Last June, our friends Rick and Sue Petty were in a horrible motorcycle accident. Yesterday, my husband and I spent the day at the rehab hospital with them, to put this video together for their benefit held in Merrionette Park, IL last night. There is a tremendous need for help, financially and otherwise. Please forgive…
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I’ve been taking a class–again–in portrait photography (my third class in this particular subject), and really having a ball. Nowadays, so many people can buy expensive cameras and manage to take pretty good pictures with them. I want to learn more than the mechanics of the thing though, I want to really become intuitive…



A couple of weeks ago, my assistant and I had great fun shooting Marj and Ben’s 65th wedding anniversary, held downtown at Francesca’s on Taylor Street! That is an event to be celebrated, isn’t it? Nowadays, it’s at LEAST equal to the wedding in significance, and much more rare! How smart it was to hire…










