St. Patrick’s Day 2015

Thanks to Choose Chicago and Shoreline Sightseeing, I had a front-row seat to the 2015 St. Patrick’s Day festivities along the Chicago River. What started as a chilly morning turned into a picture-perfect day. Bright sunshine, and some thin high-altitude…

Winter is gone! Aerials in early March

Just a little under two weeks ago I was flying high above Chicago documenting the frigid end to February. Then, last Wednesday I took to the skies again to shoot a client property near O’Hare. Once the shoot was wrapped…

Flying over Wrigley Field – Winter Update

Last November I flew over Wrigley Field to snag some rare photos of a bleacher-less Wrigley Field (See those photos here). With a nice blanket of snow on the ground, and a good deal of structural steel up in left field,…

2015 Choose Chicago Artist of the Year

I’ve been working hard behind-the-scenes for a few months, but can officially announce that I am the 2015 Choose Chicago Artist of the Year! Over the next year, I will work with the Choose Chicago team to create custom gallery…

Chicago Stereograms – an experiment with GIFs

While I was editing some photos form my recent night flight, I learned the slight perspective change experienced when circling a building via helicopter can produce the perfect stereoscopic frames if you’re shooting fast enough

Jordan Winery Photoshoot

After months of hard work, Jordan Winery’s new website has just launched and I’m really proud to see so much of the work I did contribute to the site’s design.

Jellies at the Shedd Aquarium

  UPDATE (12/11/14): On January 4, 2015 the Jellies exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium will be CLOSING! So if you still haven’t seen this exhibit, I highly recommend you visit soon soon.  Last night I had the pleasure of visiting the Shedd…

The Power of the #Hashtag: Instagram, Part 2

Hashtags are everywhere these days, and no where are they more important than on Instagram. Adding hashtags to your post is the best way to make sure new ‘grammers find your photos when they’re searching hashtags on Instagram. In my…

Top 14 Weather Photos of 2014

For the past few years, I’ve been posting a ‘top 10’ list of my storm photos form the previous 12 months. Usually, all of them come from spring and summer, but there was such a wide variety of amazing weather…

I met a kid named Mo

As you can probably tell, I prefer to stay behind the camera , but in this post, I’m actually in front of it. Long story short, a few weeks ago I hung out with Mo David, a talented young filmmaker, so…