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....
A mere two hundred years ago, film photography did not exist. And even as photography developed, it required sitting like a mannequin for hours to get one acceptable exposure. Today, we can shoot hundreds of images on a single card, able to be seen within fractions of a second after it’s shot. It’s true that...
Michael Jordan. He’s on fire. Well, at least I got to see where the greatest basketball player of all time lit up the court. What kind of Chicagoan would I be if I lived here without going to a game? Lucky for me, my friend Paul treated me to a pre-season game with some pretty...
Today, if John Lennon were still alive, he would be 70 years old. Here’s a tribute to a man who dreamt of a better world. Cheers, John. May there be more people in the world who have the imagination and faith to dream of Shalom.
