Housing Rebounds as Foreclosures Resume
Puffy white clouds are usually a great sight, but not when they dot the sky over these five fore closed homes I found on Chicago’s Southwest side.
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Chicago Lifestyle Photographer: Miller64 launches my new lifestyle ads
My exciting new GLBT lifestyle ads for Miller64 were just released during a party at Roscoe’s Tavern in Chicago, the location where we shot the above image.
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Chicago Food Photography: The Peasantry elevates street classics
I had no idea how much I enjoyed shooting food until I started shooting restaurant reviews for The Daily. It’s a nice challenge to shoot small items, combined with big backgrounds, to create drama and make the viewer long for an early dinner.
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PFGBest mystery deepens
Employees emptied their desks and a local charity collected food from the cafeteria of failed broker PFGBest’s Iowa offices on Wednesday, most still seeking answers to the expanding scandal that has shaken the industry.
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Corn turns down in profit-taking setback
Corn turned lower on Wednesday as traders pocketed profits from an historic rally that lifted prices 40 percent in three weeks, fuelled by the worst drought in 24 years that prompted the U.S. government to slash its production estimate by 12 percent.
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Editorial Portrait: Federal Judge Posner
Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync. The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in Apple Inc’s (AAPL) smartphone technology battle is questioning whether patents should cover software or most other industries at all.
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Choi wins U.S. Women’s Open
South Korea’s Choi Na-yeon survived a tumultuous four-hole stretch after the turn to win her first major title by four shots at the U.S. Women’s Open in Kohler, Wisconsin on Sunday.
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Choi takes command of U.S. Women’s Open
South Koreans could not look any more comfortable in this U.S. Women’s Open if it were played in Seoul.
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Pettersen leads at U.S. Women’s Open
Yesterday was a lot easier to cover than Thursday’s U.S. Women’s open. Suzann Pettersen got out front at -5 in the morning and the afternoon’s golfers didn’t offer up much of a challenge. Every time someone looked like they were going to make a run for the lead, we would run out to shoot a few frames just to have them rack up a bogy.
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Heat index 110 – Heat Wins, I lose
Yesterday was one of the hottest days on record in Wisconsin and for the third time in my life, I found myself throwing up and about to pass out.
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