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Greg lectures in front of the Great Lakes fountain of Laredo Taft at the AIC.

World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: Burnham and Holmes Ride 2012

6May12 • • Comments Off

Summary Greg Borzo led a ride like the one the day before with Anne Alt in search of Architectural Beauty. This time rather than the stately gardens and gates of Beverly Hills we toured the downtown area of Chicago and then headed south to Hyde Park to witness some of the splendor that was the

Ken's Nicely Restored Vintage Raleigh

Beverly Gardens and Architecture Tour 2012

5May12 • • Comments Off

Summary The weather today was very overcast and cold. At times there appeared to be misting on the windshield of the van as we drove southeast to the Beverly Hills Neighborhood on Chicago’s far south side. Anne Alt was to lead a ride of 13 riders in and around the environs of Beverly from a [...]

Pylon Drilling

Pylon Drilling

3May12 • • Comments Off

Published on May 3, 2012 by BeezodogsPlace Video was taken on Wheaton College Campus where a railroad intersection is being closed. The pylons are to form the foundation of an underpass that is being installed for pedestrians and bicyclists.

Nikon-1-V1 with SB-N5 Speedlight

Sad Life of the Shutterbug

30Apr12 • • Comments Off

The Death of a Thousand Cuts I got a glimpse into the reality of amateur photography this weekend and it is worrisome. Amateurs are generally male and while they might own many expensive cameras and lenses do not make their living with this equipment. Theirs is an interest in photography which is more deeply tied [...]

Connie Rides the OPRT

FOS – Easter Ride 2012

29Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Folks On Spokes Club website: http://www.folksonspokes.com/ Every ride report has to have an epic moment in which the narrator and his companions surmount a personal best and ride into the sunset more than mere mortals. Well I had a flat on my ride. Or as the Brits call them “punctures”. Last night I had dreamt [...]

Our Native Foods Server

Native Foods Cafe Toodle

28Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Elmhurst Bicycle Club canceled most of its rides this morning. I for one thought that by the time we reached Chicago I would have decided that the weather was too raw to venture out on the bikes. But as luck would have it my arthritis did not prevail and so off we rode in [...]

Native Foods Staff Member at Work

Earth Day Toodle 2012

22Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary If you ever get a hankering to learn to improve your climbing skills, ride in and around the southeast areas in Wisconsin. That will make a vast improvement in your cardiovascular and muscular efficiency in no time flat. Just remember to give your butt a day or two to recover before trying it again. [...]

Tom and Marge pose with their tandem

Wauwatosa Waddle

21Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Today we rode from the Wheel and Sprocket store parking lot in Hales Corners, WI to downtown Wauwatosa along the Root River Trail. We were joined by Tom and Marjorie Rice. They were aboard their newly purchased Double Vision tandem recumbent. We rode along at a comfortable pace as they practiced starting, stopping and [...]

Three "Sisters" - 1

Rip Van Winkle Awakens…

20Apr12 • • Comments Off

Plot Summary (Source) The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York’s “Kaatskill” Mountains, lives the kindly Rip Van Winkle, a colonial British-American villager of Dutch descent. Rip is an amiable though somewhat hermitic man who enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, [...]

Heading for the Flea Market

Experimental Images : A Stroll Down Jefferson…

19Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary On a recent ride in the City of Chicago we took Jefferson north towards Kinzie before crossing the Chicago River on our way north to view an Urban Farm near Division and Clybourn I came across a corner building painted with political figures. I offer then for your consideration. Never let it be said [...]

Standard Focus

Arranging the deck chairs…

19Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Before you read any further check out this article on the LYTRO. This is a camera isn’t just “pie in the sky” it has indeed been released and reviewed by a reputable photographic reviewer. What this does is reinforce for me the fact that the world is once again shifting under my feet. I’ve [...]

Art Institute Lion (Against Blurred Background)

Experimental Images : Art Institute Lion

18Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary You may have heard that the Nikon 1 V1 does not have much in the way of shallow depth of field. No worries. We can manufacture as little or as much as we want.

Connie in a paceline

Experimental Images : Connie in a paceline

17Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary On the way back from Native Foods Cafe Connie forms a pace line along Wood Street to fight the wind.

Bullwinkle walks away from SkyRim

Experimental Images : Bullwinkle “Goes Cold Turkey” On The Gaming Scene

17Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Rocky and Bullwinkle have gone into therapy as they wrestle their separate “demons”. Despite the fact that Rocky is a flying squirrel he has a fear of heights. It has driven home to strong drink and worse. Meanwhile Boris and Natashe have discovered that Bullwinkle the Moose has been a secret gamer for nearly [...]

Outdoor Sculpture

Experimental Images : Tax Day Ride 2012

16Apr12 • • Comments Off

Some more images processed initially in Adobe Lightroom and then altered in Photoshop. The original images can be found in the ride report elsewhere on this site. As always the bulk of the alteration involves the use of Layers to adjust the images. The idea is the render a few colors (in this case four [...]

Apple Store at North and Clybourn

Tax Day Ride 2012

15Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary We slept in today. And if felt good. Sometimes you really need to step back a bit and decide to take the day at a leisurely  pace. It worked! We set off to grab some breakfast and made our way to Einstein Brothers for bagels and then Jamba Juice for acai toppers. The toppers [...]

Native-Foods-Cafe Staff Member

Experimental Images : Cinco De Mayo Cooking Demonstration 2012

14Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Just for fun I went to work on several of the images in the Cinco de Mayo Cooking Demonstration gallery. Enjoy! All of the images were shot in RAW format on a Nikon 1 V1 and then post processed in Adobe Lightroom 4. Afterwards they were opened in Photoshop and given additional tweaking to [...]

Native Foods Cooking Demo Participant 2012

Cinco De Mayo Cooking Demo Toodle

14Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary So in another month we will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo here in the Midwest. And to that end Native Foods Cafe gave an outstanding cooking demonstration for those lucky enough to register before the seating was filled. Chef Kendall put on an entertaining as well as informative demonstration in the preparation of these [...]

Look up in the sky. It's a bird, no a plane, it's Super Moose!

Experimental Images : Moose In the Sky

11Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary This is a sight mentioned in hushed tones by denizens of the Chicago Loop Area. Now you have visual proof that “The Truth is Out There…”

Building Murals Just Off Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park

Experimental Images : Easter Sunday Ride 2012

9Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary For all the insistence on greater controls on the image making characteristics of the Nikon 1 by DPReview Forum members there is precious little of this sentiment heaped upon the tools that are used to post process the resultant images. Nikon 1 users demand seemingly every button option available for the Nikon 1 that [...]

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