A father beckons to his daughter at the top of a hill. A really big hill. The biggest hill in my town actually…I didn’t even know you could drive to the top…you can see Chicago from there. Who knew?
This is the second funeral for a soldier I had to shoot. About 6 hours today was spent in my car to get to the funeral home, the burial site, and back home. It was in East Peoria. Upon speaking with a lady that was dealing with press inquiries she had mentioned that the family [...]
This is just a more graphically based image I shot, that doesn’t illustrate the man’s story too much…unless you consider the fact that you can’t tell which of these four scuba divers is the paraplegic one…like this man would want it. There’s not much of a difference (or any he might say) in the water.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
I forgot to mention the man was paraplegic (if the wheelchair didn’t make it obvious). I walked away from this pretty thankful for having met this guy. I feel kinda guilty but a lot of the time I get more out of meeting people than they do. Maybe I can meet up in Oz for [...]
Saturday, October 14, 2006
This man from Oz (Australia) is traveling the world on a grant fund from Britain, learning different methods of how to train disabled people to Scuba Dive. Here he tries to get the feeling of a blind person. Having just come from Scotland, France and other spots in Europe, Chicago has by far been the [...]
Just a friendly guy I had a chat with at the park today. He had his two dogs with him, it was too muddy at the dog park so he went downtown to take them out.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Shot nothing today, wrote too many essays for grad school applications. Good news is, they’re almost done…after spending all kinds of cash on application fees, transcripts and other mailing nonsensery. I guess I understand all the hoops to jump through though…gotta weed out the ones that aren’t that serious.
Now I just need to get in…good [...]
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
blue sky green grass nice boxy houses and I need to get out of here.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Outside looking in. I shot this while on the field at a college football game…not being a huge football fan I don’t consider it an advantage usually to be on the sidelines and running up and down the field…though this might change once I photograph the Bears’ game later on in the season.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
old townies playing bean bags after watching a football game and drinking beer. nothing much.