Between the Orland Park Civic Center at 14750 and the Orland Park Secretary of State Facility at 14700 Ravinia Avenue is a small amphitheater that looks out a small pond.  This is the view out to the pond, full of lily pads and one or two water lilies. The photo was shot on a tilt, to crop out as much of the green and browns of the soil alongside the pond, and capture more of the sky reflected in the water. This was shot with a simple film Vivitar SLR.

A side note about photography….

I find photography to be more of an artistic release, and tend to shoot for that purpose, rather than for commercial reasons or uses.

I engage in photography because I want to capture a secret split-second moment, and I want that moment to mean something.  Even if it’s something most see as trivial or mundane, it’s what I see and what that image means to me. Some of my images I have found to be able to transverse the artistic to commercial, but its only been in rare cases and never been the sole focus of this kind of work.

I was taught by my photography teacher that you can’t judge one’s photographic skill solely based on the gear they use. Sometime the best pictures can be taken from a simple point and shoot, and just because you have the latest model DSLR with the best lens does not mean you have instant photographic gold.

My photographic arsenal is equipped with a Cannon AE-1 SLR with multiple lenses, a Minolta Maxxum 7-Xl, a Vivitar film SLR, a Nikon Coolpix E4200 point and shoot, and Nikon Coolpix S4100 point and shoot, and occasionally the iPhone7.