Tuesday in the Park...

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:02:32 -0500

It was the last day of August in Chicago, and after spending the entire summer here and being photographically unproductive, I finally broke out the camera equipment and decided to use it... While the sunrise photo shoot on the shores of Lake Michigan fell through, I think we still got some gorgeous shots with the Chicago Skyline in the distance. After an hour or so, we decided to seek refuge from the overpowering sun and headed for the Grant Memorial in Lincoln Park. The columns and archways inside this historic structure provided an amazing backdrop for a very talented dancer... Make sure to leave your comments below, I would love to hear what you think!
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Ridgeway House

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:32:12 -0500

Today I visited an old “home” in Chicago circa 190? back when the entire area was farm land and this little old farm house was just that. Somehow this little treasure hung on over the years, albeit just barely. Being disassembled and sold for scrap in the upcoming weeks, the owners wanted to document what was left of this little piece of history. Check out the photos below!

Ridgeway House... inside

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:13:46 -0500

Summertime in the City...2

Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:05:35 -0500

For the first time, the default title that iWeb created for me stuck through to my publishing the blog post. Another album of summer beauty here in Chicago... this time of my adventure in Lincoln Park. My trip to the Lincoln Park Zoo was book-ended by incredible fog over Lake Michigan this morning and gorgeous butterflies in the gardens outside of the zoo. The zoo proved to be a bit of a let down, but I did get to meet one gorgeous young zebra. Check out the Photos below!

Summertime in the City

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:04:57 -0500

On a beautifully sunny Thursday afternoon I set out to find inspiration in the city of Chicago... I didn’t have to walk far from my Michigan Avenue apartment to find true beauty in Millennium Park. Check out the friends I met while toting my cameras around the park below!

Another Opening...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:05:27 -0500

Chicago, Green Carpets, A Giant Inflatable Ogre, and An Amazing Night. Opening Night for Shrek The Musical here in Chicago, and the cast took a few minutes to pose for some photos next to an amazing piece of “Edible Art by Orlando”. Check out the Highlights from the Opening Night Green Carpet Below!

An Unexpected Evening

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:53:31 -0500

I hadn’t planned on blogging again until the new show began, however tonight’s light show over Chicago forced my hand. Spent the evening 40 stories up on the roof of my apartment building in Chicago with the cameras... Check out the aftermath photo to the right, and the rest of the highlights below!
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One last blog... for a while

Sun, 30 May 2010 17:48:37 -0500

Well, one chapter has ended and already I have begun the next. I have officially ended my time with the National Tour of Grease, and am starting to work on my next tour... Shrek the Musical. As you can imagine, the next few months of my life are going to be a little busy without adding in any photography projects into it, however, I will be spending 12 weeks this summer in Chicago, so who knows what will come up. Anyways, I figured the best way to take a hiatus from my blog would be to highlight the last few months of photo projects and shoots with the kids on the Grease Tour! Check out the photos below and feel free to browse the backlog of blogs by clicking on the previous and next buttons below. Have a great summer!
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Catching up on Jacksonville...

Mon, 17 May 2010 23:57:36 -0500

On a warm, humid, afternoon in Jacksonville, I went exploring with Preston and Christina looking for some headshot options for them both. Thanks to the input of Ms. Elizabeth Stacey, I was introduced to the ‘Elizabeth Stacey’ pose. (it has now been added to my repertoire and will now always be referred to as such.) I had never really played with height perspective in headshots prior to her suggestion, and I think everyone involved was quite pleasantly surprised with the outcome of what began as a sticky and somewhat uninspiring day... Let me know what you think!

Cleveland Nights

Sun, 16 May 2010 00:29:39 -0500

I headed out into the streets of Cleveland, OH tonight with the amazingly beautiful Ruby Lewis and Dayla Perkins...
What follows are a few of the highlights... as they were shot...
(with the exception of some very minor cropping to shift the aspect ratio to a few of them)

Nothing like a few hours hanging out in back alleys of Middle-America with 5 speed lights, some color filters, a few light stands, a softbox, and two beautiful models... I think you will agree that the outcome was well worth the few hours in the cool night air... Let me know what you think!

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Final Weeks

Thu, 13 May 2010 12:19:17 -0500

The Grease Tour has finally arrived in Cleveland, Ohio... our 48th and final stop. I have spent a LOT of time in the past three months preparing for the end of this tour. In Pittsburgh, PA a side project that I have been working on since September 2009 finally began to come together.

I have been creating a “Grease Yearbook” for the cast and crew of the tour that has finally arrived! 46 copies of a hard cover book based around posed character portraits ranging from yearbook smiles to prom photos had grown to include numerous pages of snapshots that just barely began to chronicle the past 16 months that most of us have spent together.
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A month without a post... and not surprisingly, LOTS to show for it... stay tuned

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:38:38 -0500

It has been a busy month. As the Grease tour winds down to our final performance on May 23, I have been swamped going through close to 10,000 photos that I have taken of this tour, and trying to take advantage of the (finally) nice weather that the last four weeks of this tour seems to be bringing us. I have been hard at work with a few different closing night projects with all of these images, and will share some of them soon enough. I do want to re-visit a post I made on Feb 25th, where I referenced some promotional photos I took of ‘Danny’, [Josh Franklin] and ‘Sandy’, [Lauren Ashley Zakrin] and ‘Special Guest’ Jim Jacobs, co-creator of Grease. As it turns out, the Canon Theatre in Toronto wanted to use two of the photos of Josh and Lauren for a display outside of the theatre... Check out that photo to the right, and a few others from that day below!
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