Gosh, I haven't published anything on my blog for quite some time! I guess I've been wasting time on FB.

Here are some sunrises captured during my morning bike rides along the lakefront.

Two early morning moon sets a short time before the sunrise in September at Meditation Point a few days before a strong windstorm blew down the tree I used to frame the moon. Never think, oh I can go back and get it tomorrow or in a week. Nothing is so constant as change!

at an inner-city nature preserve in the corner of a cemetery.

Here are a series of sunrise moments with seagulls reflected in unusually quite lake.
All are copyrighted.
All were shot with a Canon s100 pocket camera I carry in a pouch - bag under my bicycle seat.
Enjoy!

I usually bike along the lakefront early in the morning. This was from mid-September, 2018.

Here is a photo from August 2 of this year (8/2/2018) of a half moon and one of many planes that pass over Meditation Point. This was shot before the sun rose. 

I haven't posted here in years, so this is sort of a test. I have included a photo. Old posts show there is/was a photo but it is not visible. The first one shows two $5 bills I discovered early one morning at the base the large blocks facing Montrose beach. The other one was shot yesterday morning, 8/28/2018 at sunrise of Montrose Harbor looking south, not east at a non-event sunrise due to storm clouds. I also a photo looking west also showing the storm cloud approaching as well the last one looking directly north with sailboats in the harbor. Hope this test is successfully posted including the photos visible.

Chicago - bean another "view"

2006-09-06 Chicago - bean 1003 lo-res
Originally uploaded by finefoto.

Found this old post in drafts from 2006

Just lying on your back in the very center and watching the changing distortions and comings and goings of people's multiple reflections is a great pastime. (I am directly dead center in the bright center on my back wearing a black turtle neck and blue jeans). On a busy weekend or holiday this can be a very highly trafficed area and I probably not be able to accomplish this. and the reflections would all be people and less shinny chrome.

Bob Seeley Boogie Woogie pianist at Piano Forte

Found this in old drafts!
Saturday, June 7, 2008 I caught Bob Seeley and Bob Baldon at a Piano Salon event at Piano Forte in the Fine Arts building at 400 S. Michigan Avenue here in Chicago. Just sheer joy! (They have since moved to around 1300 S. Michigan.

You never know who or what you will run into in front of the Bean (Cloud Gate) in millennium Park in Chicago's front yard! These very nice teenagers were from Virginia. (shot with a Canon s100)

The painted fire curtain of the Chicago Opera House. It depicts the parade scene from Aida. The interior decoration details were created by American artist Jules Guerin in a palette of salmon pinks, roses, olives, golds and bronzes. Come early to examine the interior decor and bring binoculars!

Here are a few photos of the interior of the Oriental Theater in downtown Chicago. Enjoy. Shot with a Canon s100. I shot some more a month or so later and will post them when I have time.

I happened to be over along the lakefront for a 5:56am sunrise in early September and thought you folks would enjoy seeing a photo. The gentleman who often sits on a bench facing this breakwater was there. We spoke a little bit. Don't know his story. Some day I will pause longer and learn.

Warm February walks along the lake

Yesterday, and the day before were quite warm for the end of a February -- in the high 40's and 50's!
I took two long walks along the lake from Berwyn to Inspiration Point pier and then down to dog beach at Lawrence. Today was very windy, 20 to 25mph direct from the west. A flag was straight out. A number of brave women were only in jog bras and shorts as they ran the path along the lake!

Here are some rock carvings I walked over during my ramble. If you click on any image, you are taken to a slide presentation of larger images.

Who would have thought!

Some humor, smiling over the years, in all seasons.

Up until the mid 60's you could ride horses in Lincoln Park

Buildings from 5600 North

Aztec Mexican carving in stone that has been there for at least 10 to 20 years

Not as happy as the clown carving.

The walk was a good physical and visual experience.

Bee in my eye!

During my morning bike ride along the lake, as I was going around the totem pole, I became aware of a flying black insect just to the left of my left eye. The next thing I knew was I had an excruciating pain just above my left eye. I turned to the right to get off the bike trail directly in front of the totem pole. I literally threw the bike down as I jumped off. I was cursing and at the same time feeling my eye lid in the left corner. I did not not locate a stinger, but was in great pain.  I sat down on a bench for a few minutes and then biked a short distance south to the drinking fountain and bathed my eye in the the cool water for about five minutes. When I got home I applied a cold compress of a small can of juice that proved to be quite helpful.

Joe Sterling, photographer, passes & photo philosophy

Photographer Joe Sterling died earlier this week.he was a graduate photography student at the Institute of Design when I was an under graduate in the 1960's. His thesis was about the teen age adolescent experience in the inner city of Chicago. He came from Texas and was about as tall as the state of Texas, where he came from, is large.

I going to Joe's wake and funeral with Bob Tanner and Tom Knutson, both fellow students with him at the same time period.

Stan, my interviewer has changed his plan to write about my experience walking steel during the construction of high rises in the 1970;s in Chicago to my photo documentation of the civil rights movement and anti-war movement in Chicago at the same period. I am much happier that he chose that because it represents a philosophy of art, where as walking steel not so, unless you consider it a form of zen concentration, although that is open to discussion.

Stan Getz and Zoot Sims are two of my favorite mainstream jazz saxaphonists from the 50's to the 90's. Vocalist Stacey Kent's husband, Tomilson carries on the tradition.


Zoot Sims






Stan Getz










Stacey Kent