
Red Winged Black Birds
The above was shot with my 1D and is minimally cropped from the top and left. The photo below was shot with the...
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Evening Gulls
I brought my 1D and the borrowed Rebel out to shoot some gulls. I found that I could obtain initial focus equally well...
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Testing a Canon EOS Rebel
My camera is a Canon EOS 1D which was the best of the best when I bought it back in 2002. It still...
+State Bowling Tournament
Logan got to go to the state bowling tournament in Joliet, IL today. He bowled well with a high game of 148. ...
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Blue Portrait
I've been playing around with adding background textures to portraits using blend modes in Photoshop. It works best with a grey background so...
+Brand New HipstaPak
I downloaded a new HipstaPak today so I had to try it out. This is Dixie Film with the Mabel Lens. ...
+Can I Talk?
I was trying to talk but they weren't listening so I snapped their picture instead. I played around with it in Snapseed a...
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Self Portrait
I tried to do a shot of myself similar to the one I did of my son last Friday. I wore a white...
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Uncle Rico
This is our 20 lb cat, Uncle Rico. He's named after a character from the movie "Napoleon Dynomite". I was inspired to make...
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Calvanized Portrait
One of my favorite Photoshop teachers is Calvin Hollywood. I used some of his techniques on this portrait of my son. It was...
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Photoshop Manipulation
This is three images put together to make one. The window and castle were downloaded from psdbox. I took the image of my...
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Daylight Savings Time Hawk
I'm already loving the extra hour of daylight. Tonight I went for a short run and still had time shoot pictures in daylight....
+Me Monday Flood
I was invited by Pam to try meMonday, a self portrait every Monday so here is my first one. I went for a...
+Time to Go Home
Our last hour in the sunshine of St. Maarten before returning to cold and grey Illinois. As I sit here adding photos (on...
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Souvenir Shopping
Today we spent the morning shopping in Phillipsburg. In the afternoon we took a drive around the island. We had heard there were...
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Princess Juliana International Airport
One of the main reasons I wanted to visit St. Maarten was to take this photo. I had seen it on the Travel...
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End of a Long Day
We've arrived in paradise but are too tired to do anything but snap sunset photos from the balcony of our room. ...
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Airport Preparation
We are spending the night at the Best Western Ohare. Our plane leaves at 5:30 am tomorrow. My wife is very good at...
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