Sunny Peoria Monday morning greetings to all,

I had one of those shoots last week that was a blast! Sure we busted our butts and worked a lot of hours, but we had a fun shoot! I was up in Wisconsin shooting Utility Vehicles (UTV for short) and we had these everywhere from farming applications to hunting to factories. For this shot that I’m sending today, I told our model to drive like a “bat of of hell” and she did! I wanted to give a sensation of speed and motion to the shot and I think that we got what we were after!

Let’s all have a great week and thanks as always for checking out my work!

Kev

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Sunny Monday morning greetings to all!

Having loved and played pinball and video games about all my life, we had the ultimate video game here in the studio last week! It’s actually a simulator that’s used for training machine operators and it’s probably the ultimate video game on steroids! The simulators and the software are made right here in Central Illinois at a company called Simformation/CSE Software and that’s very cool!

The client wanted to shoot these simulators all set up and I suggested we do some quick time lapse photography of the pieces being assembled so that they can use it on the web site.

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

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CSE

Foggy Peoria Monday morning greetings to all,

I was out at Wildlife Prairie Park on Saturday with the Peoria Flickr group for the September photo walk. The animals were a little sleepy when we were out there and I wasn’t getting the images I had hoped for, so I switched gears from trying the photograph the animals to finding other things that I could shoot. Here’s a sample of some of my snaps from Saturday.

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

Kev

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Sunny Peoria Monday morning greetings to all,

I had quite a little road trip before Labor Day weekend and it was great! I was swamped this summer with work (I’m not complaining at all) and one of the things that I didn’t have time to do was shoot some photography for myself and I really need to do that from time to time to keep my creative batteries recharged. This photo-safari was all about photography and not about visiting friends along the way. In 18 days that I was gone from Peoria, I saw 16 states and logged 5381 miles in the car and I had a blast!

I’ve put together a little pdf with some of the snaps along the way. Here’s a link for the pdf http://kevinmay.com/westtripkmc2009.pdf

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

Kev

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Sunny Atlanta Monday morning greetings to all,

My vacation is almost over and today I’m driving back to Peoria! Man it’s been fun! Next week I’ll share some of my road snaps from this 5000 mile trip!

To make a long story short, I’ve been a fan of motor-sports for a very long time and I’d never attended a NASCAR race in person until last night! This was the first ever night race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway and I have to tell you that it was spectacular!!!!!! I can’t recommend it enough!!!!

Here’s one of my snaps from this beautiful facility!

Thanks as always for checking out my snaps!

Kev

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Sunny Las Cruces, N.M. Monday greetings to all!

I’m still out west and have been here in New Mexico visiting my folks for a few days and that’s been very nice! On my way down here the other day, I passed over the Navajo Bridge in Northern Arizona and caught a group of rafters and kayakers floating down the Colorado River! I’m sure that they might of even had a cold adult beverage or two on a hot August day!!!

Thanks again and always for checking out my snaps and I hope that you have a safe Labor Day weekend!!!!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Idaho greetings to all!

Over the last number of years, the last few weeks of August are very slow for me (work wise), so it’s a great time to leave town and get out and shoot some photography for me! I was over at Mt. Rushmore a couple of days ago and I hadn’t been there in 40 plus years, so I don’t remember too much of it. I have to tell you that it’s pretty darn impressive and if you haven’t seen it, you might think about making a trip out to the Black Hills of South Dakota! Here’s one of my snaps!

Thanks as always and I hope that you have an outstanding week!

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

I was fortunate to be down in St. Louis over the weekend and took in a Cardinal ball game at beautiful Busch Stadium and it sure was fun seeing a little major league action!

Here’s one of my patented “stitch” shots (with my point and shoot camera no less) from the cheap seats!!!!!!

Thanks and I hope that you have a great week as always!

Kev

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Hot Peoria Monday morning greetings to all!

I was in Sioux City, Iowa last week shooting photos for a new Stoney Creek hotel and I had a new challenge and it was a bit tough. The client wanted to get a shot of the presidential suite and wanted to show the size of the room. She asked if I could do one of my patented “stitch” shots (a series of photos that the computer assembles to make one large panoramic shot) and after thinking about it, I gave it a try. The challenge for me is that I’m normally doing these “stitch” shots outside or in a room at night that’s already “lit”. The other challenge was the fact that I only had four lights to supplement the lighting already there!

Here’s my snap and I’m pretty darn happy with it!

Thanks as always for checking out my work and I hope that you have an outstanding week!

Kev

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Sunny Omaha Monday morning greetings to all!

I’ve been on a real tear for the last two and a half months with work and that’s been great! One of the things that I haven’t had time to do since early May is get out and shoot some shots for myself! It’s something that helps recharge my creativity and keeps me going! I’ve got a shoot this week in Souix City, Ia. at a new Stoney Creek hotel that’s just opened and I decided to leave a day early and shoot some stuff for me!

Here’s my shot of the city of Omaha, Ne. and they’ve got this very cool pedestrian bridge that leads from Omaha across the Missouri River to Council Bluffs, Ia. The Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge snakes across the river in an “S” shape!
Thanks as always and have a great week!!!

Kev

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