I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and happy New Year.  Now that we are a few days into the year, I thought I'd talk about my goal for 2014.  I want to really create and work on my portfolio this year.  My biggest challenge is finding people to photograph, which is part of the reason I use myself as a model so often.  But I am not the perfect character for all of my ideas.  For that, I'm asking you, if you are local or will be traveling to the area (Chicagoland), for help.

I am looking for people who want to be in the photo to be my characters for 2014.  People who love to play dress up and make believe because I want to create stories, not just pretty portraits.  Models are welcome but I want to stress you do not need to be a model to be a character in one of my photographs.  I am looking to create a varied body of work which has room for all body types, women or men or even children.

If you help me, I will get you digital copies of the photos for online personal use and an 11x14/12x12 print of your favorite photo.  Or if you have ideas of your own that you want photographed, we can work something out.  Contact me either by using the contact me here or on Facebook if you are interested and we can start talking ideas.

Here are a few photos from 2013 to give you an idea of my style.

001 Indigo BluesPortrait from the Lost collection. Butterfly Effect 2The butterfly is a symbol of carefree, of beauty, of metamorphosis and change and of death or a messenger from the dead. I am exploring these symbols through a series of simple headshots. 009 HiddenPortrait from the Lost collection.