Chicago’s finest and the yellow wall

Two weeks ago I participated in the Monte Zucker How to Photograph Everyone tour with Clay Blackmore in Chicago.  The class consisted of a 4 hour lecture on Monday night and then an all day Master Class at Calumet on Tuesday.  I was only 2 minutes into the lecture when I was overwhelmed by that [...]

Fire on the Brown Line… and Bagels

This post is a week overdue.  My apologies.  The fire threw me off.  Keep reading. Last week Tami and I went to Beans and Bagels on Montrose for our weekly writing workshop.  Tami had heard rave reviews about this one and we were excited to try it out.  The coffee was great (Metropolis coffee again), [...]