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Posted by Behind the Curtain 7 months ago.
The good old days. If you were looking to find them, the annual Steam Show and Fall Festival Days held on the grounds of South Jacksonville’s Prairie Land Heritage Museum last weekend would most certainly qualify. My ulterior motive for going this y...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 7 months ago.
Today’s Heartland focuses on volunteers who tend to the many needs of the canine population at the Sangamon County Animal Control Center. I didn’t want to leave the impression, however, the place is all about dogs. Unfortunately, a thriving fe...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 8 months ago.
For ten years, South Florida was my home. On September 11, 2001, I was a working photojournalist for one of America’s top photographic newspapers, The Palm Beach Post, based in West Palm Beach. For the past week I’ve wrestled with doing a post...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 8 months ago.
I want to share some outtakes from the two days I had working at Gard Elementary School in Beardstown, Ill. last week. The atmosphere of the school was very unique. Children will be children but the personalities and cultures blended with the schools inco...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 8 months ago.
The 2011 version of The Illinois State Fair is now history, and with it, my annual look back at some favorite photographic outtakes.Gambling, (for a majority of the year) might come to the fairgrounds as well. Here, a Governor Quinn supporter attending th...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 8 months ago.
If you noticed the photographs from today’s Heartland have a different look to them, it’s because they were all taken with a lens made out of plastic. None of that fancy glass from Canon that we usually work with; these were taken with a $25 p...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 10 months ago.
Unfortunately not all the photographs we take make it into the paper. These images were all made on a particularly slow and extremely rare Tuesday afternoon. It’s not often that I find myself void of many assignments and a warm afternoon anymore.
Prior ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 10 months ago.
I spent about two and a half hours yesterday photographing jugglers for a story about the World Juggling Federation coming to the Prairie Capital Convention Center. For the entire time I was there almost every participant was juggling, never stopping. The...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 10 months ago.
Large explosives filled the night sky with color and sound all throughout the Springfield area over the Independence Day weekend. The experience doesn’t have to end just because you’re back at work. We recorded two of the bigger fireworks show...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 10 months ago.
So how did you do Like I mentioned before, sometimes ideas work sometimes they don’t. I haven’t decided if I think what I tried this go around worked or not. I wanted the street scene of Capitol Avenue, but it’s almost too busy and it k...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 10 months ago.
Since today is Independence Day I thought I’d try to share some tips on how to photograph fireworks. I’ve photographed my fair share of fireworks in and around Springfield during my tenure here at the SJR. Some might call me crazy for enjoying...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 10 months ago.
Several weeks ago, I spent the day in East St. Louis. To most, not exactly a tourist destination as the phrase “Post-Industrial Wasteland” might sooner come to mind to most Illinoisans knowledgeable of this places many woes. But for those with...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 11 months ago.
I had a great time last week photographing the new LED lighting system that turns Springfield’s Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon into an ever-changing nightly light show. In honor of the 5oth International Carillon Festival going on this week at Washin...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Ten years is not a lot of time in the history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, a Diocese that includes parishes from 28 surrounding counties and whose first bishop- James A. Griffin, was consecrated not in Springfield but in Chicago on Februa...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Ten years is not a lot of time in the history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, a Diocese that includes parishes from 28 surrounding counties and whose first bishop, James A. Griffin, was consecrated not in Springfield but in Chicago on Feb. 2...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
This is my first post to Behind the Curtain since returning to the State Journal-Register as a staff photographer in March. I previously worked as an intern in 2009 before working for a solid year and a half at the Jacksonville Journal-Courier.
Storms fas...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
This is a video taken by Michael Landelius of the tornado that hit Girard yesterday afternoon. You can see photos from the aftermath in this gallery.
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
Luckily there doesn’t seem to be much, if any, damage from this round of storms for central Illinois. Please don’t tell my mother that I actually drive towards these things instead of away.
I started this go around in-between Rochester and Riv...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
When the tornados stuck Springfield in 2006 I was actually in a car heading towards Loami because that was where the first reports of a touchdown were coming from. Not realizing how fast that storm was moving it was on top of me before I even got to Wabas...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 1 year ago.
I have loved old bookstores ever since I was a kid. Springfield is fortunate to still have a “real” old bookstore. And I’m not talking about the ones where Harlequin romances pack the shelves as far as the eye can see, although, like eve...
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