Busch Stadium in STL

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!

Wow, the weather this past weekend in Peoria and St. Louis was outstanding! We had some rain and a wonderful Canadian cold front that pushed all of the heat and humidity out of the area. The temps were in the mid 70’s and it could have been nicer! We were able to get out of Peoria for a much needed weekend of R & R in St. Louis and it was great. It had been a couple of years since we’d been to a Cardinal game and the weather was perfect on Saturday night, so we grabbed some tickets and made a night of it! There are few stadiums that offer such a beautiful background as Busch Stadium and seeing the city of St. Louis and the Arch as the view is wonderful!!!!

I was able to get a great panoramic shot of the stadium and the city and that’s what I’m sharing with you today!

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

Kev

PS, Being a Cubs fan and having my horrible team hopelessly out of the playoffs, I didn’t shed to big of a tear when the Cardinals lost the game! he-he-he!!!!!!

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Tee it up for the troops 2012!

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

For my friends here in the US, I hope that you have a safe and wonderful Labor Day Weekend! It’s going to be very nice to have a short work week!

This past week I was out shooting for the second year in a row at the Tee it up for the Troops charity event at Mt. Hawley country club here in Peoria. It’s an great event that has raised a bunch money nationally and locally here in Peoria as well! In the morning round of golf, all the golfers are current or retired military and Mt. Hawley and Peoria Country Club provide free golf to all participants. It’s a very nice event and I think that everyone has a great time!!!!

Here are a few of my snaps from the day to check out!

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

Kev

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It’s time for some football!!!

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

It’s getting to be that time of year when football season gets going! Already the local Peoria High School teams had their first games this past weekend and we’ll have the college and NFL seasons starting in the next couple of weeks. I can’t wait to see a game in person or just kick back on the couch and watch them at home!

Right before I left for my world shoot back in July, I was able to do a shoot for my friends at Schutt Sports! We had a great shoot as always and shot a variety of shots and it worked out great!!! Here’s one of my shots of our three football players all decked out in some Schutt gear!

Next weekend here in the US is Labor Day weekend. If you’ll be traveling like I am, have fun and be safe!!!!

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

Kev

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Hydro Gear

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

I always like it when I get to shoot with a new client and this past week I got to do a shoot for Hydro Gear! Unless you’re in the riding lawn mower manufacturing business (or you’re from Sullivan, Illinois), you’ve probably never heard of Hydro Gear. The company is the global leader in the manufacture of hydrostatic transmissions and a number of other products. It’s one of the best parts of my job to be able to go in and see what a great company is doing and how efficient and quality driven that they are!

We just scratched the surface on day one with all that we did and I can’t wait to go back and shoot some more photos for them! Here’s some of my shots from that first day of the people of Hydro Gear.

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

Kev

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DeMorgenzon Wine Estates

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!!

One of the places where we got to shoot at a couple of weeks ago in South Africa was the DeMorgenzon Wine Estate. It’s a place that you can see up on the hill and the views from this estate are incredible!!! I know that when I go back to visit South Africa, this will be one of my stops again and I’ll be able to spend a little more time next time!

Here’s some of my snaps from the DeMorgenzon Winery!!!

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

Kev

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Rio de Janeiro Sunset

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!!

I made it back from my world trip this past Wednesday and four hours later I was on my way to Griffin, Ga. for a shoot on Thursday and Friday! I’m leaving today for a shoot here in the Midwest, so it’s crazy busy and that sure is a wonderful feeling!!!!

Last weekend I was shooting in Rio de Janeiro and one of the things that I wanted to do last year when I was there was to get a night shot of the city! It didn’t happen becuase of time constraints last year, but this time it did! We were able to shoot from the top of Sugarloaf Mountain and it’s a heck of a view of the entire Rio area! If you’re going to go in the future, I can highly recommend it!!!!

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

Kev

Cape Town, SA

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Monday morning greetings from Rio de Janeiro!

I’ve been on an incredible shoot over the past two weeks and we’ve got a few more days here in Brazil before coming back home to Peoria on Wednesday and that will be very nice! Lots of stuff and people to shoot in Dubai, South Africa, Namibia and finally here in Brazil. To me it’s always incredible that I’m asked to do shoots like this, so I feel very blessed indeed!

Here’s one of my snaps of Cape Town, South Africa at night and this one looks spectacular!!!!!

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

Kev

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Dubai

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Monday morning greetings from Cape Town, South Africa!

I’m out on the road and was shooting in Dubai this past week! This was my second trip there and I really like the city, but not in July!!!! We were there for four days and the coolest day with the heat index was 115 and on the first morning in the port city of Fujairah, it was well north of 125 and that’s getting to be dangerously hot!!!! Despite that, we were able to get a number of great shots and this is one of them! We wanted to get a night shot of the city and try something different, so we went and shot all the buildings along Sheikh Zayed Road. If you look on the right side of the image, you’ll see the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa!

It’s time for me to get busy, we start shooting in Cape Town in a couple of hours!!!

Thanks as always for checking out my work and I’ll have more to share next week!!!

Kev

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“Elvis has left the building!”

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Monday morning greetings to one and all from plane over the Atlantic Ocean!

One of the things that I always loved about Elvis was at his concerts when he was done performing, he would wave to the crowd as the band played his exit music and he would be whisked to the waiting limo by security and he would leave the arena. The PA announcer would say the famous “Elvis has left the building” line once he was gone and then the audience knew that there wouldn’t be any more encores and it was time to leave! I always thought that since Elvis was larger then life, this was a great way to make a dramatic exit!!!

We’ll unlike Elvis, I’m not larger then life, but I’ve left the studio! We closed this past Thursday on the sale of the studio and I took that check right over to the bank and deposited it and I can tell you that it was a great feeling!!!! I have zero regrets about selling it and am really looking forward to working out of the house once again!!!!! With all the shooting that I’m doing on location and not in the studio, it just made sense!!!!

Speaking of being on location, I’ll be out of the country on a shoot till August 1st. The world has truly become my studio!!!

For those of you that have never been to the studio, here it was! It wasn’t much to look at on the outside, but on the inside it was wonderful!!!

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

Kev

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Welcome to Summer!

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!

Last week in the midwest was a little toasty to say the least!!!!! The temps were well in the 100 range and the humidity was pretty off the charts as well here in Peoria. When it gets that hot, it’s probably best to stay inside in the air conditioning or be lounging in a nice cool swimming pool, that’s what a smart person would do. What did I do? I ended up shooting at one of the hottest places around regardless of the time of year, I shot at the Mapleton Foundry! I’ll tell you what, these are “real” men that work in the foundry! It’s a hot, dirty, nasty job and they do it and do it well! I think that most of us wouldn’t last but a few days working in those conditions!!!!

We were able to get some great shots and here’s one of my favorites! The guy is “pouring” the molten iron into moulds and at the end of the pour, if there’s a little extra they have an overflow and then you get all the sparks like you see in this shot!!! It was like an early Fourth of July for me!!!!

Thanks as always for taking the time to see what I’ve been shooting and I hope that you have a great week to come!!!

Kev

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