I took my first serious portraits last Sunday at the Prop Theatre. These are “head shots” of the performers for Beast Womens summer series.
All in all, some of them aren’t too bad. I’m fairly pleased with a couple. Lessons learned include this Induro tripod isn’t improving with age (strap snapped off), the new Gitzo [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Portraits at the Prop
Thursday, July 30, 2009
You can smell the photosynthesis
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The previous post was of a performance I found while trying to get to a different church in Lemont thats quite visible from the bridge. I found it, but there’s a house close by with just a massive amount of beautiful flowers and plants. Someone has a very green thumb.
The whole set is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/huntermatthews/sets/72157621786791068
Pictures [...]
So patriotic I almost can't stand it.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Church, kids singing, people on lawn chairs listening, young kids running around, babies crawling through green grass and an American flag flapping proudly overhead.
Sunday July 19th in Lemont was a good day.
I’m not going to post any of the other pictures unless I can talk to the director about the kids. I don’t need any [...]
But what about the FIREWORKS?
Saturday, July 4, 2009
The fireworks themselves? They ROCKED. Huge huge explosions, lots of different patterns, clear view, a little music – it was great.
The crowds were enourmous, but in my area of the park/shoreline at least it was almost all families and friendly little groups.
The photography side didn’t go as well. I brought the wrong lens – I [...]
Split up the crowds
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Its one thing to complain randomly, its another to contribute something in an honest effort to improve things. I can’t think of a great way to solve most of the problems except to cancel the whole thing – that area and perhaps ANY area just isn’t setup to handle a million people all milling about [...]
CTA 1, Hunter 0, CPD -1
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Last night there was an altercation between me and a CPD officer on a horse. No tickets were issued, no arrests, no citations, nothing. Just some smudged glasses and badly bruised foot (I got stepped on by his partners plow horse).
Overall, it was just part of much much larger failing of the CPD (for those [...]