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Looking up into the rain

  • By Robert
  • February 9, 2025

Foul weather can make for a great day to photograph. Many years ago, I took a class in Santa Fe, NM, with Rodney Smith. He was a well-known photography educator at Yale and a New York Advertising photographer. He told us how he loved the light that happened just before it started to rain. If…

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Categories Black & White Instagram iPhone
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Heading in from Elburn for a day at the museum.

  • By Robert
  • February 8, 2025

It’s Saturday, and Elise is at a scrapbooking event. What to do? Of course, take the train into the city. #metra #trainride #artinstituteofchicago I mostly Ride the Rock, and I sometimes take the Southwest service that runs near the house, but it only runs Monday through Friday. On occasion, I drive over to Flossmoor to…

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Categories Instagram iPhone
Tags: Hipstamatic iPhone Railroad

My View From Work

  • By Robert
  • February 5, 2025

I had an evening gig in the city and look what I saw.

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Tags: Chicago Hipstamatic Instagram

The Nerve!!! How dare you put up barriers in my domain.

  • By Robert
  • November 29, 2024

We sometimes have visitors. Courtney’s cat, Rumor, comes over during holidays or other breaks. Shall I say that Pebbles is less than happy to have a visitor, and the screen is needed to keep them separated? Amazon to the rescue!

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Categories Black & White Instagram iPhone
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I’m on my way to the city to see Art!

  • By Robert
  • November 23, 2024

I’m on my way to the city to see some art! I think this is my train. Almost there. I’m here right now. I finally made it to the AIC. I did choose to avoid the food trucks this time around.

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Categories Black & White Instagram iPhone
Tags: Art Institute Black & White Hipstamatic

Playing peek-a-boo.

  • By Robert
  • November 22, 2024
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SCORE!!!

  • By Robert
  • November 11, 2024
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Perrrrrrfect Nap

  • By Robert
  • November 10, 2024

Pebbs… Sorry to bother you, but I need my camera, please.

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Categories Black & White Instagram
Tags: Black & White Cat Hipstamatic

Dog Climbing

  • By Robert
  • October 23, 2024

A harness for every size. From a recent ribbon cutting at Dogtopia in Orland Park.

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Till the cows come home.

  • By Robert
  • October 14, 2024

Little known fact. Giving inspirational speeches to the herd prior to milking increases production.

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My name is Rob. My journey into photography began in the early 1970s, inspired by my older brother as he developed and printed black-and-white photographs in our basement darkroom. After a challenging eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., with a malfunctioning Kodak Instamatic 100, I was motivated to work a long, hot summer to earn enough money for my first camera, an Olympus OM-1. In 1986, while studying at Valparaiso University, I embarked on my photography career. For over 38 years, I have worked with both commercial and retail clients, driven by my passion for this art form.

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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

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