This is my final post for this year. Has it been a good year? I don’t know, maybe. Will next year be better? I don’t know, maybe. I wish to thank those who have visited me these few months since I launched the blog. It’s been slow at the beginning but I hope that I’ve [...]

I finally got the chance to go to downtown Chicago. “Finally” because it’s rather far from where I live, I hate paying for the parking and since it’s the end of December, the weather isn’t helping either. This time I picked the right day, Sunday December 24th, the day before Christmas. The weather was sunny [...]

I guess I should call this one “Christmas Edition” even if it doesn’t have anything to do with Christmas. It just happens that I’m posting it today I took this contre-jour photo at a high shutter speed. I “helped” the final result a bit in Photoshop. The original was a lot warmer but I wanted [...]

Is there art in nature? Definitely. Is there art in my nature photographs? Debatable. What’s certain is nature’s beauty. I tried to capture some of it on this hike through one of my favorite Illinois parks. These images were taken a couple of months back, when the weather was still warm. This is a view [...]

For my daylight testing of my vintage rangefinder, I was lucky to get a nice, sunny day. I had high hopes for this shooting. I went to a park that has a very long bike track, about 7 miles in length, in one of the suburbs of Illinois. I decided I didn’t want to waste [...]