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Naples Pier
April 04, 2019 - During my road trip through Florida, I visited Naples Pier to capture some sunset photographs. It was a nice sunset. Abo...
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A Florida Gazebo
January 28, 2019 - During my last road trip through Florida, I captured this photograph of a gazebo at Washington Oaks Garden State Park in...
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Gusting Winds
December 12, 2018 - During my road trip to Newfoundland, I visited Signal Hill in the capital city of St. John's. Signal Hill offers spectac...
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Figure Skating
June 02, 2018 - I recently attended the Northern Blast Figure Skating Competition in Woodridge, Illinois. This was the second time that...
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Sharpness Throughout
March 11, 2018 - I commonly use focus stacking to extend the area of sharpness within a photograph. This picture of the Beckman Institute...
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Figure Skating
January 17, 2018 - Last Sunday, I photographed figure skating for the first time. Actually, it was the first time that I ever attended a fi...
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Starburst Blending!
September 26, 2017 - During my last road trip, I stopped for a couple of nights in El Paso, Texas. I'm always looking for a good vantage poin...
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Clamp It!
August 20, 2017 - During my recent 32 day road trip, I used a tripod for the vast majority of my shots. But, there were times when using a...
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Orangutan Portrait
April 18, 2017 - Last month, I visited the Tropic World exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo to capture some pictures of the orangutans.
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More in Focus
December 26, 2016 - A few years ago I visited a national cemetery. In an effort to compress the many tombstones, I attached a telephoto lens...
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Cable Release Woes
August 28, 2016 - I almost always use a cable release while shooting. This allows me to capture pictures without touching the camera--ther...
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Blending Exposure Times
July 05, 2016 - Last week, I captured some pictures of the Chicago skyline from the Adler Planetarium. This is an iconic scene that's be...
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Youth Baseball Portraits
May 16, 2016 - As one can quickly gather while viewing my website, I rarely shoot portraits of people. But, I always make a point of ca...
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Colorful Parakeets
April 28, 2016 - Last week I visited the Hamill Family Wild Encounters exhibits at the Brookfield Zoo. Within the area is a large indoor...
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Going Really Long!
April 18, 2016 - Earlier, I posted an entry about long exposure photography. That entry discussed an image with an exposure time of 104 s...
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Slowing Things Down
April 11, 2016 - One of my photography goals for this year is to create more long exposure pictures. Long exposures provide an opportunit...
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Focus Stacking - Lions!
February 27, 2016 - Focus stacking is a technique that is sometimes used to extend the depth of field of focus within a frame. By combining...
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Reaching Out
December 14, 2015 - Whenever possible, I use a tripod. However, sometimes it's impossible to set up a tripod for certain shots. This is ofte...
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Long Exposures in Daylight
July 13, 2015 - One way to make a photograph more interesting is for it to be different from other pictures in some way. A couple of day...
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Pull Out All the Stops to Reduce Camera Shake
October 20, 2014 - Whenever possible, I use a tripod to secure my camera and lens. A major benefit of using a tripod is to minimize camera...
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Window Treatments
August 14, 2014 - I enjoy taking photographs of interiors. One of the challenges with many interiors is the large dynamic range of light t...
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A Most Challenging Subject
March 28, 2014 - One of the most challenging subjects to photograph at the Brookfield Zoo, or anyplace else for that matter, is a Cotton-...
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How Low Can You Go?
February 20, 2014 - For years, as a general rule of thumb, photographers have been taught to select a shutter speed that is no slower than 1...
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Go With the Flow
February 02, 2014 - Capturing photographs of the Louisiana State Capitol building was not an easy task. I had one evening in Baton Rouge to...
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The Story of the Staircase
January 08, 2014 - I enjoy taking photographs that include a vanishing point in the composition. In particular, I capture many pictures of...
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A Very Tiny Redwood Tree!
September 15, 2013 - While visiting the Chicago Botanic Garden, I photographed a Dawn Redwood bonsai tree. Unlike the massive Sequoias of Cal...
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Slow Shutter Speeds for Slow Moving Creatures
June 19, 2013 - Earlier this year, I visited the Reptile Fest in Chicago. The event was held in the UIC Pavilion. The facility is not we...
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A Simple Dandelion
May 14, 2013 - I captured this image of a single dandelion the other day.
It's just a simple dandelion; yet I used three flash units...
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Eerie Lakefront
May 11, 2013 - Today's camera sensors require very little light to record colors and details.
I noticed this ice-covered marker while...
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Frozen Lighthouse
April 03, 2013 - I visited Saint Joseph, Michigan to photograph the historic lighthouses on a cold, Winter afternoon. The outer lighthous...
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Ultra-wide Basketball
January 23, 2013 - I decided to try something different while photographing my nephew's recreational basketball game the other day. I captu...
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Moving Water
January 16, 2013 - Moving water is rendered as smooth and silky in many photographs. Photographers often use long exposures to allow the mo...
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Turn on the Light with Photoshop!
January 07, 2013 - Often times, it's the little touches that make a photograph work. During my recent trip to New Mexico, I noticed the Inn...
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Freezing Action with Strobe
July 09, 2012 - It doesn't always take a fast shutter speed to freeze a moving subject. When a flash unit is the primary light source, o...
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Slow the Shutter for Something Different
May 04, 2012 - One of my favorite things about photography is how the camera can "see" things that we can't see with the human eye. By...
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