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Occasional images and a few musings from Scott Edwards

Evening

Evening light Minolta Scott Edwards

A spontaneous walk with an old Minolta 58 1.4 lens in hand… the last two images seem more like paintings of light. The sky is a gift to everyone… constantly changing, constantly providing a record of time and season. Thanks for your time. You can find out more about me on this website.  I’m Scott […]

Clear Skies

Clear skies

A beautiful fall day, along with some interesting buildings and lines… Architectural details and a few cracks can be found in this wonderfully colorful photo. Grand Lux Cafe is at Westheimer and Post Oak Blvd, across from the Galleria. Post Oak Boulevard in Houston houses some incredible mixed-use office and retail space. The three building […]

I don’t really believe in coincidences. Too often it has been easy to see a purpose in randomly bumping into a friend or stranger… This is how I feel about the happy accident of being at the right place at the right time to shoot this image.  Here’s a second image… taken just seconds before. […]

It is one of the most prized lens in history; a personal obsession that now takes root.  PART 1 OF 2.  My personal obsession began four years ago.  I had jumped into professional photography with both feet, had spent hundreds of hours on the technical aspects, and was constantly reviewing thousands of images in search […]

The Train Stop

portrait of young girls

Photographing children – or in this case, two children and a teenager – can be elevated or differentiated with a story or a set/location. Three sisters were my subjects.  In the age of COVID-19, I suggested they and their mother first meet me at a train stop that was now seeing a fraction of the […]

In three short years, the Winnetka Music Festival (Winnetka, Illinois, home to the “Home Alone” house and other points of interest) has established a reputation for great acts and a great time for all ages.  Created by Winnetka natives Val Haller and Scott Myers, this year’s festival featured 60 acts performing across four stages and additional […]

Winter Wanderings

-22F woods

This winter has been a “doozy” as my dear old Mom used to say.  Because I grew up in south Louisiana, doozy applied to other things – athletic feats, five-car pileups and report cards (mine, not my sisters’ good grades).  She never used the term for subzero temperatures, bone-crushing layers of ice and snow or a […]

Hope on Film

Bill Clinton's grandparents bedroom

Film is just so different – the tones, the transitions from light to shadow, the grain.  In January, I was driving through Hope, Arkansas, and decided why not?  I stopped at the house President Bill Clinton called home during the first four years of his life, where he lived with his grandparents, not his mother […]

Light and Dreams

Light is such a huge contributor to a successful shoot… well, light and attitude. You can have great light but if the attitude isn’t there, either on the part of the subject or photographer, then any success will be measured. I once photographed a group and could feel palatable tension.  The photographer’s mission is to […]

Down on the Bayou

I was down there in November for a brief moment.  Louisiana, that is. Except for photographing a law firm and its members, I was largely cloistered in the house of one of my sisters, processing images until 2 am, or at the nearby PJs, drinking coffee and… processing. I was finally able to break free […]

My father-in-law is 94 years old.  He is quite simply a photographer’s dream.  He has a great face.  He is kind, patient and very happy to model for me all day and night long. He lives in Houston (via a long, arduous journey from Teheran) and I live in Chicago.  So when he’s under my […]

The Fall of Minolta

Here in Chicago, the run of the colors began about 10 days ago… just a few trees began to turn orange or red and then other trees started to fall in line.  I’ve been shooting – doing commercial and portrait work (and launching a new Facebook page and this new blog) – but am intent […]

The Day of the Eclipse

So, this is a one-off post but the images have some character and there’s a small surprise at the end.  Small, I said. On the day of the recent eclipse, I went to Dodd Camera to return a rented Zeiss superwide lens. Then, given the Chicago neighborhood, I thought I’d park on one of those typical […]

The Kids Are Alright!

Blending a “Senior High” shoot with a “Childrens” session can be a bit of a challenge. Well, hardly children as the two young men are 18 and 16 but their sister, on the other hand, is 9 years old. With that, we met at Montrose Harbor in Chicago as the recently graduated senior enjoyed sailing […]