Monday morning Albuquerque greetings to all!

I was rocking and rolling down in Texas last week on a number of shoots and was able to grab a quick moment to get a couple of personal shots for me!  The Alamo is down in San Antonio and it’s one of those spots that has a ton of history and is worth checking out if you’re every down that way!!!!!!  Here’s one of my snaps from that night and it’s a minor miracle that I didn’t have anyone posing in this shot!!!!!  SOMETIMES YOU JUST GET LUCKY!!!!!!!   

Things are starting to heat up on the work front and that’s a great feeling after having a couple of down years!!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday Texas greetings to all!!!!

First and foremost, my thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Japan and this incredible tragedy of the past week! By no means is this all over and it’s going to be a very long process to rebuild the country and the people!!!!

I had a fun little shoot this past week for my friends at Green Chevrolet!
They brought seven cars and trucks into the studio for a quick two day shoot and I was able to do a nice little time lapse of entire process and what it took to shoot all of this!!!!! Here’s a great piece compressing the 15 hours down to two minutes!!!!!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all,

One of the fun and most challenging things that I have to do as a photographer is to make an interesting photo from something that might not seem all that interesting as a subject. My friends at Simformotion have come up with some new controllers for their motion simulators and brought them to the studio last week. After shooting some standard shots of the controllers, they wanted something a little more edgy, so I had to come up with something that made them look cool. A couple of ways that I can do this is through lighting and also selective focus of the camera. For these three controllers, I zoomed in on the handles and was able to add a little mood lighting and we were all good to go! Here’s a nice sample of the effect I got for these shots.

It’s always very gratifying to come away with something that you like and the client likes as well!!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Illinois greetings to all!!!!

I have always love anything that has an engine, so you can imagine how much I love seeing a tractor with four engines in my studio last week!!!!! My friends at LG Seeds have sponsored Bret Berg and his “Moneymaker” tractor in the NTPA. If you’re not from the Midwest, you probably don’t know what a tractor pull is, but it doesn’t get more Americana then guys seeing how far their tractors can pull a weighted sled. The thing that I loved about seeing this tractor was the four engines that power this bad boy. I asked Bret what the horsepower was that these engines were putting out and he said they were putting out 2200 horsepower per engine on the dyno!!! That’s 8800 horsepower on this tractor and that’s a lot of giddy up in my book!!!!

Here’s a couple of photos from the day and the first shot is one of Bret’s tractor in the studio and the second shot is one of Bret and I and his Moneymaker tractor!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!

Last week I got an Iphone! I had to wait three years to get one and you’re probably thinking why did I wait so long? When Apple first announced that they were making a phone three and a half years ago, I wanted one and I wanted it bad! At the time they granted exclusive rights to AT&T and if you wanted one, you had to switch to AT&T for your cell service. Having been on enough shoots outside of the big cities (that’s rural America folks) and seeing how clients and art directors didn’t have any service, that sealed the deal for me. I knew that I would have to wait and wait I did until Apple’s exclusive deal with AT&T ran it’s three year contract.

So my long wait finally is over and last week I got my Iphone from Verizon and I have to tell you I’m loving it! So far so good and the phone works like a champ! I was so happy that I had to shoot a shot of it and here it is.

It’s time to get busy and get to work!!!! I hope that you have an outstanding week as always and thanks again for checking out my stuff!!!!

Kev

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Sunny Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

I was able to swing by Santa Fe NM. for a quick visit on the way out to see my folks and as always, it’s a wonderful time walking around the downtown area and seeing everything that’s going on! If you’re looking to shop and spend a couple of bucks, this is the place!!!!! I’ll have to get back there when I’ve got a little more time and can really explore the city!!!!

Here’s some of my snaps from a few hours in Santa Fe!

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

Kev

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Sunny Monday morning greetings from Las Cruces, NM.!

You would think that by coming down here to see my folks this past week that I would have avoided some of the cold snowy weather that everyone was getting back in the Midwest. Wrong! The temps were supposed to be in the 60 degree range (and they were before I got there) and unfortunately they ended up having some of the coldest temps in their history. Having the high is the 20 degree range and the lows below zero wasn’t the type of weather that I ordered for my visit!!!!!

The other thing that Las Cruces got this past week was a very rare snow storm. 2.5 inches to be precise and in the six years that my folks have lived here, they maybe have had snow in the city 3 or 4 times, so it’s rare indeed!!!!

Even though I’m not all that wild about shooting in cold weather, I had to take advantage of the snow and get a few snaps! Here’s one of my snaps of the Organ Mountains with a fresh dusting of snow and it sure was special to see!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday morning greetings to one and all!!!!

I’ve had a few of my photography buddies getting out and shooting photos of the Bald Eagles along the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and for me personally, anything involving cold weather and photography probably isn’t the best combination!!! I thought I would give it the old college try and I got up to the Quad Cities (Iowa / Illinois) last weekend and tried to snag a couple of shots of the Bald Eagles along the Mississippi River.

It sure wasn’t a perfect blue sky day with lots of sun, so when given lemons, you make lemonade! The Bald Eagles are amazing and the first thing that you take from seeing them is just how darn big they are!!!! Here’s one of my snaps of these amazing birds in action!

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

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Cloudy Monday morning greetings to all!

One of the hardest things that I have to do is shooting outside in the winter time! For me to get those great “Kevin May Blue”© sky days, I have to shoot when it’s bitterly cold because the clouds are all gone. Last week was no exception! I got a call from the very nice folks at Watchfire Signs in Danville, Il. and they had just finished making a brand new sign for the Par-A-Dice Hotel and Casino here in East Peoria. They wanted to get some nice snaps of their sign in action. Here’s a couple from the day and at night and I can tell you that this puppy is bright!!!!!!!

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

Kev

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MLK Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

This week is one of those weeks that I just dread! The temps in Peoria for the highs will be in the mid teens and that’s never a good thing in my opinion! If there’s one good thing so far it’s that I don’t have a shoot outside this week and I’m not complaining!

I guess we’ll all just have to stay bundled up and inside this week like Maria was doing in this weeks snap!!!!

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

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