A belated “Happy New Year.” Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? Illness has made me late in wishing you all the very best in 2013 and thanking you all for your support and friendship in 2012. It’s my great pleasure to know...
Creating photographs with a narrative. My previous post covered some of the basic ideas my fellow workshoppers and I considered on the University of Chicago campus last month. I wanted today to share with you some of the images that came from my efforts. If you go back to my previous post and think about...
Three rules for better photographs. The first of a few posts as a debriefing of the awesome workshop I hosted at the University of Chicago a few weekends past. I had a wonderful class of some 12 photographers for my May 26th workshop. We talked a bit about photography and then headed into the beautiful...
Stone and light. The former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary, now home to the Milton Friedman Institute, is a favorite building of mine.Here are a few posts with some more images from this Gothic marvel.. Last November, I returned to the city of broad shoulders to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my family. Having...
31st Street Jetty While I was digging through some archived images of a very cold Chicago winter – I found these two photographs made on a very, very cold Chicago morning sometime a year or two ago. A good friend and I crawled onto the frozen jetty and waited for the sunrise.
