Chicago Earth Hour 2010
Photographers on Chicago’s lakefront photographing the dimming of the lights of Chicago (above) to celebrate this year’s Earth Hour. The bottom photo was taken a few minutes before the lights were dimmed. Cloud Gate during Earth Hour These photographs were featured in Columbia Chronicle, April 5, 2010 pdf and print. The bean feature was also [...]
Capture my Chicago
iPhone photography at last night’s Capture My Chicago book launching. Twelve of my photos made it to the book! Here are more pictures from the event – CBS2 News Anchor Rob Johnson greeting the photographers who attended the event. CBS2 Chicago sponsored the book. You’ve seen Rob Johnson before – here back in 2008 and [...]
Another 15 minutes of fame
One of the pictures in a previous post, At the parade was featured at Gapers Block Rearview on October 21, 2008. Yay!
Street Performer
A street performer and his audience, earlier in the evening today. I shot this on the steps of the Art Institute in Chicago, on my way home. This one has a puppet show and has a captive audience composed of museum goers who are waiting to get into the Art Institute as I think it [...]
Waiting
At the Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park yesterday. Summer is winding down, and I realized I really haven’t sat down and take pictures of people in Millennium Park this season. Since it opened in 2004, I practically have thousands and thousands of pictures of this park … but not this year. So … on [...]
Gapers Block Feature
Another fifteen minutes of fame for this photograph: Gapers Block Rearview for 11 August 2008. This also appeared in the book “Capture My Chicago,” published by CBS2 Chicago.
Made it to Explore 080808
At the Rubber Ducky Derby yesterday. They dumped about 30,000 rubber duckies on the Chicago River for a race. Each duck was adopted by an individual or corporation … and the one that finishes first downstream at a certain mark wins something for the adopter. This annual Chicago race is for the benefit of Special [...]
Chicago Photography Examiner
Woohoo! About two weeks ago, the local content director of Examiner.com’s Chicago edition stumbled upon my Chicago Expat site and invited me to be one of their examiners. According to her, “Examiner features news content, video and interactive media from AP, local media, etc. but what will set us apart are our Examiners, essentially local [...]
Go Chicago!
The Go Chicago Card blog also featured one of my photographs of the greening of the Chicago River on St. Patrick’s Day in 2006. They saw me on flickr too.
National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel No. 2
Got another photo featured at National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel blog, this time about the downside of great apes tourism. As usual, they saw me on flickr. Flickr is great! Now, if only I could monetize this .
Fifteen Minutes of Fame Extended!
Another photograph is featured at the Nikon Stunning Gallery for today. Not only that, yesterday’s photograph is now in its front page. Several other photographs are included in the gallery … I should stop now. It’s embarassing.
This Got Legs!
A lead in at Nikon Stunning Gallery today, May 25. Whew! Another 15 minutes of fame. You can view more of my photos at Flickr, only if you’re interested .
2 x 15 Minutes of Fame
Got another photograph featured at the Chicago Public Radio website. Welcome guests from WBEZ! And this at Gapers Block early this week!