My Single Reflex

Maybe the most photographed place in Chicago is the Studio Gang Pavilion in the nature preserve on the south end of Lincoln Park Zoo. The design is startling as one approaches it, but it really shines best in its detail. Fiberglass pods cover the bulk of the openings created by warping, bending, and bolting the wood frame. Every angle gives a unique opportunity to capture something new and fresh. This group of photos look particularly nice as abstract wall art and are among my favorite photos from my portfolio. studio gang photographs for sale

This is Jamie. She's an actress...and a chef...and a singer/songwriter...and a jokester...and a dear friend. I had the great pleasure of marrying her in Hawaii this past March. "Wait!" you say. "Were you not just waxing poetic about your wife, Brooke?" Indeed. I am married to Brooke, and I married Jamie...to Quang, her husband. You probably figured that out already...blerg. Still pretty cool to officiate a wedding in Hawaii, though!

I get to spend my life with this woman. She's fun, funny, pretty, and people love her just as much as she loves people. I don't spend too much time doing shooting people (unlike Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing), but she definitely makes it easy!

The fox (for alliteration's sake) in the foreground...my beautiful wife, Brooke. The babe in the background...my dear friend, Jamie. You may note the Studio Gang Pavilion as the setting. Yes, it's a great place for portrait sessions. Any time you visit, you'll probably see an engagement photo shoot or two going on...maybe even a wedding session. In any case, it's easy to make beautiful pictures when one has those three elements with which to work.

These photos give away the total Studio Gang Pavilion. It really seems so simple when viewed as a whole, like a kid with Legos could have come up with it, and yet the layers of wood bent in multiple directions, the resin pods, the open ends with the John Hancock building like a target viewed through a scope...it took a remarkable creative to conceive and complete it.

This reminds me of that old sci-fi horror flick about people being replaced by alien duplicates grown in pods...probably called Pod People or something like that. This photo will be the 4th for the silver frame. I've got several more, but these four seem to have a bit of symmetry.

I have this silver frame at the house that's never had anything place in the four image slots. We like the frame but I've never come up with the right four photos to place in it. This little run of Studio Gang Pavilion pictures finally helped me realize that they need to be in the frame.

This is the first photo of the Studio Gang Pavilion at Lincoln Park Zoo that I ever edited. I was still very new to a camera, and really didn't know what I was doing shooting or editing. I think this image had as much to do with me continuing to learn as any I ever took, and it's still one of my favorites.

One of many shots I've taken of the Studio Gang Pavilion at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The pavilion is extraordinary in its ability to be interesting as a whole, and as a seemingly infinite numbers of steps down to its smallest detail.