Chicago Stereograms – an experiment with GIFs

While I was editing some photos form my recent night flight, I learned the slight perspective change experienced when circling a building via helicopter can produce the perfect stereoscopic frames if you’re shooting fast enough

Jordan Winery Photoshoot

After months of hard work, Jordan Winery’s new website has just launched and I’m really proud to see so much of the work I did contribute to the site’s design.

Jellies at the Shedd Aquarium

  UPDATE (12/11/14): On January 4, 2015 the Jellies exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium will be CLOSING! So if you still haven’t seen this exhibit, I highly recommend you visit soon soon.  Last night I had the pleasure of visiting the Shedd…

The Power of the #Hashtag: Instagram, Part 2

Hashtags are everywhere these days, and no where are they more important than on Instagram. Adding hashtags to your post is the best way to make sure new ‘grammers find your photos when they’re searching hashtags on Instagram. In my…

Top 14 Weather Photos of 2014

For the past few years, I’ve been posting a ‘top 10’ list of my storm photos form the previous 12 months. Usually, all of them come from spring and summer, but there was such a wide variety of amazing weather…

I met a kid named Mo

As you can probably tell, I prefer to stay behind the camera , but in this post, I’m actually in front of it. Long story short, a few weeks ago I hung out with Mo David, a talented young filmmaker, so…

Embrace the Square: Tips for Getting the Most Out of Instagram

I was honored to get an invite from Chris at ‘Out of Chicago‘ to discuss a bunch of my techniques and tips for upping your Instagram game. Here are a few snippets: Find Your Style The key to a successful…

Flying over the Wrigley Renovations

For the Chicago Cubs it’s literally a rebuilding season. Despite being a fan all my life, I’m sad to say I have very few photographs of Wrigley ‘the way it was’. Now, my goal is to capture ‘how it will…

Saturn Rise

I had the pleasure of seeing an early screening of ‘Interstellar’ and was absolutely blown away! During one scene (no spoilers, don’t worry) when Saturn is beautifully depicted on the giant IMAX screen in all of its glory, I remembered…

Open House Chicago 2014

I’ve been so busy editing photos from this weekend’s Open House Chicago, that I handed over my blog to Amy; my wife, assistant, and adventure buddy to recap out explorations… Open House Chicago, expertly coordinated by the Chicago Architectural Foundation,…