Another 30 miles or so to the west and slightly north from Galena, right across the Illinois border and the Mississippi, on the banks of the same river is the small town of Dubuque, Iowa. I’ve been here twice and what I liked about this town is the industrial-age look and the red brick buildings [...]

If you drive about 30 miles north from the Mississippi Palisades State Park you will reach a quaint little town called Galena. It seems to be rather famous around these parts for 2 reasons that I discern: skiing and balloon rides. The surrounding rolling countryside isn’t bad either, in fact it is quite idyllic.
Here’s a [...]

Update: for some obscure reason I omitted to detail the shooting technique in my initial post. Here it is now, after the original article.
I won’t claim that I have become the master of coin lighting but here’s my take on this subject. Applying some of the Strobist techniques that I’ve been assimilating for such a [...]

Yesterday it snowed hard for the first time this winter. After dark I decided to take a walk around the block and shoot some photos with the Canon 50mm f/1.4. All images are shot at ISO 800 and above.
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Tire tracks in snow, ISO 800.

Light halo around a [...]

For a while it snowed in Illinois. Then the sun came out, melting all the snow.  I shot this at ISO 3200 with my Canon 30D. Happy ISO 3200 Thanksgiving everyone!

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