Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

I was able to get out this past Saturday night and see the Broadway show “Wicked” right here in Peoria at the Civic Center and if you were on the fence about going, “Do it”!!! Everything about this show is first rate and and it’s only here in town for one more week! You won’t be disappointed!!!!

I remember going to Yellowstone National Park when I was a kid and seeing the “Old Faithful” geyser and being pretty impressed back then. Having not seen it in 40 plus years, I wasn’t sure how spectacular it was going to be and was it just built up in my mind because I was young. Just like the show “Wicked”, it was incredible! I had a couple of cameras rolling for the eruption and it was on schedule with-in a couple of minutes of when they thought it might erupt! It was a perfect ‘Kevin May Blue Sky”©, so you knew the photos were going to turn out great!

Here’s one of my snaps and it’s a stitch of the whole “Old Faithful” area in all it’s glory!!!!!

Thanks as always for taking the time to check out my Monday morning photos and I hope that you have a great week to come!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Salt Lake City, Utah greetings to all!!!

I’m wrapping up a nature shooting trip out West and I’ve got lot’s and lot’s of great images that I’ll be sharing in the coming weeks! The trip started last week in South Dakota at Mt. Rushmore and I have to tell you that it’s a pretty special place! When you’re driving up to Mt. Rushmore, you can’t see anything and then all at once, there it is! It’s impressive as all get out and you just marvel at what it took to put Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln up there in granite!!!!!

Here’s one of my snaps from the day and it’s a more close up of the mountain and the men chiseled there!!!!

It’s time to get rolling back towards Peoria!!!! Thanks as always for checking out my work and I hope that you have a great week to come!!!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Mauston, Wisconsin greetings to all!

In the photography business, so much has changed over the past ten years with digital photography and the internet. I got an e-mail last week from the editor of a Swedish magazine called, SSAB World. They needed a industrial photographer to run up the road to Moline, Il. and shoot some photos of an engineer that was going to be getting an award. After a couple of e-mails we were able to get everything arranged and the shoot was scheduled and ready to go. The client wanted to have a shot with the engineer standing by a combine and holding some grain in his hands. It sounds like a pretty simple shot and to some degree it is, but we added a little bit to the degree of difficulty by doing some lighting outdoors which can sometimes be a real adventure! We shot the images into the laptop and we knew that everything was looking really good. Once we got back to Peoria and I was able to get the images into the studio computer and see them on a color corrected monitor. The first thing that I said when I saw them on monitor was “Wow”! The shots came out better then I thought that they might when we were shooting them. I was able to upload the images to the SSAB World’s server in Sweden and the gig was done. The client was ecstatic with the shots and that’s always a great feeling to make someone so happy!

This gig shows you just how much things have changed from the way that I was contacted by the client to the delivery of the images over the internet!

Here’s one of the snaps that we got from our shoot along with a nice behind the scenes look at the lighting equipment and gear that we used to pull this shot off!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

Autumn is a great time of the year to be out and about in Central Illinois and it also happens to be my favorite time of the year! The humidity of summer is gone and the days are cooler and crisper, so I took advantage of the nice day on Sunday for a little drive and made my way over to the Mississippi River and Burlington, Iowa. The Great River Bridge is one of those structures that grabs me as a photographer and it makes for great photos! Here’s one of my snaps of Burlington and the bridge at sundown yesterday!

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

Kev

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