Tomorrow is the big day, and guess what? In little over two hours will be considered as “tomorrow” I am starting my move into my Wicker Park studio at the historic Flat Iron Arts Building. The building is celebrating its...
Teachers of Chicago
The dispute between Chicago Teachers Union CTU and the new mayor of the city Rahm Emanuel is not getting any better. As I know one can not make everyone happy, I am a strong supporter of Unions but let’s not...
Ice Society Educational Discount for CPS members by Jerry Ghionis
The Ice Society is a subscription-based photography educational website created by world renowned photographer Jerry Ghionis dedicated to empowering fellow professionals and enthusiasts to take their photography and business to new heights. A new chapter is added every month with...
Published on Leica-Blog. I am on Cloud 9
I am on Cloud 9 today. A while back I was interviewed for Leica Camera’s blog. Today is a wonderful day as an interview about me, wedding photography, street photography and Chicago Photographic Society was published on one of the...
Celestial Lights Caught On Camera
This is a wonderful video of earth and space. I remember back in the day when I lived in Minnesota I was fortunate enough to witness similar dances of light in the sky but of course not in this scale....
Photos from the 2013 Chicago Auto Show!!!
Our friend Christopher Foltz was privileged to photograph the Auto Show before they open the doors to the public. The photos he took made me want to go, I am sure it will have the same effect on you guys...
Flickr vs. 500px
I have been on Flickr since 2008, recently upgraded to Pro account. No doubt that Flickr has an advantage on the community it hosts, so many groups, great people. But Yahoo really treated Flickr like an orphan, everyone knows and...
Great News For Street Photographers
What a great day for great news! As you already know that at Chicago Photographic Society, we are running an International Street Photography contest where every dime of entry fees are spent for the prizes, 12 winners get a month...
Champions Of Photography and The Future Photographers Project
I have no idea how long (or short this post will be) so bear with me. After half a dozen tries, here we go: I am beyond honored to get calls, emails text messages, Facebook messages from photographers when they...
November 2012 Spotlight Meeting Highlights
Since our first meeting in August, every Spotlight has been success, full house! Last night was not different. We had a great topic, great speaker, great venue to host our meetings and much more. When Andres came to my...