My Single Reflex

we've all heard it said that perspective can make the same thing look entirely not the same. it's not hard to test that. from politics to pics, where you stand can make apples look like apples and oranges...or apples and penguins. take this fence, for example. ordinary chain link fence, to be sure, but if i'd not taken this photo, i'm not sure i'd know what it was. even knowing, it's hard to look at it and sort of mentally swing myself 90 degrees counter-clockwise to see the chain link fence we all know and love. i enjoy finding different perspectives, in pretty much anything. if i ever think that i've landed on the sole reality of a situation, it's a sure sign i'm leaving some point of view out of the picture. reality is not 2D. it's 3D and made up of millions of points from which to see it. it's a good part of why i remind myself often that part of what God requires of me is to walk humbly. no matter how much i try, or how much i think...

Chicago or Gotham?

Chicago...you were magnificent today, but God's skyline...and waterline...still win.

how to leave city life behind...while in the city.

desaturated version of the salmon fishermen

the black and white version brings out the shadows

it feels even longer with no color

this is gonna be a long walk...

there are some beautiful views on Chicago's south side lakefront. be it the lake, the city, or these little flowers...it's my favorite place to snap a few dozen pics.

my ancient chairs rest askew against my garage.

Checker headlights

ahhhh...church in the tropics. why don't we all live there? well, not in church....in the tropics.

roosters roam everywhere on Key West. they're in low-income neighborhoods and the parking lots of 5-star hotels. they strut down the main drag, and hide on porches on side streets. and they're all so very colorful. reds, yellows, teals, greens, blacks, blues...you can find all sorts of colors on different ones, and some have almost all of them.

my wife...a little overexposed on the Naples pier. seriously, i played with this shot for half an hour and even when the exposure was so high that only her eyes showed up she was still stunning!

my wife. :-) this was the view off our balcony in our Key West hotel room. well, my view. she didn't see herself in the frame... :-)

we were getting ready to leave Key West, so i walked to get the car (a little further than Brooke or I realized). while walking i passed this house and snapped a couple of pics.

sooooo white!

awaiting their students