Monday Peoria greetings to all,

For all my American friends, I hope that you had a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving this past weekend!!!!

A couple of weeks ago, I got to try something in photography that I’ve always wanted to do, Time-lapse photography. It’s really pretty simple; you just put the camera on a tripod and lock it down into one position. You then set the timer and in this case I had the camera shoot a photo every 12 seconds for over three hours as the sun was going down!!! Then, it’s a matter of just assembling in the computer and you’re all set.

If you would like to see the three-hour shoot compressed down to 35 seconds, click on this Youtube link and enjoy!!!

Thanks as always for checking out my work and have an outstanding week!!!!!

Kev

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Rainy Peoria Thanksgiving greetings to all!!!!!

I don’t need a day like today to think about how thankful and blessed that I am, because I think about it everyday! As most of you know, I love what I do and I have all of my wonderful clients that support me to thank for allowing me to do what I love doing. I’m also very blessed to have a great family and friends that keep me going as well!

After finishing up with a little work here at the studio today from the last road trip out West, I’ll be enjoying the rest of the afternoon and evening at home enjoying some great food and football! Not a bad way to spend the day!!!!

I hope that you have (or had) a wonderful Thanksgiving and the rest of the year is a very good one as well!

Safe travels and happy trails to all!!!!!!!

Kev

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Rainy Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

I can’t tell you how good it is to be back home in Peoria!!!  I’ve been on the road for the past three weeks on different shoots, so it’s going to be very nice sleeping in my own bed for awhile!!!!

After shooting in Tucson a week ago,  I was able to hit a couple of favorite spots on the way home to shoot some nature photography.  As always shooting out West is very special to me and a few of these places are very spiritual and I can can see why the Indians held them in such high reverence!  Monument Valley, Arizona is one of those special places for me.  I’ve been there a number of times shooting and it’s always different every time.  I see new things shooting at different times of the day and shots like the one I’m sending along are new ones for me.

For my friends in the US,  this week is Thanksgiving,  so I hope that if you are traveling for the holiday,  you have a very safe and wonderful time!

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

Safe travels!!!!!!

    Kev

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Monday morning greetings to all!!!!!!!!

I had the pleasure of shooting a new poster for my alma mater Bradley University’s mens basketball team and this was a fun shoot! They had the team come out to my studio a month ago and I have to tell you that this is one very nice group of young men! The university should be very proud of these young men because they have great manners and I thought that maybe that was something that was long gone with today’s young people (doesn’t that make me sound like a crotchety old man?).

The guys had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs! We shot a variety of shots from then being tough to them being completely silly and goofing and having fun! Here’s the shot that was picked for the poster and I have to thank Mark Burdess from Burdess and Associates for putting this poster together as he always does and he never disappoints!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all,

I was up in Wisconsin last week shooting some harvesting and it’s always fun watching the farmers get their crops out of the field! Here in Central Illinois, the farmers have had a very good year with good weather and timely rains. It was dry in September and October and they were getting the crops out of the fields earlier then last year with all the rain in the fall. This year was a piece of cake!!!! The farming photography has pretty much wrapped up for this year and we’ll get back it again next year with planting season starting next spring!

Here’s a couple of snaps from this past week and as you can see, the good weather was still cooperating and the corn was looking real good!

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

Kev

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Monday morning greetings to all!!!!!

One of the things that I love shooting is football and when I was a student at Bradley University, I thought I wanted to work for Sports Illustrated. After a few twists and turns, I found commercial photography and have been very happy shooting that all these years! I do have to get out every once and again and scratch that sports itch and this past Saturday was a perfect day to do that!

Peoria Richwoods High School was taking on The Ottawa Pirates in the first round of the IHSA Football Class 5A playoffs. I was able to get a number of great snaps and here are three from Saturday’s game!!!!

Thanks as always for checking out my work and I’m hoping that you’re going to have a great week to come!!!!!!!!

Kev

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ъглови леглаMonday Peoria greetings to all!

I was up in Iowa and Wisconsin shooting last week and snagged this snap of Bellevue, Iowa and the Mississippi River. The colors of autumn this year in the Midwest have been a little disappointing, but sometimes that’s the case and this year is just one of those years!!! We’ve seen the leaves turning and the colors have been very muted compared to years gone by. As you know, I really love intense and vibrant colors and to not have that this year is a downer!!!!!! Oh well, maybe next year!!!!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday morning greetings to all!

Here in Central Illinois, we all know that the good days of fall are slipping away and the winter months are just down the road!!!!! We’ve got to take advantage of the nice weather and that’s exactly what I did last Friday afternoon. I hadn’t been out to Tanners Orchard in a few years and it was a sunny day and the temps were in the low 70’s, so it was a perfect day to get out and enjoy the nice weather!!!!! If you’re not here in the Peoria area, I’m sure that you’ve got a local orchard like Tanners and it’s indeed one of the best places in the fall season! You can smell all the goodies in the bakery and the cider is flowing and the Cider Doughnuts are to die for!!!!!!

If you haven’t had the chance to get out and check it out, this week could be the perfect one to do so!!!! Here are some of my snaps from the day and you can see that with the sun and blue skies, I was in hog heaven!!!!!!

Thanks as always for checking out my work and seeing what wacky adventures that I’ve been up too!!!!! I hope that you have a great week as always!!!!!

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

I’m rocking and rolling as always and I’ve put together a slideshow with some of my images from my trip to Ireland a week ago. You’ll see the first part of the slideshow are images from the trip up to Belfast from Dublin and then the rest of the slideshow are from a day and a half walking around Dublin. Getting to spend a little time here really makes me want to visit again at some point in the future and I know that I will!

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

Kev

Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!

I just flew in from Dublin last night and man are my arms tired!!! Sure it’s a bad joke, but what the heck!

I was over in Dublin last week for a quick gig and I sure had a great time there! The people were very nice and the Guinness was like mothers milk! !!!! I snagged this snap in Dublin on Friday night and the whole day was pretty darn perfect. The sun was out most of the day and the city sure takes on a different feel then when it’s gray and rainy. Here’s my snap of the Samuel Beckett Bridge along the river Liffey and the riverfront of the city.

Breaking even!!! Man, that is a very wonderful feeling. To make a long story short, last year (2009) the goal was to break even as a business. I was able to do it, but it came down to December and a last minute job. This year (2010) the goal has been once again to break even and I’m happy to report that it happened at the first of October! Trust me, the economy still isn’t out of the doldrums yet, but I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! There are still too many people out of work and the recovery isn’t happening fast enough for those people! My heart goes out to them!!!!!!

OK, the goal next year is to break even and hopefully it will happen before October! I’ll let you know!!!!!! Thanks to all of my wonderful clients that made this happen for me, I sure am very appreciative of it!!!!!!!

Have a great week and it’s time for me to get on another plane this morning and head to Atlanta for a quick one day shoot!

Kev

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