Oh my yes – Eckhart Hall, the seat of many a mathematics course for me at the University of Chicago. I got to thinking about this photograph yesterday because of a conversation I was having via twitter with a @thewindypixel follower about bit-depth and dynamic range in photography. Suffice to say that this is a...
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I’m very proud to announce the name of my new blog and provide an RSS feed to those of you who want to subscribe a bit early. My new blog’s name is The Golden Sieve and it will officially launch on Monday September 6th when I will provide lots more linkage and give you details...
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One of the goals I set for myself in making the images you’ve seen in this series on The University of Chicago was to capture some of the timelessness of old places. No redwoods are these buildings, a scant one hundred and nineteen years mark this University’s founding (and this building is younger still), yet...
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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...

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