It’s the slow season for us wedding photographers. The days grow shorter and the wind begs us to don our scarves and gloves. Is there a better time to have four days to celebrate family, friends, and food? Questionable historicity aside, Thanksgiving is quite the nice bit of warmth sandwiched between two cold months. This...
On any given weekend on Chinatown, you can walk down the streets and see the flood of tourists and visitors, here to see all the exotic Chinese things in the store and restaurant windows. They’ll have their big cameras out taking pictures of Chinese looking buildings. Well, I felt like a tourist in my own...
Fall is in full swing. Chicago really can be a beautiful city if you grit your teeth when the wind blows. So pull out the long johns, make some spiced apple cider, and curl up with someone warm and cuddly. If it’s cold outside, make some heat inside ;). (These were panoramas of the city...
They say that the strongest relationships are the ones that have been tested by fire. The dark nights of the soul are tearful places to be. I was listening to a sermon at a black church once, something musical that you would be hard-pressed to find in a white congregation. The pastor spoke in a...
Recently, I was commissioned to do a panorama of the Chicago sky line. For those of you who don’t know, panoramas are more than just wide-angle photos. Due to the nature of wide-angle lenses, there’s a lot of distortion and shrinking that happens which doesn’t actually make for great panoramas of something like a skyline....
