Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!

If you’re over 30 years old, Summer Camp might have a different meaning then for someone under 30!  Summer Camp Central Illinois style is whole lot different that the summer camp that I went to where we swam and rode horses!!!!!  Summer Camp is the brain child of Ian Goldberg and this was the 11th annual event.  They expected 20,000 people for this years festival and I can attest to that!!!!  It’s also very surreal to be one of the oldest people at this event and also not under the influence!!!

Here’s a few snaps from the weekend and you might get a feel for what Summer Camp is all about!  

Here’s also a shot of camper Kelly and I (she was wearing a Bear hat and probably wondered why someone as old as me would be out at Summer Camp)!!!!

Thanks as always for checking out my work and have a great week!!!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings!!!!

I was outside shooting for my friends at Schutt Sports this past week and we were working on some baseball and softball snaps!!!!! Here’s a few of the goodies that we got and it’s always nice to have a great shoot like this!!!!

I hope that you have a great week and thanks for checking out my work!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!!

Sometimes things don’t go as planned in this business and this shoot was one of those times!!! I got a call from “Treasury and Risk” magazine and they were going to be doing a cover story on Caterpillar CFO, Mr. Ed Rapp. We got a shoot set up and the location was going to be at Caterpillar’s Edwards demo area. At Edwards, they’ve got a lot of very big toys out there and I had these grand ideas of how I was going to photograph Mr. Rapp with some of the bigger pieces of earth moving equipment. When I got out to Edwards, they told me that Mr. Rapp wanted to be photographed with some of the smallest equipment that Caterpillar makes since he had been in charge of this equipment in the past! Damn, time for plan “B”! Well, I was very fortunate that I had gotten out there early and was able to figure out a number of shots for the cover and inside photos to support the story! Needless to say we banged things out and got some very nice stuff for the magazine! Here’s the cover shot that the magazine picked!!!

Thanks as always for taking the time to check out my work and I hope that you have a wonderful week as always!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!!

The Broadway show “Wicked” will be playing in Peoria for 20 shows from October 12th through the 30th this year!!!!! If you want to go, when tickets go on sale, you better grab them real fast!!!!

The Peoria Civic Center had a sneak preview of Wicked this past week and it was incredible! Producer David Stone talked about the show and also had some video clips and then a couple of the performers sang two songs from the show! I have to tell you that both these young ladies were kicking it out for 10:30 in the morning!!!!!! Here’s a quick snap of the room before the performance began last week!

I for one will be going and when the tickets do go on sale, I’ll be camping out at the Civic Center to snag a couple of seats!!!!

I hope that you have a great week as always and thanks for checking out my work!!!!

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Monday morning Peoria greetings!!!!

It seems like a lifetime since I’ve said that, “Peoria greetings”, that is!!!! I’m here in town for the foreseeable future!!!!!

This past Tuesday, the Peoria Journal Star was kind enough to do a “Business Tuesday” story about me and how business is coming back. I was very humbled once I saw this and they really did a great job! If you haven’t seen the article, here’s a link for what they ran in the paper!!!! http://kevinmay.com/paper.jpg

I was over in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky last week photographing more farmers for my friends at LG Seeds. As always, these people couldn’t be more down to earth and generous and just so easy to work with!!!!! As I like to say, these are “real people” and there isn’t an ounce of pretentiousness in them! It’s a true joy to be around them and indeed they are the “Salt of the Earth”!!!! Here’s 12 of my new farming friends and you probably couldn’t ask for a better neighbor if they lived next door to you!!!!

Thanks as always for checking out my work and I hope that you have a wonderful week to come!!!!!!!

Kev

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