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Terry and Laura – touring their Windy City

Friday, May 7th, 2010

We headed back to the friendly confines of Chicago with another fantastic couple — Terry and Laura who are getting married in just a couple of months in our neck of the woods. They live in Chicago but plan to marry in Central Illinois.

This pair of doctors are getting ready to move to Montana shortly after getting married, but wanted to be sure to tie the knot before heading west. Both of their families live in Illinois and the surrounding states and it would have been bad to go out there and then get married.

This couple is made for each other — and lots and lots of fun to work with!

They put up with me (as many of our couples do) with my suddenly stopping where we were going for a quick shot as I was (as usual) in visual overload in the city.

We did most of the shots at Jackson Park where the Osaka Japanese gardens are located and then headed for Promontory Point. Both places are special for these two — with the Point being where Terry slowed down during a walk and proposed.

I love those romantic spots!

We will be seeing them at Illinois University’s Allerton Park later this year and very much look forward to working with them again!

Pair of lovebirds captured in on the bridge and in the water while at the Japanese gardens.

Special moments for this couple near Lake Michigan

Special moments near the lake

Laura pulls Terry along as they walk the paths at the beautiful Japanese gardens in central Chicago.

Laura flashes her smile as Terry has some fun

We stopped midway a tunnel to grab a quick -- and very unplanned -- shot near the Museum of Science and Industry.

Laura takes a bite out of Terry's ear while having fun at Promonotory Point at Lake Michigan

Training a whole new group of photographers. . .

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Wow!!!!

I looked out onto a classroom that was completely full today!  It seemed like every seat was filled and that is absolutely thrilling to be an instructor when that happens.

If you are wondering what I am babbling about – along with our business I also teach at Richland Community College in Decatur, Illinois. This is my fourth year as an adjunct (that means part-time in college-speak) faculty member.

I am so excited aboCicenas Finals 02ut this semester coming up that I can barely hold myself together. The world of digital photography continues to change so fast and so wildly that it is hard to keep up – and I have to say, when you teach photography it forces you to keep up!

When I started four years ago Photoshop CS2 was the modern program – and now we are on Photoshop CS4. No one had even heard of what has become an industry standard, Photoshop Lightroom. Cameras were topping out at 6 mB. And who would have even begun to think that digital SLRs would be  producing videos that rival cameras that costs thousands more? And that just scratches the surface.

But – one of the coolest things about all this technology and all these advances, all they do is  allow a photographer to do a better job faster. I don’t think there will ever come a time when photographers are not part  our lives. No matter the advances of camera, it still takes a human to create an image.

I have yet to see a camera that captures the quality of the light (as I heard my friend Bob Davis say more than a few times this summer) without a photographer first seeing or creating it. Nor have I ever seen a camera pose a person so they look thin or eliminate that horrible double-chin.  And lots of other things.

I have the perfect image that I’ve posted with this blog to talk about the quality of light as this gorgeous couple I shot in Bel Air, Maryland illustrates. Cool – and they were fun to work with to boot!

If I ever get a camera that can do this without my input, well, I can hang up my Nikons and fade into the sunset.

And I look forward to working with this newest crop of budding photographers on just this kind of an adventure.

Now – if only I had actually taken a photo of that classroom today! Maybe for the next  post…