The Elmwood Tornado, In Book Form
This coming weekend, on June 4th, I’ll be selling my new book at the Elmwood Strawberry Festival in downtown Elmwood, IL. The book features my re-photography project focusing on the immediate aftermath of last years tornado and follow-up photos taken six months later. This marks the one year anniversary of the storm, as it hit [...]
Spring Storm, Elmore, IL
Since it is just beginning thunderstorm season here on the plains of central Illinois, I figured it’s a great time to begin with some lightning photography. We had an early season storm move through the area last weekend, and I took the opportunity to head to one of my favorite spots near Williamsfield, IL where [...]
Good Old Fashioned Midwestern Thunderstorms
After picking up yet another new strobe for my gear bag last night, I ventured out onto the plains west of Chicago in hopes of putting that new flash to use. I really did, in fact, I completely drained the batteries. As I was heading into Rochelle, IL, clouds had began gathering on the horizon [...]
Storms Over Ashkum
Friday night I was out in the country south of Chicago, looking for stuff to light up with my strobes. I wasn’t having a hard time find neat stuff to light up, as I was in one of my favorite small towns in the area, Ashkum, IL. Ashkum as a neat little downtown area along [...]
How to Waste $10
If you are following my Twitter (now conveniently listed over there on the left), you may have seen that I was attempting to shoot some lightning last night from a safe yet elevated location on the west side of the city. And if you were in Chicago, you may have noticed that the storms never [...]
