 2010 | Categories:Architecture, Chicago, Chicago Landmark, Features, Night, Photography | Tags: Architecture, building, Chicago, city, early, environment, historic, Holabird & Roche, IL", Illinois, landmark, Monadnock, steel frame, urban | Leave A Comment »

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, [...]
Dec 19, 2008 | Categories:Photography | Tags: bleak, Christmas, economy, environment, factory, Illinois, industrial, industry, Joliet, Nick Suydam, Photography, pollution, power plant, refinery, Rockdale, rural, small town, town, toxic, waste | Leave A Comment »