Savanna Boat Terminal

admin on March 23rd, 2009

There is plenty of activity at the Savanna, IL grain terminal along the Mississippi River. Here a tug boat holds the barges in close to the terminal as they are being filled with corn and soybeans before being attached connected to a towboat and taken for destinations down stream.  There are many terminals along the [...]

Window Light

admin on March 23rd, 2009

Using light coming in a window can give your some very neat photographs of people and table top subjects.. In this day and age of super fast film and ISO’s on digital cameras you rarely need to use a flash indoors.
I can remember “way back when” when you had film speed with an ASA rating [...]

It’s Not The Camera, it’s The Person

admin on March 12th, 2009

When you see a photograph that you really like, you might say, “Wow, I wonder what kind of a great   camera that person owns.” Well, believe it or not, it’s not  so much the camera as it is the person behind the camera. Creative people can take very good photographs with a cheap camera [...]

Bus in Times Square

admin on March 8th, 2009

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It is amazing what you find going through your old files. I came across this scene, which was taken in 1958 in Times Square, going through some old negatives. I actually like this one better than the one I have shown in my exhibits, which was taken at the same time. The bus adds [...]

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