Cerise Rooftop at Virgin Hotel Chicago

There can never be too many open-air, public rooftops in this city. And Chicago’s getting a new one on Wednesday April 29th when Virgin Hotel Chicago opens up their new indoor/outdoor terrace, ‘Cerise’. This rooftop spot will serve Japanese small plates,…

Hancock Fog Storm

From time to time I create these ‘SurrealScapes’ of the city for fun, and thought a few shots from two recent visits to the Hancock would make for a cool blend. In this image, I’ve layered three separate photos together….

Adler Planetarium: Mission Moon

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of working with the Adler Planetarium on their newest exhibit, Mission Moon. I was tasked with photographing the exhibit both empty and with volunteers interacting with the exhibit’s elements. And now that…

Chitecture Worldwide InstaMeet 11

This weekend marked Instagram’s Worldwide InstaMeet 11. To celebrate the occasion, the guys who run my favorite Chicago-themed Instagram community, @Chitecture, organized a pretty epic event to kick off the #WWIM11 weekend. In partnership with Choose Chicago, they got 350 photographers up…

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.