The coolest grocery store in Chicago

...if you like Indian food as much as I do, that is.

Wedded bliss.

With all the sadness in the world, sometimes its nice to spend the evening with a couple in love, surrounded by the folks who love them...

A family farm

This dairy farm has been in the family for four generations.



The barn is 98 years old.

How to stay out of the newspaper

If you want to avoid having your picture in the newspaper, wear a tshirt that alludes to profanity. This woman describes a masked man carrying a gun fleeing after robbing a bank a few blocks from her home.

What else? Prep basketball!

I'm guessing in the last three years I have shot about 100 prep basketball games.

Everything but the game...

Each prep sports season I develop a love for a team in our county it seems...here are the images from the last game of the season from my favorite basketball team.

End of the Season

After losing at Sectionals.

TV Land

From a biz asst on a new store opening.

Flaming Dancers

OK. Trying to figure out an appropriate cutline for this image.

Girl Scouts performed a dance at a local talent show. The girls (aged 8-10 yrs old), dressed in all black, and taped glow sticks to their costumes. Whilst performing, they looked (a little) like skeletons. Does that make sense? 1/2 second exposure from backstage...

OK, since it's totally unclear to everyone who has seen this picture, how these blue blurs could be 10 y/o girls, this is what they looked like prior to dancing:

Not quite the NYC

I heart the subway.

After the debacle that has been the CTA at home this year, one can't help but envy the efficiency of MTA in NYC.

The return of my website

After a few long days of fighting with readyhosting, my website has returned with a new portfolio edit and project. Please check it out and tell me what you think. Any notification regarding typos or broken links would be appreciated. Mille grazie.

www.rebekahraleigh.com

New Edit for Portfolio Singles

With contest entry season just having finished, it seemed an opportune time to re-edit my portfolio singles. My website is currently down due to some strange settings applied to it by my hosting company. I've been fighting with them about it for 24 hours now, hopefully it will be back up in a day. Until then, this is the new edit and sequence, any feedback would be helpful regarding the images, sequencing, etc...

cont'd

Hockey is not a gentlemen's game...

Really would have liked to have a 300 for this...the compression would have helped a lot. Alas, we are without.

Back in Action...

I haven't felt much like posting lately. Maybe its seasonal affective disorder? But I'm feeling back in the swing of things.



Flying kites inside a Woodstock, Ill. church. The kites--made of garbage bags and bamboo rods-- weigh less than an ounce.

Rebuilding a rail bridge

After the tornado derailed a train and took the tracks ont his bridge with it, Union Pacific engineers worked to put it all back.

A tornado, in January

The tornado hit at dusk, a full 40 min from the office, so light was limited...