Steeple and Tree

Heart Nest

Buddy Guards the Christmas Tree

Horizontal Tree

Old White Door

I really like images of ruins, ancient decay, industrial debris, abandoned buildings, rotting machinery, and other reminders of the transient nature of physical entities and human life. We should more frequently contemplate our personal death and the dissolving of all things.

Tavern Santa

Gone With No Goodbye

Obliterated. No trace of what this once was. Washed away, like the memory of who we are and what we did. It all swirls swiftly down the drain of time and dissolution. Lost. Erased. Evaporated. Only the metaphysical residue remains, the karma we produced for future generations, the anonymous legacy of our spirituality.

Traffic Light and Sculpture

Suspended Basketball in Sports Bar

Art Show

Giant Slide Rule

Robert Killion of the Peoria Historical Society

with a giant slide rule, 

an ancient analogue computer,

that was salvaged

from a Peoria high school.

Parking Lot Gulls

November Moon

Giant Bird on Watchtower (3 photos)

Photos taken in Peoria Heights, IL on October 31, 2011.

I like to take photos with color field contrasts and visually composed shapes. Do you see the V in the middle? Notice how the visual field is cut in half horizontally? Observe the stark contrast between the left side, with air conditioners and windows, and the right side, that is grey brick.

Helicopter and Tree

Solar Powered Death Ray Tower?

Picnic Tent Cloud

Early October Sunset 2011

Back Trouble

Kim Johnson photographer for Art and Society magazine

Dirt is Now Accepting Your Payments

But What is the Dog's Name?

Pabst Sign this is the place

A Deer in the Backyard

Wood and Paint Fragment #1

Stupid Store Sign

Buddy on Schmoeger Park Bridge

Please Curb Your Dog

Late Summer Creek Lilly

Monitoring the Surveillance Systems

Steven Streight at Schmoeger Park

Chillin' at Crusens

Retro Phono

Spacetones by Str8 Sounds CD cover

Double Portrait of the Artist

Downtown Peoria Rebellion

Hand of F8

Panel Distortion

Chuck Hickey with Chuck Hickey CD

Party Mask

Andrea Streight and Chuck Hickey

Boo

Summer Color

Stormy Monday at Str8 Sounds Media Lab

Str8 Sounds minerals and liquids CD

Patio Shadow Portrait of the Artist