Double Rainbow!
Friday I had to be in Freeport, IL to shoot a few photos for a job. The area was getting hit with some pretty good storms all day, and I had to run around between raindrops to get everything finished up. On my way back to Chicago, the rain began to stop and I noticed [...]
Flashback to Fall
Today let’s so back into the archives, to a photo from a warm fall afternoon from far western Iowa, near Woodbine. The Boyer River valley is quite scenic, especially when the fall colors are popping out amongst the hills and dales. As the sun sank lower, and lit up those bright colors, this scene presented [...]
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 [...]
Elmore Road
When I was in high school and just beginning to take an interest in photography, mostly to record trains, I often ventured after class up to Elmore Road just east of Williamsfield, IL, about 10 miles north of my hometown. This was the closest grade crossing of the then-Santa Fe’s (and a year after I [...]
Pike’s Peak (The One In Iowa)
On my way back from Minneapolis last week, I decided to take the scenic route along the Mississippi River. It was hazy and cloudy for most of the way through Minnesota, but as I got closer to Iowa, the sun began to break though the cloud layer. I wanted to look for some scenic vantage [...]
