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Soon we’ll be off to Los Angeles for our 3rd workshop in this architecturally rich city. While we have many amazing locations planned we can’t make it to absolutely everything, given [...]

A short trek outside of Chicago is one of our favorite photo locations, the Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Santiago Calatrava. This place is a little special to me as it’s one of the [...]

It’s been awhile since we’ve discussed photo series so I thought it might be good to revisit this topic from a different perspective than what I discussed about a year ago in this [...]

Shadows can be a great subject for architectural images, in both abstracts and cityscapes. I think I was originally drawn to shadows because, when my kids were younger, the only time I could get [...]

One of my struggles is photographing a space in a wider context to give viewers a frame of reference. My inclination is to go straight to the detailed, abstract version of whatever it is [...]

“The art of photography is about directing the attention of the viewer.” – Steven Pinker Composition is probably the most important element of creating an effective photograph. [...]

Last month, I led a photowalk around the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park. Such great diversity in architectural styles on this campus. First up, the brutalist Regenstein Library. While [...]

We’re back with another guest post! This time Lauri Novak shares some of Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. First, a little background on Lauri: Lauri Novak is a fine art [...]

We thought it would be helpful to occasionally share subject or composition ideas to help you see your environment in a new way. We’d also urge you to take just one of these ideas and focus [...]

Hi! We’re starting a new feature where we’ll occasionally have a guest blogger share some tips or locations that might be of interest to you. Our first guest contributor is Marie [...]