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Photo-grapher

This is quite a bit delayed but oh well. Fellow PJ Dijana Muminovic had her work up in the gallery here at school and I had to shoot a portrait of her for the paper. Her photos were amazing and it got a great response from the community she said, which is what we are always striving for. Congrats Dijana!


Micah

I don't have a really cool New Years post, but I put together some of my favorite images from the time I spent with local band Micah. Have a look, tell me what ya think, but please.... enjoy! These guys were a blast to hang out with gracious enough to let me take way to many photos of them, so thank you Jacquelyn, Joe, Garrett and Darrick, best of luck to you all in the coming year.



Check out their website HERE.

Time in the Field



Jordan and I spent Monday walking around the Field Museum in Chicago with her Sister's family. It had been quite awhile since I had been to the Field, so it was cool see it again- especially with Jordan's niece and nephew. They gave me an excuse to act like I was 5 again..... big change, I know.



Here Comes Santa Claus

A few more from Santa Rampage in Nashville.

Santa at the Beer Sellar
The Man, The Legend - Mr. Travis "Kringle" Garner

"I'll show you some Christmas spirit."

Santa Does Nashville.

Nashville had it annual Santa Rampage on the 12th...... 200 or so Santa's hit as many bars in Nashville as possible in one night.... who could miss it? Fellow photographer Travis Garner and I went down there to butter up Santa before his big day comes....




Santa Baby

I shot a freelance gig for the Aurora Beacon-News yesterday at Rush-Copley Medical Center. Most of the babies in the NeoNatal ICU will be spending their first Christmas in the hospital so, one of the doctors dressed up as Mr. Claus and delivered presents to them and their families.
Check out the story HERE.

Open Season

I spent some time over in Eastern Kentucky last weekend to check out the first Black bear hunt in over 100 years in the bluegrass. Unfortunately, er, well fortunately for the bears I guess, Saturday was a bust and no bears were had. It was a good trip anyway though, saw my first snow of the season, met some cool people and made some fun photos..... Good day in my book.






The end of India as we know it.

That's right, this is, I think, the last of the India photos. Some random shots of how we got around while we were over there. Mostly buses that I was amazed made it anywhere on those crowded streets.


This is a light traffic day. It was taken from a Rickshaw or Tuk Tuk as they are called because of the sound their small diesel engine makes. They are basically a glorified lawnmower with a canopy. Seating for 3, but we managed 5 and I saw them packed with many more. Akin to taxi's here in the States they put Chicago taxi drivers to shame with how crazy and aggressive they drive.

Podcast specialist Stacie Hewitt inside a Tuk Tuk.

Yours Truly.

Peace out Mr. Danny Dressler.

Conference Call

Finally getting down to the end of the India photos, so more stateside stuff to come. These are all shots that were intended to go up on the IFRA blog but never made it so I am posting them here.




Frosty

It is finally starting to get a bit nippy here in the Bluegrass state. Far from what I hear being grumbled by those back home (Chicago), but if you talk to locals here you'd think the world stops moving at 30 degrees.
I figured we'd take a break from warm and sunny India (it was 75 on Dec. 1 btw) and revisit good ol' BG,KY.

As a preview for next week... Merry Christmas
And its not quite snow, but I have woken up to a frost covered truck the past few days and snapped a few while it was warming up/defrosting.




Not sure how many times I will be seeing this building again. Mass Media and Technology Hall- home of WKU PJ.

Market Days

On our last day in Hyderabad we finally had some time to wander the town a bit. A small group of us headed over to a what I think was the Indian version of a flea market and did some Christmas shopping.


This was the little restaurant that was there. They had glass bottle Coke aka heaven. Regina Durkan was one of our two man video team that I am sure pulled more than one all nighter on the trip.

Hail Mary from a plane window.

Bigger photos, Whoo!

...And a redesign! (Sorry Julie) I think I figured out how to post bigger photos on the main page, so from now on you will get nice, big, and hopefully pretty photos right on the front page! No clicking to see them bigger. Whoo!

Colors in Detail

I found some fun little shots that were.... well...... just that, fun little shots. I don't have a lot so say, so here ya go. Enjoy!




This ones for you Dad.

Chowmahalla palace

One of the banquets that we went to was at the 200 year old Chowmahalla palace. It is actually a 4 palaces hence "Chow" which means 4 and "Mahalat" which means palaces (thanks Wikipedia). The first frame is from the drive there through the city of Hyderabad. I was tempted to ask the driver to stop and let me out, but that idea got shot down rather quickly.


The main palace.

I couldn't decide between these next two.... any thoughts?


This was one of the first times on the trip I had to really just kinda shoot whatever and not have to worry about shooting anyone special so I just had some fun with it. There sure was no shortage of photographic eye candy.

Building India

The buildings in India had so much more texture to them than they do here. That fake weathered look that we try to create with some of our structures pales in comparison to the character that is the walls of their buildings.

This was on the drive from the airport to our hotel the first day. I am amazed it is even sharp being shot from a moving car with such little light.
There were men's hostel's everywhere. This one happened to be right next to our hotel.

Pretty light.

Look at that... more pretty light!

Guess what! .....I think you get the picture.