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Winnetka Music Festival
July 12, 2019
In three short years, the Winnetka Music Festival (Winnetka, Illinois, home to the “Home Alone” house and other points of interest) has established a reputation for great acts and a great time for all ages. Created by Winnetka natives Val Haller and Scott Myers, this year’s festival featured 60 acts performing across four stages and additional […]
Winter Wanderings
March 13, 2019
This winter has been a “doozy” as my dear old Mom used to say. Because I grew up in south Louisiana, doozy applied to other things – athletic feats, five-car pileups and report cards (mine, not my sisters’ good grades). She never used the term for subzero temperatures, bone-crushing layers of ice and snow or a […]
Tokina Power Tower – The Tokina AT-X M100 PRO DX
September 6, 2018
I can start this article in two ways. The first way is more intelligent, given that my wife may or may not read this post. This first way would be to explain that I needed another portrait lens for one of my film cameras – the Nikon F100. There, done. I’ve only been shooting with […]
Meet the Minolta 58 1.4
April 26, 2018
Here’s one week and one lens. Purely personal work here. The location is not exotic but I’d argue the images are. People are not included (and I love to photograph people) but it’s a lovely little tribute to my late 1960s Minolta Rokkor MC 58 1.4 and to how much the weather and world shifts […]
Light and Dreams
December 20, 2017
Light is such a huge contributor to a successful shoot… well, light and attitude. You can have great light but if the attitude isn’t there, either on the part of the subject or photographer, then any success will be measured. I once photographed a group and could feel palatable tension. The photographer’s mission is to […]