While shooting our family Christmas card photo, I also took some time to shoot portraits of the kiddos. In a somewhat odd twist, this was really my first concerted effort to shoot portraits of my own kids. I’ve done this for other people, families, and friend’s kids…so a little odd that it’s the first time I’ve really done it for my own kids. Anyway, first up is Carson…I’ll get to Olivia in another post.
Tag: Lake County Forest Preserves
Family Portrait
Diver Family Portrait, 2012
My Christmas Card Outtakes post from a few weeks ago talked about the joys of shooting a family portrait for our Christmas card, and showed a few of the more comical outtakes I captured that day. As promised, this is the family portrait that we ended up using on our Christmas card.
Published in Horizons Magazine, Winter 2012
I am going to take a moment to promote myself, but mostly just brag…
I shot the photo above on a very hot, very muggy morning last summer at Fort Sheridan. Earlier this week, I found out that the my photo was selected to be published in the winter 2012 edition of the Lake County Forest Preserves quarterly magazine, Horizons, to accompany an article about the history of Fort Sheridan.
It may just be a local publication, but I am pretty proud regardless. You can see my photo in the latest issue of Horizons, here (pages 16 and 17).
A Screech Owl’s Story
Two weeks ago, toward the end of the Phenology & Photography workshop at Ryerson Woods, a few fellow photographers and I had the opportunity to photograph the Lake County Forest Preserves’ rescued Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio), while he was perched on the hand of an Environmental Educator.
Sunrise at Fort Sheridan
Last July, I picked myself up out of bed at 4:30am, in order to make it to Fort Sheridan and photograph the sunrise over Lake Michigan.