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Another opening, another show. Headshots for Students on Stage 39 at NCHS. Hands as frames. Go.

Say hello to Anna, Jacqui, Jake, Katelyn, Mary Kate, Jeff, and Harrison. There are many more - participating in student-written, student-directed, student-acted one acts, Feb. 2,3,4 at Normal Community High School in Normal, IL.

Late last year I also photographed the army of marketing geniuses at the Iona Group. That's Chad Udell on the left and Jim Ferolo on the right. The idea was to play with these two oversized iPhone cutouts in a simulated FaceTime environment. They actually had the blue seamless set-up in house so I just put a 60" umbrealla behind the camera and went to town with about six different people groupings. We had a blast and it was over in about 10 minutes. Had no idea it would be a cover shot but there it is... Also had eight images inside the mag. Not bad for two hours worth of work...

Thanks to Jon Wright, Managing Editor, and Michelle Gray, Art Director, and their crew over at iBi/Peoria Magazines for the assignment and to the the crew at Iona - who took a lot of good-natured ribbing the whole time.

Happy New Year everyone!

We've reached back to 2009 for this - one of the last in The Tree series (aka Tree 56) to start the year off moodily. And to restore sanity - I've placed the calendar object back where it belongs - and will leave it there for at least the next 12 months. You have to try a little every now and then to shake things up before you realize it was a bad idea.

So - at any rate - here's to a great year for you and yours. Now head over to the Central Illinois Calendar server (aka the CI Photoblog) for one of many sizes we produce for y'inz. And don't ask what y'inz means either.

On an early July morning this year, while walking around deserted Mackinac Island, I looked out over the Star Line docks before the first ferry came in. The light of sunrise delighted me.

Merry Christmas y'all.

Another image, made some 4.5 years ago on a summer gig to Chicago. Well after it was shot, I made way up to Millennium Park just before 11pm and made some images in a very light rain around the Bean.