Obama in Chicago.

President Obama in Marine One, landing at Montrose Harbor for his birthday fundraiser in Uptown. Click through for larger versions.

End of winter 2011

A dilapidated barn near Henagar, Alabama.

Columbus and Illinois, downtown Chicago.

Chicago Blizzard Timelapse

Time lapse video taken from my window.

646 frames taken every 5 minutes from the afternoon on Monday 1.31.11, though the evening Wednesday 2.2.11. The clips that follow are from the morning of 2.2.11

Lots of snow!

Trash the Dress

I was recently asked to do a "Trash the Dress" photoshoot. Our original plan was to try to set the dress on fire, but due to the material we had safety concerns.

Becki knew of some great locations to try, and most of these are from the second. It was a little late in the season for us to be wading into the lake, but we ended up having a great day for it. It was still chilly though, so I was glad to have towels and a warm car nearby.

Thanks!

little critters

Photos of a few critters out on a recent camping trip. Images link to the bigger ones.

River North HDR

On the way out to a Birthday happy hour last Friday, on Kinzie west of the river (View Larger Map), and from the Merchandise Mart Brown Line overpass.

New York trip

From a recent trip to New York.

Central Park at dusk, 3-shot composite HDR.

Flying out over New York at sunset.

University of Illinois Quad

A 360° stitch of the University of Illinois quad, as a little planet.

A much larger one is here. We stopped in Champaign on the way back from a recent trip to St. Louis, as I haven't been there in quite a few years. Driving through town Its odd to see what's changed and what hasn't.

Lakefront Birdhouses

Birdhouses on the Chicago lakefront - taken with a point and shoot wallet-sized Olympus. It may not be nearly as high quality as my full cameras, but due to the small lens size it has a huge depth-of-field. I like how the three clouds mimic them.

Southwest Michigan Critters

While we were having breakfast outside of the White Rabbit Inn in Lakeside Michigan, this little guy was joining us.

Found this praying mantis outside of an antiques store in Union Pier Michigan. Luckily I had my macro lens nearby in the car.

7-photo stitch

A 7-photo stitch of the chicago skyline, color edited and saturated. I've been meaning to shoot some large-scale panoramics like this, with the intent of having prints made on canvas and stretchers. A few more and I'll attempt a print run. I'm really looking forward to having a 3ft x 8ft version of something like this - There's so much detail, it mostly gets lost when I try to show it online.

Photo links to a 1500px-version on flickr.

July 4th Bouquet.

I took quite a few shots of fireworks out in Lombard on the 4th, and just found this amongst them.

f8 | 2.5sec | iso100

Skyline, panoramic

The larger version, 6 raw images stitched together. 315mb as a jpg.

Click for the bigger one.