Taken with my iPhone.
"Exploring Q'enqo" Emily, Katie and I were the first of our group to arrive in Peru. While waiting for our fellow trekkers we opted to take a day hike near Cusco to warm up our hiking muscles and acclimatize our sea level lungs. The three of us along with Danelle, our new friend, loaded into [...]
Today is my home town's 175th birthday! Chicago has served as a backdrop to so many of my photographs over the years, from the parks to the skyline to the blue waters of Lake Michigan. Below is a little tribute to the Windy City - 175 years beautiful!
I love my iPhone - as an artist, a business owner and a traveler, it's the perfect accessory and I don't know what I did without it. With that said, the whole Instagram generation of photographers kind of cracks me up. "Here's a cup of coffee. It's cooler than yours because I cropped it to [...]
"Katie in the Clouds" When I think of adventure, I think of Katie. Together we have summited mountains, trekked to wonders of the world, spoken in airport code, recovered lost luggage, deduced Holmes, smuggled apples and translated bus schedules. When in South America we spoke in tandem Spanish - I am better at understanding and [...]
I moved into my current apartment in October of 2010 and felt immediately at home. My place is charming (read: old) but it is full of character and large windows and a creaky, hardwood floor. It's pretty large for a studio with separate living and dining areas (though the "dining area" is being used as [...]
As promised, below are several more images from the Fire and Water Show that was held at our resort during my recent trip to Mexico. It was a pretty intense show. At the end of the show they introduced each performer including "Kara from Chicago, IL." Of course we had to seek out this Kara [...]
"Acacia at Sunset" What with my story being featured on Bucket List Publications and my revamping of the VICDA website, I've been missing Kenya a lot lately. This photograph was taken during my first trip to Kenya in 2006. I was on safari at Amboseli National Park and became obsessed with this gorgeous acacia tree [...]
Jenn Winter 