Welcome to Uncommon Photographers!

This is my attempt to pay tribute to photographers who go into various lengths to take that perfect photo. Some are deliberate photos, but many are accidental. They just happened to be in my view finder when I took the photograph and noticed it after the fact. Enjoy and submissions are welcome.

Photographing the Photographer

Splash!


I think they’re having a contest as to who will blink first … :-) . The photographer is one of the members of the Filipino Chicago Flickr group who met last April 30.

Behind the scenes of the lakefront workshop … and then some


Each to his/her own

More photographs from the lighting/strobist workshop conducted by Flickr and Facebook buddy, Allan Delos Reyes. Learned a lot of basics (you would think I already know how to do this, but I don’t – many of the workshops I have attended on strobes and flashes just went over my head. I always have the default reason when asked – I shoot with ambient light hahahahahah!). It’s a steep learning curve but I have to learn.

More shots and more behind the scenes …


Obamarama

Kowtowing with the Pols
Kowtowing with the Pols

Meet and greet with Rahm Emanuel, candidate for Mayor of the City of Chicago. Go Rahm! Rahm Emanuel …

More in Obamarama
  • Law of the land
  • Hawkers
  • Going home …
  • Pandemonium
  • Photographer inaction

Fisheye

Life is good ...
Life is good …

Self portrait inside my favorite subject using my favorite lens … what could one ask for more?…

More in Fisheye
  • At the vicinity of the Trump Tower
  • A blast from the past
  • Crouching
  • Sacred Family
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

From the Bus (or the Car for that Matter)

Don't have the foggiest
Don’t have the foggiest

… idea why it was so foggy yesterday … 2nd day in a row! I was downtown most of the afte…

More in From the Bus (or the Car for that Matter)
  • India!
  • Don’t block the traffic
  • Photographing Minnehaha
  • Leaving on a jetplane
  • Macro garden photography

Chimping

Not all anti-war protesters are 1960's hippie types
Not all anti-war protesters are 1960′s hippie types

One can be stylish and still be progressive .…

More in Chimping
  • Bernie and Neil’s funkadelic birthday and EFF off Valentine celebrations
  • More Chinese New Year Celebrations (coupled with a birthday too!)
  • Gong Xi Fa Cai 2011
  • Party Chimping
  • Modern Wing of Chicago’s Art Institute

Men With Big Equipment

Behind the scenes of the lakefront workshop ... and then some
Behind the scenes of the lakefront workshop … and then some

Each to his/her own More photographs from the lighting/strobist workshop conducted by Flickr and Fac…

More in Men With Big Equipment
  • Gong Xi Fa Cai 2011
  • The Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn
  • WTF?
  • Chicago Journalists Association
  • Chicago Marathon 10/10/10