February 10, 2019

Devon Avenue, Rogers Park, Chicago. May 30, 2018

Star Map, May 2018.

This is an image of a supernova at the center of the universe. An exploding star: sending forth cosmic elements which will eventually form new planets and new species of life. And then, after the expanding blossom of the explosion recedes, the dying star will collapse and become a black hole, receding inward and consuming all that surrounds it.

This photograph is a combination of many individual photographs; using my camera I photographed many exposures of the floor of a chapel within Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Next, I combined these images into a single horizontal panorama. This new panorama of the floor in front of me, became my new "master": it was then repeated numerous times, and half of these were reversed, like mirror images. All of these images were then collected into one "canvas" and digitally "stitched" together using Photoshop.

Through the Window of the #22 Clark Street Bus, Chicago,May/June 2017

Lake Michigan, near North Avenue, Chicago, April 2017

Clark Street, Chicago, January 2017

October Ivy, 2016.

The Masque of the Red Death (Single Room Occupancy, Chicago, November 2015)

Three exposures were combined in Photoshop to make this panoramic photograph. This is the interior of a rented room near California and Western Avenues, Logan Square, Chicago. The last night of November, 2015. From Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death:"... But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulge in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments..."

Single Room Occupancy, Chicago, November 2015. Simple Composite of Two Photographs.

Remnant of Industrial Chicago (River West), April 21, 2014.

Untitled, Chicago, 2010

Monarch Butterfly, Chicago, 2010.

Untitled, Chicago, 2010

Monarch Butterfly, Chicago, 2010.

Winter morning, shore of Lake Michigan, 2009.