Root Beer

I love history, and when I see something like this it makes me feel good to have found it. They could have easily just covered the sign with that siding. Its great that they took the time to cut the siding preserving that sign means something, its one of the rare things you see these days....

Tractor

This one is from on of the last rolls from when I was down south last year. I believe this was in some town which I can't remember the name of that I stopped on my way back to St Louis. I remember there was a small fire behind that fence which was probably pretty typical in that neck of the woods. I love all the green with the red accents is what attracted me to making this image and that smoke in the background adds to it...

Rock Abstract

I dug a little bit deeper in the archive to find this image. Its from a few years ago I think I was on a beach that had a whole bunch of rocks. It really feels like a cave relief sculpture. Love all the subtle colors, textures, and forms that come in and out the the rocks from light to dark. Its probably one of my fav abstracts I've done in awhile...

Christmas Trees

I was walking around a freezing my ass off trying to make some images on a beach in Rogers Park. I found this image to be kinda odd can't say I've ever seen people do something like this before....why?

Tailor Shop

I can't remember when I took this image exactly probably around 2004 in the summer. This was one of the last remaining buildings on the Old Maxwell Street flea market. I won't go into the history of the place lets just say it was around for a very long time. A historic place that UIC decided to buy up all the land and to expand their campus. Whenever I've seen color photos from Maxwell Street back in the day the colors were always just gaudy and taken in bad light. I've alway known Maxwell Street in B&W it just always felt right. On this day I drove by later in the afternoon around 3 or 4pm and I happened to have color film in the camera so I was like hell, why not light was great nice and warm, so I made a few images this one of the the ones I liked. I remember going inside the tailor shop one time and met by these 2 older men that were just so paranoid like the Nazi's were going in to get them and would not let me photograph at all. The guy sitting in front of the building was there if I remember correctly was to take care and feed some cats there were living there. I don't think he was living there at the time maybe he was, but all those 2 buidlings were really close to being demolished. These homeless guys would back into these places just for a place to sleep. This area if you go there now does not look anything close to what it used to be and its a shame really. History down the tubes at least we have the photographs......

Reds, Clarksdale, MS

I remember the first time I drove past this place, it was in the evening when I first pulled into town. I was you have got to be kidding me! This was an almost, wait is was surreal scene! They sure love their BBQ and smokers, I saw a lot of these types of things in front of restaurants, clubs, by houses....