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Photographing Chicago CTA Trains: My Obsession… and some tips & tricks for shooting.
I have been posting a great deal from my latest trip so I decided to mix things up a bit and focus on a local obsession of mine: CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) trains. When I moved to Chicago, in 1999, I didn’t have a car so it was sink or swim learning the Chicago Transit network as quickly as possible. Of course, trudging to a 9 to 5’er to spend my day in a cublicle didn’t exactly give me a fond appreciation of the “chariot” carrying me to my slow and painful daily death. However, having grown up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, riding the SEPTA system maybe twice in…
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Dogwood Photography: Nature Photographs & Tips on Photographing Flowering Trees
A blog post dedicated to beautfiul dogwood flowers and tips on how best to capture flowering trees. As much of the US experiences early Spring cold snaps and snowstorms, this blog will provide glimpses of what is to come, flowering trees.