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The Varsity Theater in Ashland Oregon. I was just going to continue strolling on by, but a perfect scene of theater goers in front of this old building made for a nice photo!

Street food, Thai style. These vendors were everywhere in Bangkok, and you had to at least try it. Most of the street food was actually very good, and certainly an experience!

Bicycles available for borrowing outside of the h2hotel in Healdsburg, CA. Our destination was the Spoonbar inside the hotel, but I didn’t make it inside without noticing these sharp white bicycles. I especially liked the way the purplish lights created shadows of the bike pedals on the concrete below.

This is a project I’ve wanted to do for a while. The idea is simple but the execution can be a little more difficult. I mounted my camera with a wide angle lens between the seats of my car. With the manual exposure set and a remote shutter release in my hand I was off to the races, or at least the city streets. I had a little help from my trusty assistant to fire a flash inside the car manually during some of the exposures. My first attempt was with 3.2 sec exposures, and I liked the results. I’ll play around with varying the time next, so I either get blur, or more sharp context for what is going on outside the car.

After taking a ton of photos driving around looking for lights, I decided what I had would work well as a video. So here you go, not only a photo but also a video I put together of the shots from the evening!

The astute viewer will also notice a little subtle advertising!

Taken from one of my favorite shooting locations in one of my favorite cities! This view of Chicago at night is fantastic, I shot it late at night but had enough light from the city to give it an eerie glow.

A scooter races by the bright lights of Soi Cowboy in Bangkok at night. We made our trip though this street short, but not before I had time to get some pictures of the neon lights and scooters racing everywhere.

Milwaukee at night. This night was particularly cold with some very low cloud cover. I love the top of 100 East Wisconsin in the background, the fog hanging over the lights on the top adds a very spooky feel to this already cold and still winter night.

An empty pier at night. Clear, cold and serene. In the summer this would be a very busy place, but this time of year even the water is frozen and still.

There are many cool sights in Playa del Carmen. This establishment on a bright yellow street corner is certainly one of them! It was early so not may people were out enjoying this restaurant yet, but I’m sure the crowds were coming!

The Milwaukee River at night! I don’t make it back to my homeland of Wisconsin very often in the summer. On this trip I was able to spend a night in Milwaukee with some friends, and had to check out this part of downtown. It was a cool clear night, and the lights shone perfectly off of the water. I didn’t have a tripod so I had to make the best of it by using a railing and some steady hands, and everything worked out just fine!