Savanna Boat Terminal
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 Mississippi River where there is non stop activity by trucks as the farm crops are hauled to these terminals for destinations unknown. Share this:...
Read MoreWindow Light
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 of 24 and 32 and then plus X came along with a rating of 100. I believe it was in the early 50’s that Kodak came out with Tri X film which made it possible to take photo indoors without a flash…it was called “available light” photography. Using window light on your subject’s face...
Read MoreIt’s Not The Camera, it’s The Person
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 just as well as they can with a real expensive one. In these days you can get a throw-a way-camera at the drug store for $7.9 or less, or you can spend thousands for a top notch digital one, but it’s what you see from behind the camera that really counts. Don’t be discouraged if you have a cheaper...
Read MoreBus in Times Square
> 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 a decided emphasis to the night scene. Share this:...
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Award winning photographer, Franklin (Frank) Brueske, is originally from Southeastern Minnesota. He became interested in photography while in elementary school and purchased his first camera from a rural community drug store when he was is the sixth grade. It took 127 film, was fixed focus, but had sun and cloud adjustments. He still has that camera today. More about Frank
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