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 [...]

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 [...]

Based on popular demand and also on personal observation, I’ve decided to lose those cheesy borders that I was using for film photos, in favor of, well, less cheesy ones. I am still keeping a distinction between photos taken with digital and those taken on film by using different borders. Well, enough border-talk…

Instead of writing [...]

Starting off this series of pictures taken with the Canonet QL17 G-III are a couple of photos taken in my favorite forest preserve.

Moving on closer to Chicago’s downtown, I snapped this while waiting for my order in a Subway. Come to think of it I wasn’t even ordering; I was just waiting for a friend [...]