American Bison at Nachusa Grasslands, Illinois

American Bison at Nachusa Grasslands, Illinois

The American Bison, a symbol of the Great Plains and one of the icons of North America. Thanks to YouTube, State Farm commercials, and the classic cowboy movies, these great beasts can conjure up some scary mental images. My first thoughts of bison were always of...
Introduction to HDR Photography: Capturing the Image

Introduction to HDR Photography: Capturing the Image

I’ve been takingTrey Ratcliff’s Complete HDR course over the summer. The course is a series of 20 videos covering every aspect of HDR photography along with 75 images to practice with. The images supplied are the same ones that Trey uses in the training...
Documenting the Last Corn Harvest

Documenting the Last Corn Harvest

Here’s a recent photo from a project I’m working on. Nachusa Grasslands in Illinois is restoring a cornfield back to its original state of prairie and wetlands. Over the next few years, I will be documenting the progress of the Dewitt Holland Memorial Prairie. This...
2011 Rockford AirFest: Photographic Airshow finally complete

2011 Rockford AirFest: Photographic Airshow finally complete

Well it took me exactly two weeks to get all of my airshow photos edited and the post-production work done, but the photographic airshow is now ready over at Flickr. Out of the 1400 images, I narrowed it down to 62 that I liked. Here’s a link to a few of my favorite...
2011 Rockford AirFest: Great Show and Lots of Photos

2011 Rockford AirFest: Great Show and Lots of Photos

The 2011 Rockford AirFest was held the first weekend in June. This year’s theme was “Celebrating 100 Years of Naval Aviation” A subject near and dear to my heart. Unfortunately, due to a little incident, the Blue Angels had to cancel and go into a safety stand-down....