It's Christmas time in the city...

Photo of my home with all of the outside lights illuminated. I took advantage of the Wal-Mart "Black Friday" frenzy and bought myself a new digital camera -- a Kodak Easy Share Z760. It has a night setting so the temperature was still warm enough to take it outside with my tripod.

Sunflower

Photo of a sunflower that I took in 2002. The color was manipulated using a Photoshop plug-in.

Sammy Sosa

Here's a photo I took of former Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa when he hit his 61st home run on September 13, 1998 at Wrigley Field off of Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Bronswell Patrick. This photo was taken with my trusty old Canon A-1.

Sosa's feat has subsequently been tarnished by suggestions that he and other major league players used steroids...hence the term "steroid era" has been coined to refer to the late '90s and early '00s.

I applied Photoshop filters to slightly age the photo and to make it appear very old.

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Snow before Thanksgiving

Black and white rendering of an overnight snowfall the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. This picture shows my backyard with the forest preserve behind our yard.