The Recycled Film

The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones has long been a fan of the legendary Venetian painter Titian. I, too, am a fan of the famous artist of Venice and Jones’ latest post eloquently articulates why the Italian Renaissance painter’s work is so beautiful.

We went for a walk on Monday morning and I took this with the Pano app for iPhone at the corner of the Petrillo Music Shell lawn in Grant Park.

The second photo from my upcoming photography book about the American Southwest, taken in the Jumping Cholla Cactus Garden, at Joshua Tree National Park out in the Mojave Desert.

The first photograph released from my recent excursion to Monument Valley, to be featured in my upcoming first book. Taken around midnight just outside the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, in an area called Monument Pass.

One of two photographs of the Bloomingdale Trail to be featured in a exhibition next month in Chicago! The exhibition, “Reframing Ruin: a Prelude to the Bloomingdale Trail,” will be a part of the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, July 29-31 in Logan Square.

Both Monument Valley and John Wayne would become staples of John Ford’s western movies in years to come, but nothing would ever touch the beauty and excitement of their 1939 debut film, “Stagecoach.”

High-dynamic range (HDR) photograph created with seven photographs. A thick blanket of very moist fog enveloped downtown Chicago last night.

There are some films you just know you’re going to love. But what I didn’t know about Spencer Susser’s debut feature HESHER is that it’s really two or three films, rolled up into one amazing burrito of heavy metal entertainment.

Water-mixable oils on canvas paper. This painting originated as two separate photographs I took in the French Quarter district of New Orleans, LA while on a trip there in March 2008.

HDR photograph created with 7 photographs. Taken at The Galleria in Red Bank, New Jersey.