Monthly Archives: June 2013

The “New” Pere Marquette

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!

The grand lady of Peoria is back and better then ever. The “New” Pere Marquette is reopening later this week and I think the people of Peoria are going to be very impressed with what they see. The Pere was really in need of a major overhaul for a long time, but no one was willing to take a big risk and spend the money needed to restore it and bring it back until now. It was a jewel when it was first built in 1926 and I think that they have restored it back to that same condition! For those of my friends that are here in Peoria, drive by and you’ll see a very different Pere when you look in the windows!

I was shooting photos at the hotel this past week for ads that will be running in the coming weeks. For this first ad, they wanted to get a great night shot of the hotel. They had it all lit up for me and I was very fortunate to have a great night to get the shot!!! Here’s my shot and the first ad for the “New” Pere Marquette!

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

Kev

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Canton Cruise In

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

One of the questions that I get asked a lot is if I miss having the studio since I sold it last July. For the most part I really haven’t, but there is one thing that I have missed shooting and that is all of the cars and bikes that we shot in there in the past. It was always a lot of fun and challenging as well to do some lighting and make them look good! I was able to get a bit of a fix this past Friday night down in Canton, Illinois at their annual “Cruise In” for 2013. They had the entire downtown blocked off and well in excess of 200 cars and bikes on display. For me getting to go and shoot an event like this is always a big challenge becuase of all the people around the different vehicles. My challenge as always is to try to shoot some interesting shots and different angles and yet not have a bunch of people in the photos. I spent a couple of hours at the Cruise In walking around and checking everything out and shooting some of the cars that grabbed my interest! All and all it was a great event and the city of Canton should be very proud of how well it was organized and attended!!!

Here’s a few of my snaps from this years Canton Cruise In!

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

Kev

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Dozer Park

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

This past Friday evening the Peoria Chiefs minor league baseball team had a ribbon cutting for the renaming of their ball park. The former O’Brien Field has now become Dozer Park and will be for at least the next ten years! The stars of the evening were two guests that might surprise you. No, it wasn’t Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman and his wife Diane, but their two black labs Dozer and Diesel. The two labs were the rock stars of the evening and the kids that were waiting to get into the game mobbed those two pooches with lots of pets and hugs! Dozer and Diesel were great and were loving all the loving that they got that night!!!!!!

Here’s a few of my shots from the evening spent at the new Dozer Park!

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

Kev

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Dirty Jobs

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

I was down in Galveston, Texas late last week for a quick gig on a dirty job! My friend Mike Rowe would feature different tough jobs on his show “Dirty Jobs” and the one that we were shooting last week would qualify to be on the show! We were down shooting photos and video (Water Street Media) for Honeywell Safety who makes a great new respirator product for people doing dirty jobs! As you can see in my photos, we had guys that are doing sand blasting of metal parts for Gulf Copper Dry Dock and Ship Repair in Galveston. Trust me, this is a dirty job that you don’t want to do! This new respirator that Honeywell has made is a great product that pumps cool clean air into the orange hood that you see in my photos. It’s a hot nasty job in the summer time, so to be getting cool air to the head gear and also have that air be free of dust and dirt particles is huge!

Here’s a couple of my shots from Galveston and despite being hot and sweaty on this shot, we sure had a lot of fun working with this guys!!!!

It’s time to get to work, so I hope that you have a wonderful week and thanks for taking time to see my weekly photos!!!!

Kev

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