Rebirth

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!

Having been through parts of the Western United States, you’ll come across areas that have been devastated by forrest fires. It’s amazing to see whole areas that have burned and what little is left afterwards. It’s also incredibly amazing to see how the forrest comes back from these fires! It takes time, but it does happen!

While traveling in New Mexico last month, I could see the results of a big forrest fire that hit Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico a couple of summers ago. The Apache and Gila National Forests got rocked pretty good and you can see the scars of the fires on the blackened trees, but you can also see the forrest healing it’s self. Life is coming back and it will take time, but in 20 or so years, you probably won’t be able to tell that there ever was a fire!

Here’s a couple of my snaps from the Apache National Forrest and you can see the life coming back to the forrest!

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

Kev

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Needles Overlook at Canyonlands and 3000 Flickr photos

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

On my trip out West a few weeks ago, I was able to visit the Needles Overlook at Canyonlands National Park in Utah and it’s spectacular! The Needles Overlook is south of Moab and it’s about a 22 mile drive one way out in the middle of nowhere, but well worth it! You’ll see incredible views from a couple thousand feet above the Needles area of Canyonlands!!! Here’s one of my snaps of the Needles areas!

I’ve been on a photo sharing website called Flickr for almost seven years now and this weekend I just uploaded my 3000th photo. The thing that I love about Flickr is that I have a ton of photos on a wide variety of subjects that people can check out! If you’re wanting to see a bunch of my photography, here’s a link for the different sets of photos that I have on Flickr. Enjoy!!!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmay/sets

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

Kev

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Arches National Park Time Lapse

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all of my friends around the globe!!!!

If you’ve known me for any amount of time, you know that my favorite national park is Arches in Moab, Utah. I guess that for someone from the Midwest to see those red rocks and the formations is nothing like we have here with our flat landscape and cornfields! There is just something about that area of the country that calls me to come back again and again and explore all the different areas of the park!!!!

I was able to put together a nice time lapse from the park at three different areas within Arches; Devils Garden, Delicate Arch and the La Sal Mountains.

Here’s also a link for the image on the right of some tracks going through the snow at Arches! Your guess is as good as mine as to what kind of animal makes tracks like these!

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

Kev

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Back in the ball game

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Monday morning greetings to one and all!!!!

Happy New Year and I have a feeling that most of us are now back to work! Wow, It sure was nice to be off durning the Christmas holiday!!!!!

I spent some time this past week at one of my favorite National Parks in the US! Arches National Park in Moab, Utah is one of our treasures here in the US and I feel like it’s my home away from home! If you’ve been there, you might know what I’m talking about. If not, make a road trip there and I guarantee you won”t be disappointed!!!!!

Here’s one of my snaps of Delicate Arch at sundown and to see the La Sal mountains as the background is wonderful!!!

Have a great week as always and thanks for checking out my work!!!!

Kev

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2012 Top Ten Kevin May Photos

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Thursday afternoon greetings from a snowy Las Cruces, New Mexico!

I’ve put together my top ten photos from 2012 and wanted to show the variety of gigs that we did for clients this past year.

I’ve got two links for you, to view the PDF version, click on this link http://kevinmay.com/2012topten.pdf
to view the Powerpoint version, click on this link http://kevinmay.com/2012topten.ppt

Thanks for checking out my top ten photos and I hope that you have a great weekend!!!!

Kev

2012 is almost in the books!!!

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Monday morning Moab, Utah greetings to one and all!!!

It’s amazing to me that this year has rocketed by so fast!!!! I would always rather have it be that way then slow and grinding!!!! I’m looking forward to 2013 and all the fun and adventure that it will bring!!!!

I’m out in Moab, Utah this week shooting some nature photography and I think of this place as my home away from home!!!! Here’s one of my snaps from the Colorado River.

I hope that you have a very safe and wonderful 2013 and I’ll have more photos to share as always!!!!!

Kev

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The best Peoria Illinois sunset ever?

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Christmas Eve Peoria greetings to all my friends around the world!!!!

The end of the year is almost here and it seems like just yesterday it was summer time and hotter then heck!

Peoria has been my home for over 30 years now and I can remember coming here when I first started at Bradley University all those many years ago. No matter where I go or what I do, it’s always a wonderful feeling to come back home to Peoria!!!!

Here’s todays promo and the city of Peoria looks great! Sunset on the Illinois River from under the Murray Baker Bridge with Peoria in the background!
I’ve also done an incredible Time Lapse of the same setting of Peoria and do yourself a favor and see this 30 second video on YouTube. Watch in at HD quality for a real treat! Here’s the link

I hope that you and yours have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Kwanzaa!!!!! Thanks as well for checking out my work, I really appreciate it!!!!!

Have a great one!!!!

Kev

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More football and the Holiday season!!!!!!

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

The year is really starting to wind down and for a lot of people I know and this will be the last week of work with Christmas coming in just eight days! It’s hard to believe that Christmas and New Years are almost here!!!!!

I had a great shoot a week ago with my friends at Schutt Sports and we were shooting some new images for their upcoming trade show season after the first of the year! We had our great model Robert once again and he really does a incredible job and is so easy for me to work with!!!! It’s a lot of fun when the images are coming together and looking so good!!!!

If you’re going to be traveling this coming week for Christmas, be safe and have a wonderful Holiday season!!!!!

All my best as always and have a great week!!!!!

Kev

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Jeff Burton, Richard Childress, and a new Cat race car!

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!

We’re fast approaching the end of the year and things are starting to wind down as they always do here in December!

This past week here in Peoria I got to shoot a fun event at the Caterpillar Visitors Center. Nascar’s RCR (Richard Childress Racing) unveiled their new version of the Cat Chevrolet Impala SS for the 2013 NASCAR racing season. They pulled out all the stops on this one and brought the race car up to Peoria in one of their race haulers and to see that rig in person is amazing!!! Car owner Richard Childress and driver Jeff Burton were also there to do the big unveil and then talk with the media and also do an autograph session with the fans! I was amazed to see Richard and Jeff still having smiles and be upbeat at the end of the two hour autograph session and you have to know that they were both probably a little tired, but they never showed it!!!! Smiles all around!!!!!!

Here’s this weeks promo with some of my snaps from the day at the CVC!

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

Kev

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Canyon de Chelly, Arizona

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!

I’m back at it here in Peoria this week and it’s good to be back home after having been gone for a couple of weeks!!

One of places that I got to visit for the first time was Canyon de Chelly in Chinle, Arizona. It’s one of those places that if you are going to visit, you’ve got to make a special trip to see it. Chinle, Az. is in the Northwest corner of Arizona and it’s out in the middle of nowhere! I went there to shoot “Spider Rock” and in todays photo, it’s the formation right in Canyon de Chelly. Here’s my photo of Spider Rock.

I also did a time-lapse of Spider Rock as well and this was the longest one that I’ve ever done! Up to this point, the longest time-lapse that I have done was three hours, but for this one, I was there for eight hours. You’ll see eight hours of time compressed down to one minute.

I have also made a couple of desktop images for your computer screen as well of this great image!

Here’s a link of the image for a normal screen. http://kevinmay.com/CdCnormal.jpg

Here’s a link of the image for a wide screen. http://kevinmay.com/CdCHD.jpg

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

Kev

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