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...
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...
