Hopefully everyone is enjoying the spring weather, personally I had a system shock when I left Illinois early last month for Bike Week in Florida and was presented with upper 80 degree temperatures, slightly different from the upper 30's I had left. The motorcycle racing season has fully started for me and already this year I have captured images at five different professional race events, with a couple of more scheduled for this month. One other big event this month occurs a week from today, a Total Solar Eclipse in No ...Continue Reading

How was your extra day February? Wonder how often people with this birthday have problems filling out electronic forms, did the programmer think about a day that only occurs once every four years? According to an article I located on www.al.com, the date is the rarest birth day with about 1 in 1460 chance of being born on this date - guess these people should play the lottery. The are about 5 million people out of the 8 billion people on the plant that are considered leaplings, if you don't like to celebrate birthdays t ...Continue Reading

This year has started off very challenging for me personally, but I expect to turn things around and have a great year, praying that everyone reading this is having a good (or great) start to their year. Mother Nature has been throwing curve balls to most of the US so far this winter, here in Illinois we had a nearly a week of below zero temperatures. Thrown on top of those temperatures was snow, rain, ice, fog and very little sun. After a few snowstorms and starting to see some accumulation that we expected to see for ...Continue Reading

Happy 2024!!! I hope everyone had a good holiday season and is ready for the new year. 2023 was a great year with ups and downs of life, overall I can not complain as it was an adventure. This new year appears to be similar to last but that's just based on initial discussions with clients. As the old saying goes, 'Don't count your chickens until they're hatched', we will not be expecting work to fall into our laps and we will continue to find new clients and old clients with new work needed. If anyone needs some photogr ...Continue Reading

Was 2023 all that you expected? Can you believe we are entering December and nearing the start of 2024? This year was full of highs and lows for me, I can say a larger number of highs and a few lows and as I look back at the year in photos, there are numerous trips that I have yet to truly review images. Honestly, this is not abnormal, personal photography trips typically are pushed to the side and one day I will have enough material to spend a month reviewing and processing images. Overall I am happy with my results fr ...Continue Reading

We have nearly arrived at the final month of the year, hard to believe in a way but not shocking based on my schedule for the year. Personally, the last 35 days have certainly had challenges but like everything in life, you get knocked down, stand back up and dust yourself off. When we think our life is going bad, an event like the one last week in Lewiston, Maine puts things into a whole new perspective. This one hit a little closer to home since I have been in the region, Maine is not a state I think of with gun ...Continue Reading

I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy, appears COVID is making another round in the US and various flu bugs have been showing up also. Luckily I have been able to avoid both so far, which is good as last month was very busy for me. Able to attend four different motorsports events, located in four different states plus visit some other locations for wildlife and landscape images. Based on my traveling, appears fall colors are going to be mixed this year as trees are already dropping leaves or producing muted colors ...Continue Reading

Hoping everyone is staying safe and healthy, appears COVID is making another round in the US and various flu bugs have been showing up also. Luckily I have been able to avoid both so far, which is good as last month as very busy for myself. Able to attend four different motorsports events, located in four different states plus visit some other locations for wildlife and landscape images. Based on my traveling, appears fall colors are going to be mixed this year as trees are already dropping leaves or producing muted col ...Continue Reading

While the update message was sent early this morning and the system indicates the message was sent out successfully I have heard from a few readers their inbox was void of the Monthly Update today - we like smiles and not sad faces. So my apologies to those who did receive the email as this is a duplicate/resend. Can we say summer is over or should we wait until end of this month? The summer was nice and mild for a long time but it decided to hit most of the country with long duration heat wave, hopefully all reade ...Continue Reading

Can we say summer is over or should we wait until end of this month? The summer was nice and mild for a long time but it decided to hit most of the country with long duration heat wave, hopefully all readers are safe, along with their family members and friends. As mentioned in previous updates, this has been a very busy year and this past month just added to the stories to be told. Personally I had driven to the West coast once as a teenager taking a family trip, we drove to Los Angeles and San Francisco and this produ ...Continue Reading