Category Archives: Urban Landscape

Mark Your Calendars

I was recently informed that I was juried into the
1st Annual Artwalk at the Promenade Bolingbrook
The show is May 2-3 and will feature many area artists.  One feature of this show is that there is an indoor venue if the weather is not so nice…something that is not impossible for early May in the [...]

Stadium Seats

It is snowing in Chicago. By the time morning rolls around nearly a foot of snow will be deposited on the ground. I decided I needed to revisit images of warmer days. As I wandered through my photographs I was drawn to this one. The red stadium seats on a warm Summer day, seats that by morning will not be recognizable, simply jumped off the page at me.

Chicago Federal Plaza

 
The day was just a bit overcast and there was a slight Autumn chill in the air.  I planned a whole day downtown to photograph because I really wanted to work with HDR (high density range) images.  The technique allows one to expose for the full range of highlights through shadows by making three or [...]

Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

Several weeks ago while exhibiting work at the Pointe Vedra Art Fair in Florida I was approached by an interested person looking at this image…
 She said to me, “You really have the knack of turning the ordinary into the extraordinary!”  I thanked her but she really started me thinking about that remark.  In the end, [...]