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Grace

A few images from the Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce’s monthly membership meeting at Ballet 5:8. We were treated to a performance of a few bits from the Nutcracker. They are getting ready for upcoming performances; check out their profile.

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Categories Analogue

The Slow Way – Portrait Leasons From Film

 Making portraits with a vintage process is a deliberate and slow choice.  Image creation that is measured in minutes per image, not images per second. Working with this slow method allows me to take time with my subject: time to visualize, connect and see more.   Photographing with a…

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Categories Portraits

It’s good to get out once in a while –

 It’s Good to Get Out Once in a While.   Sometimes it’s vital to get way out of your surroundings, not only to see new things but to experience how others see the world. Charlie, a mechanical engineer, has many interests that speak to his passion for how things…

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Categories Analogue

36 years and counting

 The image below was from my first photography class, the first roll of film I shot, and the first print I brought out of the darkroom. George Strimbu, my dearly loved professor, looked at the image still wet in the tray and asked, “Have you ever thought of…

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Categories Portraits

My shut-in selfie…

  My shut-in selfie… Say that ten times fast.   Balancing the Deardorff on the selfie stick was a bit of a trick. Definitely a historical image. The beard is now gone and probably will never come back.⁠

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