Weekend zen
Life is about balance. From the physiological process of homeostasis to emotional and mental stability, balance is a necessity to a human being. That is why the weekend before last, despite being in… Continue reading
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Twenty six point two
I prefer individual sports over team sports. This is due in part to my own maverick personality. To that, however, I also hold much higher respect to the human spirit and qualities of… Continue reading
Eclipse of the Republic
On 30 October 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition (or The Chicago World’s Fair) closed after a six month celebration of Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the New World 400 years before (401 years, actually,… Continue reading
Only human
After a five month hiatus, I finally returned to the fencing scene this weekend photographing the two-day Remenyik Regional Open Circuit tournament at Northwestern University. Although the new fencing season began months ago,… Continue reading
The Great Chicago Fire and the not-so-great festival
It has been nearly a fortnight since my thirty-first birthday. I am still mentally absorbing the impact of growing older, though, as I balance out the negatives and the positives. Fortunately, the balance… Continue reading
Summer reflections
While I had known fully for some time now that autumn is upon us in Chicago, it did not hit me fully until yesterday afternoon. As I walked around Grant Park downtown with… Continue reading
A tale of two music festivals
My musical taste is a bit eclectic. The artists in my iTunes library range from Amy Winehouse to Ludwig van Beethoven to Garbage to The Dubliners to Katy Perry to The Rolling Stones. … Continue reading
Living legend
The past week has been a rather productive and inspirational one photographically, despite the fact that I did not pick up an actual camera until the weekend itself. I am glad to say… Continue reading
Failure is not an option
One does not simply photograph the moon. It is rather not uncommon to see throughout social media a plethora of grainy images showing a small white dot in a darken sky with a… Continue reading
By land and by sea
The month of July seemed to have flew by like a bat out hell for me (sans a fiery motorcycle crash). The combination of the many things I had mentioned in the previous… Continue reading
Scènes à faire
Someone once asked me if I ever get tired of photographing around downtown Chicago. “Never,” I quickly responded. Chicago, or any large city for that matter, is like going to a theater showing… Continue reading
Themes out of randomness
Although street photography is often wrought out of spontaneity and randomness, there is usually some theme of sorts that ties the frames together from a day out shooting. I wish I can declare a more… Continue reading
Knowing no fear
Once again, I have found myself a predicament all too common to myself. I have been spending much more time out and about photographing than sitting at my desk and processing the resulting… Continue reading
Of portraits and steak
I was back out “on assignment” again this weekend. Instead of my usual stomping grounds of a gymnasium filled with the sounds of epee blades clashing and fencers screaming, I found myself on… Continue reading
The hipster wilderness and a ghost of fencing past
As I had written in my last post, “Sabres to the right of them, sabres to the left of them,” shooting the 2014 Korfanty Sabre World Cup two weekends ago was on of… Continue reading