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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009, Springfield, Illinois held it’s first official Tweetup!  The folks from #ElginDay came down to Springfield to lobby for improvements to their city in the Capitol Building.  Posted below is a video and some photos fr...
Sometimes as photographers we get put into situations in which we have to deal with tricky lighting situations.  Unfortunately for me, tricky lighting situations occur in every building on my campus.  It’s a good thing though because it pushes me ...
      
UIS Men’s Basketball vs. St. Ambrose on November 10, 2008.  First home game of the season for the men’s basketball team.  Here are a couple of shots from that game.  And by a couple I mean like 50-ish.UIS Men’s Basketball vs. St. Ambrose...
UIS Men’s Basketball vs. St. Ambrose on November 10, 2008.  First home game of the season for the men’s basketball team.  Here are a couple of shots from that game.  And by a couple I mean like 50-ish.UIS Men’s Basketball vs. St. Ambr...
Last weekend I attended an engagement party for a good friend of mine.  It had already been a long day of traveling to shoot engagement photos and pre-bridals for another friend of mine so I was pretty tired by 10 p.m.  As I am sitting there drinking my ...

I’ve been spending most of my time the last two weeks taking photographs. Here are just a handful of shots from the first couple of weeks.
I know what you’re thinking: “You weren’t at the eduWeb conference!!” True, however, due to the excellent coverage by many many people namely Nick Catto, Brad Ward, Matt Herzberger, Michael Fienen, and many more that can be seen ...
Time for an update! I wanted to update last Friday, but didn’t have the chance. Things have been really busy this summer, something that I didn’t expect. But it’s been good, so please don’t take that as a complaint. Overall, the...
Time for an update! I wanted to update last Friday, but didn’t have the chance. Things have been really busy this summer, something that I didn’t expect. But it’s been good, so please don’t take that as a complaint. Overall, the...
One of the projects I have been working on in the past three months was aimed at bridging the gap between MySpace and Facebook. It is often considered that MySpace is what high schoolers use and Facebook is what college students use. In every group, the...
This should be a very discussion based post. Although the answer might seem simple at first, I really want you to think hard about what it takes to make a good photographer or to make a good photo. Then, I want you to tell me what makes them great. I...

First off, let me start by saying my apologies for not having blogged in such a long time. Finding that balance between full-time employee, student, and friend has been difficult this semester. The last three weeks have been particularly crazy and have ...
Well almost. The weather still jumps around like crazy, but we haven’t seen a 30 degree day now in about a week. Yesterday afternoon, was absolutely beautiful outside, by far the best day of the year thus far so students were out playing around. ...
Well almost. The weather still jumps around like crazy, but we haven’t seen a 30 degree day now in about a week. Yesterday afternoon, was absolutely beautiful outside, by far the best day of the year thus far so students were out playing around. ...
Effectiveness is a word that I have been tossing around my head for some time now. It started with my post a few weeks ago about Using Twitter for Higher Ed. I posted about trying to figure out a way to put Twitter to good use for higher education. It&...
I subscribe to a blog called Faces of Web 2.0 21st Century Teachers and over the weekend they posted a very interesting video called 21st Century Classes. Recently, there have been a couple of universities that have decided to give iPhones to their inc...
I’ve had something lately that I haven’t really had for a while: spare time. I’ve decided that I wanted to put some of that time to good use. I stumbled across a video on YouTube about the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO.So I th...

As I was checking my Facebook messages, Superpoke, and App invites (deny all!), I saw this well executed advertisement.  My friend (and facebook friend) Brad signed up for an offer a while ago to make some extra cash on the side.  FusionCash put an advert...
There have been a lot of posts lately about the uses of . Andrew Careaga asked Should Universities Tweet, a University of Auburn student, Brett Pohlman posted about Twitter, Chris Brogan wrote about a company that Uses Social Media to Announce, and The ...

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