The end of summer

Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!

Editing, editing, editing! Yes, I’ve been a video editing machine these past couple of weeks and we have been cranking out the video projects right and left! We go through these periods where we do a bunch of the same thing for days on end, so there are times where we are shooting and other times like this past couple of weeks that it was a lot of editing. We’re busy and that’s a very good thing! May, June, July and August is traditionally our busiest time of the year and this summer was no exception! Besides all the shoots that we did here in Central Illinois. we also had shoots in five different states and Canada. I don’t know how many miles Jan and I spent in the Explorer, but I have to think that it was at least 10,000 miles! It’s a good thing that we both like to drive because if we didn’t, that would be brutal!!!

Today’s photo is our home base city of Peoria and it’s been great being here these past three weeks. We’re enjoying our time here at home knowing that the road trips will be starting up again soon and we’ll be back on the road once again!

We’ve got one more week before the end of summer with the Labor Day weekend, so if you’re going to be traveling for the holiday, make it a safe one! Thanks as always for checking out our work and we hope that you have a great last week of summer!!!

Kev and Jan

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Pizza time

Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!

It sure was nice to spend this past week in Peoria and to be home for a change! As I talked about last week, we’ve been on the road a bunch these past few months and there’s so much that you miss out on when you’re out on the road. To me it’s the little things like sleeping in your own bed and eating your own food that make being home so good. We had a busy week with a couple of shoots and then a ton of video editing work as well, so it was a nice mix of things going on and that’s never a bad thing!

For those of you that don’t know, I live just down the road from Kickapoo, Illinois which is just West of Peoria about 10 miles. There’s not ever been a bevy of dinning options in Kickapoo, but for those that do know Central Illinois, there’s always been Ludy’s. It’s a small little bar that has some of the best hamburgers and cold beer around and they’ve even got picnic tables outside and in the summertime, it’s great to sit outside and enjoy the warm summer weather. Sure we could go down the road to Peoria for food, but it’s nice to have some places close to home. Well now Kickapoo has added a second restaurant and it’s a good one! Pizza 150 is a brand new restaurant that was constructed on the site of another little hole in the wall bar in Kickapoo that is long gone. I had watched the construction going on earlier this year and wondered what the building was going to be and to my surprise, it was another restaurant. From the outside you could tell that it was going to be a nice place and the first time I walked in, I was blown away by how nice it was. Now to me a nice place is a place that’s laid back and I feel comfortable just chilling out and having a few cold beers along with some great food. Pizza 150 fits that bill to a T for me! So if you’re in Central Illinois and looking for a new place to check out, give Pizza 150 a try and I think you might like it too!

Here’s a couple of my shots for our friends at Pizza 150.

It’s time to get rocking, we’ve got another busy week with a ton of video editing so I’ll be chained to the computer! We hope that you have a great week as always and thanks for taking the time to check out our work!

Kev and Jan

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Cruising the boulevard

Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!

We are back in Peoria from last week’s Alabama road-trip and darn happy about that! It’s not that we didn’t have a good shoot last week or that we didn’t have fun too, because we did! It’s more about all the time that we’ve spent on these road-trips in the past few months away from home and we’ve sure spent a lot of nights in hotels! The funny thing is that after being here in town for the next month or so, we’ll be begging to go back out on the road! It’s a crazy cycle indeed! 🙂

As you might know, we love going to car shows in Central Illinois and shooting photos of the different cars. It’s not something that we do all the time, but we try to hit at least one or two each summer! When we were out in Golden, Colorado last month, apparently there is a big cruise in on the first Saturday of the month in town. The amazing thing to me is that they do this year round, so I’m sure that the weather wouldn’t be nearly as nice in December, but I guess that they get a lot of cars and people come out for it. Well, we sure couldn’t have had a better day when we were there and the amazing thing is that people were lined up on South Golden Road in lawn-chairs watching the different cars cruising up and down the road! I was truly shocked at the number of people watching and it almost reminded me of a crowd that you would see for a Fourth of July parade. Needless to say we had a great time and took lots of pictures of some of our favorite cars! Next time we’re out in Golden, Co. on the first Saturday of the month, We’ll have to do it again!!!!

Here’s a few of our snaps from the Golden cruise-in.

It’s time for us to get to work, we’ve got a lot to do to get caught up from this last week being on the road! We hope that you’re going to have a great week to come and thanks as always for taking the time to check out our work!!!

Kev and Jan

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