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
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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
On assignment in Green Lake, Wisconsin
I am glad to say that normal programing is resuming here at K. Dao Photography. My hiatus from the blogsphere has been due in part to a visit from family earlier in the… Continue reading
The raincoats of MONTANAMILAN
Nine months ago, in one of my very early posts, “Fencing and fashion shoots,” I made mention of a standing client who commissioned me for work on her boutique’s catalogue. Ms. Carmen Fredrick… 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
North by northeast and west
I wish I had more time and resources to travel. To explore the unfamiliar is a tenet of human existence. Through exploration, an individual transcends from a previous level of thought, knowledge, and experience to… Continue reading
The road to Kenowhere
In a few hours, I will once again be on the road traveling out of Illinois. Mercifully, not Ohio but rather Michigan. Traveling with me will be a contingent of my fencing buddies. … 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
Sabres to the right of them, sabres to the left of them
It relieves me after days of sheer chaos that I finally have some time to sit down with a glass of Glenfiddich and finally write of my experience over the weekend past. As… Continue reading
Korfanty countdown
UPDATE (11 May 2014): View some of THIS YEAR’S Korfanty photos via my post, “Sabres to the right of them, sabres to the left of them.” Despite the fact that the Korfanty Sabre… Continue reading
A sabre throwback
For the past two years, Chicago has had the honours of hosting the Korfanty Sabre World Cup event: in June 2012 at Navy Pier and in May 2013 at the University of… Continue reading