Whenever I hear about the Mississippi River, I think of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn floating down the mighty river on their makeshift raft. Oh how I miss the days of my childhood when I sat down with ol’ Mark Twain and devoured every word he wrote. Incidentally Mark Twain is one of the powerful [...]

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 [...]