Fireworks in the park

Steve and Josie brought little Stephanie to the carnival in Shorewood last week. You just gotta love them pork chops on a stick.

They put on a pretty good fireworks show.

Chicago air and water show

One of the highlights of my summer the past few years has been the Air and Water show at North Ave. beach in Chicago. It's awesome when an F-16 roars by at 650 mph then it blows your mind when you realize that he's running at half throttle. I'm thinking about renting a super telephoto lens next year for the show.

Noreen on the edge... I mean on the Ledge

What a great day to go to Willis Tower to see the "ledge" and then have brunch at the Taste. This is the first and last time you will hear me call the Sears Tower by any other name.

The ledge creeped me out but Noreen was fine. Noreen got ink done and I almost bought a statue of a crazy man holding a knife. They were handing out samples of rock star energy drink, I typically don't like energy drinks but I did go back for seconds.We were home in time to watch the last four innings of the Cub game. One of these days we won't act like old farts and stay for the fireworks... maybe next year.

I've got some expired boat flares that I can fire up in the yard.

CUBS WIN !!!

Art Institute Modern Wing

The Art Institute of Chicago opened it's Modern Wing last week. This addition makes the Art Institute the second largest art museum in the country.
Yesterday, Paul and I took the train down to check it out.
The walkway provides more great views of the city and Millennium park.

All images were captured using my 14-24mm zoom lens (mostly 14mm).

stay off the grass

As I was cutting the grass today I came across a nest of rabbits. There were probably 5 or 6 babies that scattered to the fence line but one of them ran towards the house, we will call him "buddy". As everyone knows, when a baby rabbit runs towards the house it only means one thing......

he wants to pose for me.

The challenge in posing Buddy was the fact that my Honda severed his lower half. I used my 105mm macro lens on my D3.

Just kidding, no lucky rabbits feet were lost in this shoot.

Starved Rock State Park

I took a drive to Starved Rock State Park today to try out my 14-24mm wide angle zoom lens. LaSalle canyon is also one of my favorites in the winter. The Illinois river is still well over flood stage.