Black & White
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This is a Buffalo.
Thankfully, this isn’t the only place you can see a buffalo. Click the link in my bio to find out more about us. . . . . . Continue reading
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Steamy Santa…
Before the season gets too far away. . . . . . . Continue reading
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A change of perspective. . .
A change of perspective. . . Continue reading
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Patience
Lucas was doing his best to show patience waiting for the tour of the Tree Hotel to begin. Patience is also key to making great portraits, the photograph becomes much more than a headshot. Continue reading
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Shapes and Portraits
Zellij fountain at the Garfield Park Conservatory Continue reading
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No entry. . . . . .
The wonderful front door of the historic Glessner House on Prairie Ave in Chicago. The house was built in 1886 and was way ahead of its time. Continue reading
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The things you see when shopping. . . . .
The whole scene looked rather macabre, like old war footage or a bad night at the morgue. Except there are those price stickers on the legs. Second-hand love comes with naked truth… or something like that. Continue reading
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955