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Elinchrom ELC500 Monolight

Review: Elinchrom’s new ELC 500 Monolight, HHS, TTL, and an LED Modeling Light

Elinchrom’s new studio flash adds High Speed Sync (HSS) and TTL to the manufactures compact monolight plug-in-the wall line-up. A technology pairing that was previously only offered with their battery powered ELB 500.

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Daredevil Nik Wallenda starts his walk along a tightrope between two skyscrapers suspended 500 feet (152.4 meters) above the Chicago River as a plane flys past in Chicago, Illinois, November 2, 2014. REUTERS/John Gress

Wallenda walks over Chicago

Daredevil Nik Wallenda crosses a tightrope between two skyscrapers above Chicago.

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Ariel Castro appears in court for his initial appearance in Cleveland, Ohio, May 9, 2013. Castro, 52, a veteran school bus driver fired from his job last fall, was formally charged with kidnapping and raping the three women, who were rescued from his house on May 6 evening shortly before his arrest. REUTERS/John Gress

Left with more questions in Cleveland

The setting sun shimmered off of wind swept waves on Lake Erie as my plane took off for Chicago and I headed back to normal life, knowing that the people who I covered over the past three days will need a lot more than a 400 mile flight to return to their normal life. I flew to Cleveland on Monday after three women, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, and a child escaped from the home of Ariel Castro after allegedly being held there for about a decade.

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Kayla Figueroa, 12, pauses during an Organizing for Action candlelight vigil against gun violence in Chicago, April 13, 2013. REUTERS/John Gress 1/160 f1.2 ISO320 50mm

It was a 1.2 day

Last night I photographed what turned out to be a scarcely attended candlelight vigil against gun violence, interestingly enough, organized by the former Obama campaign.

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A casket holding the body of Hadiya Pendleton's is moved to a hearse after her funeral in Chicago, February 9, 2013. Pendleton, 15, was fatally shot on Jan. 29 as she and her friends shielded themselves from rain under a canopy in a Chicago park in what police say was a case of mistaken identity in a gang turf war. Pendleton, a sophomore at Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep, had performed with her school band eight days earlier at President Barack Obama's inauguration. A $40,000 reward has been offered in the case. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES)

Hundreds mourning slain Chicago girl

Hadiya Pendleton, 15, was fatally shot on Jan. 29 as she and her friends shielded themselves from rain under a canopy in a Chicago park in what police say was a case of mistaken identity in a gang turf war. Pendleton, a sophomore at Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep, had performed with her school band eight days earlier at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. A $40,000 reward has been offered in the case.

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