Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!!

I was over in Dugger, Indiana for a quick shoot last week. We were shooting some photos at the Bear Run Coal Mine and we met a lot of very nice people and that’s always a very good thing! One of the people that we met was Jeff and he works on servicing some of the mine vehicles for the mine. We wanted to grab a quick portrait of Jeff with one of the bulldozers in the background. When I got back to the studio, I started to play with the image and have a little fun working on it. I wanted to give this photo a little more of a gritty feel and by converting it to black and white and doing a few other things in PS, I think that it worked great!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!!!!

Today is the start of year 23 of self-employment and I have to tell you that I feel pretty darn blessed to be doing something that I so love to do!!!! It’s been a great ride so far and it’s not over yet!!!! I’m always amazed to think of where I started and all the wonderful places that I’ve had shoots at!

Here’s todays photo from the Painted Desert in Northern Arizona!

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 Peoria greetings to one and all!!!!!

One of the things that happens when I go on a big road trip is that sometimes I don’t always get to look through everything that I’ve shot on that trip! Typically when I’m out like that, I’ll “work up” some of my photos in Photoshop and it’s the ones that grab me right away. When I get back home and if time permits, I’ll work up some of the other photos that I didn’t have time to work on before! This snap taken last October from Yellowstone National Park at the Great Prismatic Spring is one of those shots! There were a couple of dead trees that were obstructing part of the shot and they really stood out like a sore thumb and I knew that it was going to take a lot of work to remove them from the photo. I was finally able to take the time (and also have the patience) to remove those dead trees and make this shot even better then it was!!!!! Next time I visit out there, I’ll take a chain saw and cut down the dead trees and then I won’t have to worry about doing and Photoshop work!!!! lol

Here’s my panoramic stitch of the entire Midway Geyser Basin and the Grand Prismatic Spring!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!

We’ve really lucked out with the weather in Peoria this winter and now into spring!!! I cut the grass at the house for the first time last week and that’s something that usually doesn’t happen for a couple more weeks! Spring is in the air and with the trees budding and flowers starting to bloom, things are look a whole lot better around here!!!! Here’s a couple of quick snaps of the Red Bud and it’s in full force and that’s always a sure sign of spring!

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

Kev

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