The Windy Pixel » Unique, daily photographs of This American Giant.

I am afraid I’ve fallen a bit short of my initial goal to photographically pass from the south to the north end of Forest Street in Oak Park on this blog. I have simply run a bit short on time and good light. I do, however, have this photograph of the Hills-DeCaro House taken in...

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// There’s this really cool street in Oak Park on which Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked once upon a time. The neighborhood is older, and has many wise and weathered trees (as you can see in the photograph below). As the neighborhood is and was an affluent and wonderful place to live, he built...

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// This blog is composed of about 90% High Dynamic Range photoraphy and my posts in particular on tWp are about 100% HDR work. As the technology grows in popularity and in age, people’s feelings seem to get more and more polarized where HDR is concerned. I was reading Scott Bourne’s Photofocus and was struck...

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// Well I won’t belabor this one – Merry Christmas to you and yours. And, by the way, the cat in the chair on the right is Milton – she was freaking out during the exposures. The ghosting you see is not an artifact of HDR – she would thrash around, pause, and do it...

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// Martin knew it was autumn again, for Dog ran into the house bringing wind and frost and a smell of apples turned to cider under trees. In dark clock-springs of hair, Dog fetched goldenrod, dust of farewell-summer, acorn-husk, hair of squirrel, feather of departed robin, sawdust from fresh-cut cordwood, and leaves like charcoals shaken...

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