The sun sets over the Riggin Barn on E. Riggin Road in Muncie, Ind., after severe thunderstorms inundated the area, Sunday, November 17, 2013. The outbreak of unseasonable thunderstorms spawned several tornados throughout the state of Indiana, including one in nearby Kokomo.
On the eve of my birthday (or “Guy Eve” as the day has become colloquially known in my inner circles), my mother was kind enough to bake me a birthday cake (a day early, since I’ll be spending my actual birthday jetting across the country for lighting work). The finished cake, sitting proudly on the kitchen table, was topped with two candles in the shape of a three and two. 3-2. Thirty-two.
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Half marathon runner Emily Dalton of Chicago, Ill., warms up with jumping jacks prior to the first annual Dawn of the Dunes Marathon held at Marquette Park in Gary, Ind., Sunday, October 27, 2013. The marathon, the first in the city’s history, began at Marquette Park Pavilion and took runners through the park and surrounding Miller neighborhood.
In an era of steadily declining freelance news photography work, it’s nice to end up with an assignment that covers something of a historic nature
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The Aurora Borealis luminesce in the sky over Lake Michigan near the lighthouse at St. Joseph, Mich., Tuesday, October 8, 2013. Aircraft and boats traveling through the frame during this 20 second exposure are seen as streaks of light. (Other tech specs: ISO 2000 @
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, flight 4820 en route from Washington, D.C., to Chicago Midway Airport, flies in front of the full moon over East Chicago, Ind., Tuesday, August 20, 2013. (The full burst of images shot in the camera are presented here as a sequence.)
I have a mounting debt of gratitude towards digital image capture. While I learned and shot primarily on the more romantic 35mm film format throughout my teenage years, digital photography took the steep learning curve of the photography art form and squashed it. Immediate feedback on the camera’s LCD screen with what I was doing right – and wrong – made me a much better photographer, and more quickly than waiting on film at the lab.
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