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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Monday morning greetings from the road once again!!!!

       If it’s Monday, I must be back on the road and this week is going to be a good week!!!!!!

        I had another great shoot last Saturday with my friends from Schutt Sports and football season is in the air indeed! We shot a new cover for the catalog and had three hunky young men in the studio to model as our football players  We shot a bunch of different ideas for the cover and it will be interesting to see which one Schutt Sports goes with!

     Here’s one of my favorite snaps from the Saturday shoot!!!!!

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

     Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all,

There’s a whole world of business that we never know about or hear about unless we’re in that specific business.

I was up in LaCrosse, Wi. for a shoot with Forage Genetics and this is one of those companies that you’ve probably never heard of unless you’re in the Alfalfa business. These people are the cat’s meow when it comes to genetics and Alfalfa!!! We were able to spend the day with them and to see what all goes on at a place like this is one of the best perks of my job. There are a lot of incredibly smart people that work at FG and as I told someone that day, “There’s a lot of big thinking going on here”!!!! Maybe some of those smarts could rub off on me!!!!!!!!

We had a great shoot and here’s some of the snaps from that day!!!!!!

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

Kev

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to all!!!!

One of the things that I like to do when I’m out visiting my folks in Southern New Mexico is to get out everyday and shoot some personal photography for myself! I’m having to go a little further and further from Las Cruces to find new places and this past week I found a new one that I’ll be visiting more now that I know that it’s there. City of Rocks State Park is a very interesting place and you have to seek it out, because it’s not on the way to anywhere! In some ways it reminds me of Ayres Rock in Australia because it’s this rock formation among the grass lands where nothing else is like that.

Here’s one of my patented “stitch” shots that is comprised of 62 individual shots combined to make one giant panoramic snap!

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

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Labor Day Monday morning Las Cruces New Mexico greetings to all,

I’ve been out here visiting my folks in past years, but never gone to the Hatch Chile Festival. This time I made the trip up the road to Hatch, N.M. to check it out! The smell of roasting chiles was in the air and there were lots of people taking in the food and beverages. It’s a good time and I highly recommend it if you’re ever in Southern New Mexico for Labor Day weekend!

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

Kev

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