Assignment: Creating a Mood 3

Tech - Canon EOS 5D MK III, 24-105L @ 93, f4, ISO 12,800, 1/50. minimal processing, adjust color balance, saturate ring, full frame with added border, 8px black, white 1.5".

Multiple exposure (5) in camera, post processing in LR. Photographic Jazz.

Shot recently at my yearly gig for the Jazz Foundation of America at their fundraiser in the Apollo Theater, entitled, "A Great Night in Harlem". This is 99 year old Marshall Allen who took over leading the Sun Ra Arkestra after Sun Ra's death in 1993. I photographed Sun Ra many times before that an

Last night, it was unusually warm in Chicago, and the evening had a foggy mist about it which gave it a magical mood. I took a long walk along Michigan Avenue in Chicago from the Auditorium Theater where I saw a wonderful musical - The Sugar Hill - Nutcracker and stopped along the way at the Art In

This was not a shoot for Halloween! But it was a musician who wanted an impactful portrait where he was recognizable and unrecognizable all at once. It's always satisfying to work with someone who has a sense of humor.

Here's a photo that I made today on the bus returning home from downtown Chicago. The passenger with her umbrella and filled plastic bag on her lap is lost in thought, while the bus driver, in the mirror, strangely appears to be facing her. The rider is wearing a Chicago beanie, which establishes t