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Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
Today I satisfied my own curiosities.
Explored my world with a camera.
The other day I was driving to Waverly, Ill. on Route 4 between Chatham and Auburn with my windows down. I heard a dull roar to my left then the sound increased as this bright yellow p...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
It’s always fun to photograph events that don’t take themselves too seriously: one of the first things I noticed on Sunday when covering a motorcycle rally at the Illinois Presbyterian Home was the commemorative tee-shirts organizers made up f...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
When the idea was floated for a series of photographic postcard- inspired feature stories on area, out-of-the-way Illinois towns and villages, I first thought of Greenview, about 20 miles north of Springfield off Rt. 29. Other than driving through...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
I remember watching the Apollo 11 astronauts make their historic landing on the moon 40 years ago today. My family gathered around the TV and like almost everyone else on earth, held our breath while the most incredible journey undertaken by man unfolded....
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
I remember watching the Apollo 11 astronauts make their historic landing on the moon 40 years ago today. My family gathered around the TV and like almost everyone else on earth, held our breath while the most incredible journey undertaken by man unfolded....
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
A simple pinwheel could occupy me for hours in my youth. I have fond memories of holding the usually colorful geometric designs out the window of a car and seeing how fast they would spin. They were just as fun to me as trying to clean the head a dandelio...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
Shortly after Gov. William G. Stratton took office in 1953, he proposed that the state could save money by consolidating the various state offices scattered throughout downtown Springfield into a new office building located near the Capitol. Between the H...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
For more than 30 years, N. MacArthur Blvd. was converted to a racetrack one Saturday each summer for the annual soap box derby races. The racecourse was known as Douglas Downs because it ran down the hill alongside Douglas Park.
The rules were simple; the...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
And that headline would probably be appropriate if The Onion had a bit of fun with the news around these parts. But through the magic of photography and a photo op at Lincoln’s Museum this past Saturday, you can see for yourself. Gurnee resident...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
I joked with Ross Isaac chef and owner Sean Keeley last week, telling him that Graham Kerr, of the old tv show The Galloping Gourmet, was an inspiration for me. My first inkling at the ripe age of ten was that Kerr seemed to be having a lot of fun....
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
I used to preach a mantra that you should never let editors dictate what you photograph. That may sound egotistically, but in our daily grind to fill the paper, we as photographers often get trapped in the mentality of shooting just to fill an assignment....
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
After pushing his wife into the family pool Michael Farley is thrown in by friend Josh Holdman and wife Delores Farley at the Farley’s home on Stephenson Avenue Tuesday, June 30, 3009.
Jason Johnson/The State Journal-Register
These photographs all came ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
That was the way the Illinois State Journal characterized Springfield’s first city hall in February 1959 when the sixty-six-year-old, “weather-defeated and dirt-stained” original City Hall was staring down a date with the wrecking ball. The city’s...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
The third annual 4Wheel Jamboree rolled into Springfield over the weekend kicking off three days of four-wheel fun.
The Jamboree is more than just monster trucks. Four-wheel drive enthusiasts aftermarket manufactures and parts distributors from all over t...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
Newspaper photographers sometimes get lucky with fire photos. On thursday evening, after I had left Douglas Park where I had photographed the last park performance of the Springfield Municipal Band this year (but hopefully not forever), I came across a ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
It was a bit personal for me thursday night at Douglas Park. Many moons ago, during my first photo internship spent at the Morning Call in Allentown, PA, I spent the entire summer working on a photographic essay on an area municipal band. Probably fee...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
Some role reversal would seem to be in order in introducing our readers to Dr. Victoria Nichols-Johnson in today’s Heartland section feature. Instead of applying the African proverb “it takes a village to raise a child” in assessing th...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
It is always a wonderful experience to photograph an artist passionate about his or her work. In this case, Springfield’s Terry Ludwig might not be someone to immediately come to mind. This is because Terry’s “artform” is bar...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, was the first day of the 60th annual Sangamon County Fair in New Berlin. Theo Knust, 97, who has attended 58 out of the 60 fairs held, remembers helping setup the first fair in a New Berlin park. Since then the fair moved to New ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 2 years ago.
The city of Springfield celebrated the simultaneous opening of four new, modern fire stations in June 1954. Station No. 4 at Nineteenth and Converse Ave., No. 3 at Osborn and North Grand Ave. West and No. 5 at Eighteenth and Clay Sts. were identical in de...
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