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Last week, we shared our own images from the Miami Workshop. This week, we wanted to showcase our students’ work, as they got some great shots during the workshop. After each workshop, we [...]

This past February, we went back to Miami for our second workshop. While the city is well-known for its Art Deco buildings, there’s a lot of great modern architecture that makes it a great [...]

While not one of the main topics of this blog, aerial photography is a great way to capture cityscapes. Lately, drones are all the rage but they still have a lot of limitations, and it [...]

When creating architectural images the biggest consideration in composition is isolation, meaning what to include and exclude within your frame. The two basic ways to go about this are filling [...]

Most often we think of cityscapes and all their colorful glory during golden hour and blue hour. While this is ideal and a beautiful way to capture our cities, let’s not overlook the [...]

Summertime means fireworks in a lot of places. National holidays like the 4th of July are an obvious event, but many places do them all summer long, like Navy Pier in Chicago (every Wednesday [...]

I love shooting cityscapes and I always spend some time researching good locations when I visit a new city. Sometimes, it’s hard not to shoot the obvious view and get the same shot as [...]

The 18th Street Bridge is not as well know for skyline images as the Adler Planetarium, but it’s a great location that offers a variety of views. The bridge goes over the south branch of [...]

If you like shooting from observatories, chances are you’ve had to deal with shooting through glass. Most observatories are indoor (the Top of the Rock and the Empire State Buildings are [...]

Today, I wanted to share something that’s in between architecture and cityscapes: the Chicago Bridge Lifts! Every year, the bridges have to open to let sailboats move from between Lake [...]