Jellies!

I'll be away from home (and away from this blog) for the next week, visiting family in beautiful San Francisco. I'll return with lots of new photos for the blog (and hopefully for a couple of projects I'm working on), but in the meantime, here's a bunch of shots I took at the jellyfish exhibit at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium last weekend.
Enjoy!

Pretty Ivy

The photo would be better if not for my hand reflected in the window. Oh well. Shot on the University of Chicago campus last fall.

Enjoy The Purple

Shot in camera RAW through an infrared filter, then left unprocessed. This was in Portland, I think, in the Japanese gardens.

Chinatown Night

I shot this photo on a rainy night in Chinatown a couple of years ago (the blue spots on the left edge of the photo are from raindrops on my lens). I like the blue light in the window and the motion blur of the people in the street.

Cichlid

Shot yesterday at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

I wonder where that fish has gone.
You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.
And it went wherever I did go.
Is it in the cupboard?
Yes! Yes! No!…
Wouldn’t you like to know? It was a lovely little fish.
And it went wherever I did go.
It’s behind the sofa!
Where can that fish be?
It is a most elusive fish!
And it went wherever I did go.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
A-fish, a-fish, a-fish, a-fishy, ooooh.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
That went wherever I did go.

Infrared Panorama

I shot this mosaic/panorama a couple of weeks ago in the Dan Ryan Woods on Chicago's southwest side.

Damaged-My First Book!

Damaged by Tyler Hewitt | Make Your Own Book

I've just published a book on Blurb.com. It's a book of photographs I made back when I was a student, trying a technique on a roll of film and having it come out completely wrong. The images turned out to be pretty interesting, despite the errors. I posted a few images from this project here about a year and a half ago. Follow that link to read more detail about what I was attempting to do with that film.

I'm excited about this book, It's something I've been planning for quite a while. I've got ideas for several more books as well.

Hope you enjoy it!