Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!

We’ve really lucked out with the weather in Peoria this winter and now into spring!!! I cut the grass at the house for the first time last week and that’s something that usually doesn’t happen for a couple more weeks! Spring is in the air and with the trees budding and flowers starting to bloom, things are look a whole lot better around here!!!! Here’s a couple of quick snaps of the Red Bud and it’s in full force and that’s always a sure sign of spring!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!

One of the things that I really enjoy doing is helping out our local charities and non-profits by donating some of my photography or in the case of this gig, shooting some photos! The Morton Community Foundation was started in 2000 and has been helping fund a number of great programs in the Morton area. Lynne and Dan Walters wanted to give back to the community and along with MCF have funded a Summer Children’s Reading Program through the Morton Library. MCF wanted to get some shots of the Walters reading with the kids, so we got out last week and helped them out! Here’s one of my favorite shots of Lynne Walters reading with North at the Morton Library!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!!!

I’ve been in Peoria since the early 80’s when I first came here to go to school at Bradley University and in all the time that I’ve been here, I’ve never been to the top of Tower Park in Peoria Heights! I think that it’s always that way that you just never visit some of the places in your local area that some might think of as a tourist area. Here in Central Illinois, we have lots of places like that, so it’s good to get out and support our local attractions!

I was up at the top of the tower and for those that have never been up there, it’s an incredible view! They say that on a clear day you can see 20 miles and I believe them! I was up there at sundown and I was just blown away with all that you could see! All I had was my point and shoot camera, but I still got some incredible snaps! I can’t wait to go again with my big boy camera when the trees start budding and there gets to be a little color in the river valley!!!

Here’s one of my snaps and the view is up the Illinois River to the North and also out to the East as well!!!

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

Kev

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ХудожникMonday morning Peoria greetings to all my friends around the world!!!!

You’ve heard me complain about the day that we turn the clocks back in the fall as being one of the unhappiest days of the year for me! I just hate it when the sun is going down and it’s getting dark at 4:30 pm at night!!! It’s usually cold and the wind is blowing and then you add the fact that it’s dark by 5:00 pm and that all adds up to be a very unhappy time of the year for me! Now it’s the flip side of that and we’ve turn the clocks forward and we’re heading to the longest days of the year when it’s getting dark at 9:30 pm and I’m loving it!!!!

I was out shooting some snaps this past week for local Peoria attorney Joe VanFleet of his office and staff for their new web site. We had a lot of fun and were able to come away with a lot of very nice shots for them! Here’s a few of the shots that we got last week!!!

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

Kev

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

What’s going on? If you asked me that question, my response would be “not too much”! This is always a very slow time of the year for me, so I’m trying to keep myself busy with projects and getting caught up on things here at the studio!!!! I did get out yesterday morning and snagged a couple of snaps of the Peoria Riverfront and as always, it looks great!!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

I had the pleasure last week of having some of the young people from the Peoria Ballet out to my studio for a shoot! They’ve got a number of upcoming events including a show in Washington, Illinois that’s going to be a ballet to rock music! Doesn’t that sound like a lot of fun? The group spent a number of hours out here at the studio and we had them go through a bunch of their different poses and also some costume changes as well!

The other thing that blew me away about all of this was the very nice thank you note that the group had written to me! I was very moved by that and I don’t always get a thank you, so that was pretty special indeed!

Here’s a composite of images from the day with all of the young people doing there thing!!!!

Thanks again to the Peoria Ballet for coming out to my studio and making my day!!!!! You all rock!!!!!!

Kev

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President’s Day Monday morning Peoria greetings to all,

I had a great time visiting with my folks in New Mexico this past week and it’s always good to be back home as well!!!

Springtime is here! How can I be so certain you might ask? Next Sunday is the Daytona 500 and when I think of spring, that’s the start of a lot of great sporting events from the “Great American Race” to “March Madness” to the Masters!!! The flowers are about ready to bloom!!!!

When I’m out visiting my folks in Las Cruces, I always try to get out everyday and shoot photos of the area and one of the places that I’d never visited was Hueco Tanks State Park just outside of El Paso, Tx. It’s a very interesting area that has a lot of history from the Indians and their pictographs to a stop on the Butterfield Stage. It’s also become one of the premier rock climbing places in the US and you’ll see climbers doing there thing. They call it Bouldering and it’s pretty cool to watch them! They do limit the amount of people in the park everyday, so you need to make a reservation before you visit or be prepared to wait if the park is full!

Here’s are a couple of my snaps from the day spent at Hueco Tanks!!!!

I hope that you have a great week and thanks as always for taking the time to check out my work, I really do appreciate it!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning greetings from Las Cruces, New Mexico!!!

I was shooting up in Chicago last week for a new client, Lawrence Foods. We were shooting photos of a food product called “Fondant“, it’s a type of icing that’s used to decorate cakes and pastries! We had about 10 cakes that were all done up in different styles, so it was fun to see what the cake decorator had created! In these four photos, what you’re seeing is Fondant! http://kevinmay.com/kmclaw13feb12.jpg

I very much appreciate your taking the time to check out my weekly photos and I hope that you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoy sharing them!!!

Have a great week to come!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

Did you survive your Super Bowl party yesterday? I hope so!!!!

I remember growing up and always loving muscle cars from the 60’s and 70’s!!! I was fortunate to have one of these babies in the studio on Super Bowl Sunday and it was great! The guys at the Custom Shop in Flanagan, Il. have created a real beast with a totally custom and tricked out 1968 Camaro SS. Besides doing a number of incredible modifications to the body, they dropped in a monstrous LSX 376 engine with a supercharger and this puppy is putting out 800 horsepower! Not bad! The car was just out in Las Vegas at the SEMA show and this coming weekend it will be up at the Chicago Auto Show if you want to see it in person!

Here’s one of my snaps of this beautiful 68 SS Camaro!!!!!

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

Kev

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СВЕТИ ГЕОРГИMonday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!!!

I was out shooting for a new client here in Peoria last week and I got to do a little industrial photography and it’s been awhile since I’ve shot anything like this! Performance Pattern and Machine is one of those companies that you’ve probably never heard of (I sure hadn’t), but they are out there getting the job done! They make parts for some of our local Peoria companies as well as others around the US and the world! I’m always fascinated about companies like this because they are out there doing good work and you just never hear about them because they’re not a fortune 500 company! I know that we have a lot of these little companies around the US that employ a lot of people and that’s a very good thing!!!

Here’s a few of my snaps from my visit last week to PPM!

As always, thanks so much for checking out my work and I really do appreciate that!!!!

Have a great week!!!!!

Kev

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