Leica
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Yes, she turned the hose on me…
We started out having such fun with the hose… then the inevitable happened. She turned it on me. But I got the shot! And then ran. Continue reading
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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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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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End Of Summer Light
I can’t believe that the summer is now, for sure, over… how quickly it passed. One last memory. I love the light of the late summer sunset. Reminds me of the coloring in the Hudson River School paintings. A blasted tree would complete the comparison but I don’t think the school would appreciate my adjustment… Continue reading
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Best seat in the house!
Nothing like guarding empty seats. I hope he found the show entertaining. At the Lucas Oil Stadium for the championship competition of Drum Corps International. Continue reading
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Steam Clean
Clean up time at the Taste of Orland. 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