Monday, September 5, 2011

Sight Seen


Monday, August 29, 2011

Focus



"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus"

- Mark Twain

Monday, August 22, 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

Monday, July 11, 2011

On Assignment


Employee group photograph currently
running in the annual report of a Fortune
500 manufacturer of corrugated products.

Thanks to assistant Tyler Kaschke for the
production stills.


Monday, July 4, 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

I don't shoot weddings...



July 25, 2011 1722 EST
Crawfordsville, Indiana

...but it was pretty clear that this shot was not going to take itself.
Thanks to everyone in my row at Chelsea and Spencer's wedding
for letting me crawl over them so I could get this quick iPhone shot.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

On Fathers Day...

A picture of my father, Arnold Tolchin, and one he made.

That's him, on the job, in a photo which appeared in Life Magazine in
September, 1953. Third from left, wide-eyed, photographing Harry Truman
and Adlai Stevenson with his Speed Graphic balanced on the balcony.

Below, a photo of JFK he made in 1960.



Monday, June 13, 2011

Monday, May 30, 2011

Sight Seen


Los baños del Santuario de Chimayó.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Sight Seen


With apologies to Georgia O'Keeffe. And to Ansel Adams who probably
did not do his Ranchos de Taos photography with an iPhone as I did last week.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Sight Seen



“Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar
things, waiting only to be perceived.”


Wynn Bullock

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Monday, March 7, 2011

Sight Seen



"To me, photography is an art of observation.
It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...
I've found it has little to do with the things you see
and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

Monday, February 28, 2011

125th of a Second



A pleasant surprise I found while editing the proofs of a recent,
particularly demanding, corporate employee portrait shoot.
I had no recollection of having shot it. 125th of a second.

Monday, February 14, 2011

On Assignment



One of a series of employee portraits recently
completed on location for a corporate
annual report.

Monday, January 24, 2011

On Assignment





Executive portrait photography by Chicago portrait photographer
Robert Tolchin. The location portraits shown here were part of a recent
assignment at a major Chicago law firm.

Monday, January 17, 2011

125th of a Second



And I thought we were done. Saw this moment while walking
away from the camera after finishing a recent portrait session
at our Highland Park studio. You're never done.