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Accept Your Gladness

We must risk delight. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. ~~ Jack Gilbert
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The Beauty of an Ukranian Church

Saints Volodymyr and Olha Church is a beautiful church in Chicago’s Ukranian Village.  Photographing from the choir loft, I was able to create unique compositions…
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Advanced Techniques

Daisy Daisy

For this image, I wanted to experiment with the blur effect in Photoshop.  I wanted it to look like there were streaks of energy or…
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Composition

The Calatrava

The Milwaukee Art Museum was designed by Santiago Calatrava. It is a stunning white curvy and lacy building that offers a multitude of perspectives to…

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Red Leaf Splendor

Finding a Hero for Your Composition

My intuition and imagination led me around this lake, playing tag with the sun and clouds, looking for strong leading characters and supporting secondary staging…
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Inspiration

Timelessness

As a child, I had a feeling of timelessness when I was engulfed in Nature.

Watching a sunrise on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, its sandy…

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River, Rock, and Color

Heaven or Hell? You Choose

One of my earliest childhood memories of joyfulness was taking my friends down to the corner sandlot and exploring.  In there, among the trees and the bushes…

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Musings

Majesty Squared

Majesty Doubled

Majesty Doubled, Sierra Nevada mountains near Bishop, california This photograph could have been called “Persistence”. Not the persistence of mountains, not…
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