CHICAGO and BEYOND

The "Gawker" at Daily Plaza, Chicago, IL

Jewelers Row / Wabash Avenue, Chicago Trump Tower in background.

Ducks Landing on frozen river.

Algonquin dam on the Fox River, IL

Abstract Female Mallard Duck

This image is very close to lookiing like an art painting.

Mackinac Island

. No cars are allowed on the Island. Horses and bicycles are the main transportation.

Barrington Hills, Illinois

Sunflower Landscape

Northern Illinois Winter Scenic

Male Ruby Throated Hummingbird at Feeder

Camera pre-focused, tripod mounted, with remote shutter release.

Six Point White-tailed Buck

Notice vine wrapped around antlers.

Nature struggle for survival

The Wood Duck's are very elusive.

Male Wood Duck. These ducks are extremely elusive. I finally captured this guy from behind my blind at around 50 feet away.

Chicago has beautiful architecture.

35 East Wacker Dr., Chicago is one of my favorite landmarks.

Another top 500 from Alamy

Another top 500 contributor.

Great Blue Heron under attack.

Red winged Blackbirds are very teritorial.

Ahhh...

Baby Foxes are called "kits"

Kits (Baby Fox) across the canal from my dock.

I think they were looking at a bull frog and deciding whether or not to eat it.

Alamy Stock Agency Top 500 Contributor. Second quarter in a row.

Top 500 Conrtibutor out of 30,000 photographers.

Common Mergansers by waterfall.

Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Lake Superior "Vastness"

Sales at Alamy continue to improve and I've made the top 500 photogs out of roughly 30,000 contributors.

Mute Swan by Marsh.

His mate was busy nesting so in his spare time, he granted me a pose.

Sandhill Crane Stretching.

After a long time photographing these birds, they finally got "used" to me and I was able to get fairly close to them. / Barrington Hills, Illinois, USA.

Red-tail Hawk

I knew that at any moment this raptor would "launch". This time I was ready.

Mute Swan

This bad boy and his partner ran away from their domestic home pond and settled in this nearby woodlands. The owner told me he would have to hire a "swan wrangler" to drive them back home.