Time permitting, I like to exhaust the different vantage points of a given photographic subject to make sure I’ve got the one I like. When the light is fleeting I try not to get carried away, but on the occasion that I was in Harper Memorial Quadrangle when the light was just right, I couldn’t...
View full post »
Today’s photograph was collected one spring afternoon from the second floor landing of the Chicago Theological Seminary. I used to have to come here quarterly as an undergraduate to visit the labyrinthian Seminary Coop Bookstore in the basement. It took a decade for me to drag a camera into this place and climb those steps...
View full post »
We are going to return to the neo-Gothic confines of Rockefeller Chapel multiple times during this little farewell tour of the University of Chicago. I have started by tagging all of these photographs with “The Long Farewell,” which will eventually be an eponymous gallery here on tWp. Today’s trip to Rockefeller takes us deep into...
View full post »
I noticed this little grinning shape while shooting in the Chicago Cultural Center. The staircase was bathed in a mix of noon daylight and tungsten lamplight – I set the white balance to get a bit of yellow from the tungsten and a bit of blue from the sun. Photo by Justin Kern – Feel...
View full post »
This is the entrance to Dumbledoor’s office – where you have to stand in front of the Gargoyle and say the secret password – Lemon Drops. This was take in Rockefeller Chapel – at the bottom of a set of spiral steps that showed me just how out of shape I am! Photo by Justin...
View full post »
Tags: Chicago, harry potter, hdr, Hyde Park, justin kern, lemon drops, Nikon D700, photomatix, potter, rockefeller chapel, stairs, University of Chicago, university of chicogwarts
