Photography
Steps of McCormick
As a cinematographer and director, I am commonly on shoots. Some of them are exciting, some of them are lucrative, and some of them are just to pay the bills. But no matter what should I go on, one of my favorite things is The photography I get while I'm on these shoots. Even the most boring shoot, I can find something exciting to photograph. It's not for the client, it's not for the producer, or for the project, these are photographs just for me.
Winters in Chicago can be brutal. Actually, they are brutal. Sadly that keeps a lot of us inside including us photographers. But when the weather starts to get nice again, we come out to play.
It was a foggy morning on March 10. I decided to go out to the lakeshore which is an always changing landscape. There was still snow piled up along the shoreline. I really couldn't tell if I was walking on the beach or on a buildup of ice over the water.
The fog pretty much obstructed the view of anything within half a mile. Massive skyscrapers on the skyline that you can see from anywhere in the city were completely cloaked. It appeared like the shore of the beach of some pirate adventure movie. I would've expected haunted ship to sail out of the fog.
The only thing of color, however, was the water.
Lake Michigan has an aquamarine color to it. As the sun starts to warm up the water and the days become longer, March and April bring an even deeper richer color to the water.
It was the perfect day to take some photos of something few people get out to see because the weather was so miserable but the lakeshore was so haunting and beautiful.
Sea Oats in the Sky
I am on the beach visiting my mom in Florida. I have my Olympus with me but when I change the battery this morning I apparently put in a dead one. I have my iPhone 6 with me and while many photographers would say you can't be a real photographer, apparently, with an iPhone (or anything not costing thousands) I have always pushed myself to make that completely false. The best camera is the one you have with you. The camera just captures what you want. You make the photo.
Shot on iPhone 6