Category: Digital Photography

Digital Photography, Insects, Macro, Wildlife

Butterflies and Macro

Back in mid-July, I visited the Chicago Botanic Garden with neighbor and fellow photographer, Laura Hedien.  Laura and I have frequently gone out on photo excursions to shoot a myriad of subjects, including lighthouses, a wolf sanctuary, downtown Chicago and Milwaukee, airplanes at Oshkosh, trains, and other things.  This latest excursion was focused primarily on doing macro photography of butterflies at the Botanic Garden’s “Butterflies … Continue reading Butterflies and Macro

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Aviation, Digital Photography

Oshkosh, July 2018

I attend the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) annual convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin every year. The EAA calls it AirVenture, but most pilots still just call it “Oshkosh.”  For pilots and flying fanatics, it is the ultimate destination venue to appease the aviation addiction. Regardless of your specific interest in aviation or aircraft in particular, Oshkosh is also a unique opportunity for photography, with first class … Continue reading Oshkosh, July 2018

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Abstracts, Architecture, Digital Photography

Rusty Abstracts & the Hancock

Following up with more images from earlier in the year.  The first, from February 2018,  is a black & white conversion of the Hancock Building in downtown Chicago, taken with the Ricoh GR. These next few are from a visit to the Illinois Railway Museum (claimed to be the largest railway museum in the U.S.) in Union, Illinois.  Instead of getting traditional locomotive images I … Continue reading Rusty Abstracts & the Hancock

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Digital Photography, Flash, Light Painting, Still Life

Still-Life Photography

All of my recent photography activities have not been exclusively film-oriented, despite the implication of the last post.  Something that I have been exploring lately is still-life photography in my makeshift studio in my home’s attic.  Still-life photography takes two primary forms – the found still-life and the created or constructed still-life. The found still-life consists of a scene or tableau as it exists in … Continue reading Still-Life Photography

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