To celebrate International Women’s Day, Test Positive Aware Network, TPAN, hired me to take commercial photography in Chicago of female employees for the not for profit. Please click here to see more of my professional business portraits and commercial photography.

In order to connect the firms social media audience with the female employees, the communications team had me create environmental portraits of each employee in a location that is germane to their role in the business.

Professional business portraits are a great way for companies to connect with the customers and clients.

Plus professional headshots in Chicago like these are great to have on hand for link-in and the about page on any firms website.

A group photo of all oof the business women really finished off the collection.

And commercial photography in Chicago and professional business portraits with smiling emplyees will bring any social media feed to life.

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WeWork opens fourth Chicago location in former Google office

By Ally Marotti Contact Reporter

Blue Sky Innovation

New York-based WeWork is opening its fourth Chicago coworking space Friday, adding 600 new desks in the River North building that used to house Google’s Chicago office.

WeWork Kinzie plans to eventually take up five floors of 20 W. Kinzie St., but only two of the floors open Friday. The remaining three floors will be added this fall for a total of 2,000 desks at that location, said Bailey Dodds, community manager.

The space overlooks House of Blues, and the décor pays homage to Chicago’s music scene. There are Kanye West lyrics written into the tile near the elevators, music-themed wallpaper in the conference rooms, and a piano on the 17th floor in the main event space.

The views, amenities and nearly wraparound terrace will likely make the Kinzie location the main WeWork event space in the city, Dodds said. Its current desk count in the city is around 2,000.

A dedicated desk costs $520 per month, and private offices start at $750. Available offices can accommodate one to 55 people.

East Coast general manager Dave McLaughlin said WeWork is seeing a demand for larger office spaces throughout its locations… Read More

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Chicago HDR commercial photography behind-the-scenes

To Create the HDR commercial photography architectural interior images, I took three RAW photos of each scene which were properly exposed, over exposed and under exposed. Then I used Adobe’s Lightroom to combine the three RAW files to create a single High Dynamic Range photo.

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70,000 employees volunteered at more than 700 project sites across the country on the 12^th Comcast Cares Day, and what a fantastic day it was. All across the country, Comcast and NBCUniversal employees, their family members and friends worked together to plant gardens, beautify schools, repair community centers, clean riverbanks, and much more in their communities… Read More

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Chicago Advertorial Photographer: I was so excited ten years ago when an advertising agency asked me to shoot nine day-in-the-life photo essays featuring utility workers in Wyoming for a public relations ad campaign. The December 2002 project was such an amazing opportunity to not only take some really cool pictures, but experience quite an adventure. Every day we visited a new small town, each different in their own way.

Chicago Advertorial Photographer: Behind-The-Scenes

Traveling with a producer, art director and a client from Pacific Power, we saw some very interesting things as we canvassed the Cowboy State. In Evanston, we saw a drive thru store selling liquor, adult products, fireworks and sandwiches. Did I mention it was a drive thru? In Rawlings, Wyoming we sang karaoke songs in a bar that had a diner and a liquor store. In Cody, we went to Wild Bill Cody’s steakhouse and ate buffalo and at some place, (God only knows where), we met a taxidermists who loved combining rabbits with antelope horns to form jackalopes!

Barely old enough to get a regular rental car, the project gave me a chance to see how people live in a very different part of our country and it provided me with a great opportunity to push my creative skills, shooting the same topic day after day. I loved creating images that would capture these men in the midst of their daily lives and allow the client to put a face on the impersonal ‘power company.’

We would start each morning with a new employee in a new town and end the day with the producer driving us to the next small community, as the art director and I made selects on my laptop in the back seat.

If the phone rang and the caller asked me to do it again, I would jump at the opportunity and it would be 10 years later and 10 times better.

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