Hot Peoria Monday morning greetings to all!

I was in Sioux City, Iowa last week shooting photos for a new Stoney Creek hotel and I had a new challenge and it was a bit tough. The client wanted to get a shot of the presidential suite and wanted to show the size of the room. She asked if I could do one of my patented “stitch” shots (a series of photos that the computer assembles to make one large panoramic shot) and after thinking about it, I gave it a try. The challenge for me is that I’m normally doing these “stitch” shots outside or in a room at night that’s already “lit”. The other challenge was the fact that I only had four lights to supplement the lighting already there!

Here’s my snap and I’m pretty darn happy with it!

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

Kev

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Sunny Omaha Monday morning greetings to all!

I’ve been on a real tear for the last two and a half months with work and that’s been great! One of the things that I haven’t had time to do since early May is get out and shoot some shots for myself! It’s something that helps recharge my creativity and keeps me going! I’ve got a shoot this week in Souix City, Ia. at a new Stoney Creek hotel that’s just opened and I decided to leave a day early and shoot some stuff for me!

Here’s my shot of the city of Omaha, Ne. and they’ve got this very cool pedestrian bridge that leads from Omaha across the Missouri River to Council Bluffs, Ia. The Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge snakes across the river in an “S” shape!
Thanks as always and have a great week!!!

Kev

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Sunny Peoria Monday morning greetings to all!

How’s this for a story, you’re a retired school teacher and you decide to ride a bicycle 3415 miles across the USA in 47 days. Sounds crazy doesn’t it! Washington, Il. resident (and friend) Champ Walker did this and I’m still amazed at what he was able to do. Here’s a link for the blog that Champ keep during his ride along with photos if you’d like to see what it was all about! http://walkerride.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html

A buddy and I teamed up on a photo of Champ and here’s one of the snaps from the shoot that I really liked!

Time to roll, it’s going to be a very busy week!!!! Thanks as always for checking out my work and I hope that you have a wonderful week!!!!

Kev

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Sunny Peoria Monday afternoon greetings to all,

One of the things that I’ve been working on this year is having images of mine on line that can be purchased for stock or prints as well. The first part is looking though all of these images (75 plus Terabytes) and it’s been daunting, but it’s coming along. At some point, I should have the first gallery of images up and those will be images of Peoria (that’s what I currently sell the most of).

Thanks as always and I hope that you have a great week!!!!

Kev

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Sunny Peoria Monday morning greetings to all!

I hope that you had a safe and wonderful 4th of July weekend and got to see some fireworks!

I was over in Bloomington, Il. last week for a shoot for Midwestern Family Magazine and we were doing a little food photography at the Vrooman Mansion. Chef Steven Sparrow was teaching a cooking class on New Orleans / Cajun cooking and as part of the class, the students get to eat the Chef’s different dishes from the evening!

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

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Sunny cool Peoria Monday morning greetings to all!

It’s great to be back home and also in town for a few weeks before heading out once again! I was up in Wisconsin and Minnesota the past few weeks shooting some farming stuff and it was darn hot! On Tuesday this past week, I had about 10 quarts of Gatorade during the course of the day and never hit the bathroom once! That’s a lot of sweat!!!!!! Here’s one of my favorite shots from the shoots and as you can see, we had a great evening to shoot!

Have a very safe 4th of July weekend (for my U.S. friends) next weekend and I’ll see you all next Monday!

Kev

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Cloudy Monday morning greetings from Benson, Mn.!

It was a whirlwind week last week with a shoot in Dale, Wi. all week and then a drive back to Peoria on Friday night and a charity gig for Easter Seals on Saturday night and then a nine plus hour drive to Benson, Mn. on Sunday! I need a nap!

Easter Seals had their annual “Wines on the prairie” charity event this past Saturday night at Weaver Farms in Peoria. As you can see from my snaps, it’s a pretty nice party and it’s all for a very good cause! I heard that they had record attendance and in this economy, that’s amazing!!!! Here’s a few of my snaps from the evening!

It’s time to get to work, so I hope that you have a great week as always!!!

Kev

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Sunny Monday morning Dale, Wi. greetings to all,

I’m up here in Dale,Wi. shooting some more farming stuff this week, so that should be a lot of fun! The weather is supposed to be perfect, so we’re going to get busy and get a lot done!

Here’s a quick shot from another farming shoot that I did last week and this was one of my favorite shots of the farmer out in the soybean field with the grain bins in the background!

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

Kev

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Rainy Monday morning Moline greetings to all,

I’m up here in the Quad Cities shooting at the Stoney Creek Inn (http://www.stoneycreekinn.com/) and it’s a pretty darn nice place with a little of that Northwoods lodge feeling. For those of in the Midwest (including Peoria), we are fortunate to have to have a few of these in our area! Here’s a quick snap of the lobby that we got last night!

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

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Cloudy Monday morning greetings to all,

We’ve been working in the studio the past couple of weeks shooting food photography and we’ve got one more week to go! I’ll hopefully be able to share some of the “Stop Motion” commercials that we’ve been working on and they are turning out great!

Here’s a quick snap from Beale St. in Memphis, Tn from Memorial Day weekend and it’s a little bit rock and roll.

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

Kev

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