A River Through Illinois, an innovative collaboration by journalist Gary Marx and award-winning photographer Daniel Overturf, carries readers down the 330-mile Illinois Waterway, from the urban landscape of Chicago to the state’s most rural areas. Combining literary impressions, history, and personal narrative with stunning color photographs, this remarkable book transports readers to places most have never been: three hundred feet below the city of Chicago in a TARP pump station, above the Illinois River in a lift-bridge operator’s hut, in the wheelhouse of a towboat pushing twenty thousand tons. 
The story of the river is told by the people who live along the waterway’s banks and work its course, who rely on it for their livelihoods, their recreation, and their spiritual sustenance. More than one hundred original color photographs and dozens of conversations with waterway residents, workers, and visitors capture the essence of the waterway, exposing its course and uncovering its past.
Traveling through the Illinois &amp; Michigan Canal, Florence, Hardin, Lemont, and Chicago, readers discover a connection to a sense of place and to the early inhabitants of the state. Bar crews, lockmasters, engineers, and those whose memories stretch to the days of steamboats offer their views on the evolution and navigational importance of the waterway. 
Readers encounter such places as Pekin, LaGrange, Peru, and Joliet as a towboat works its way up the waterway that represents commerce and jobs, the challenge of living and working away from home, and following dreams.
The book also introduces Chicago fishermen and wastewater engineers, a city bridge machinist and a marine police officer, who offer insights aboard a patrol boat on the Chicago River, inside a bascule bridge, and in a sailboat marina, revealing an engineering marvel upstream that creates an environmental nightmare downstream.
From Mud Creek to Peoria Lakes, a biologist, an ecologist, and a hydrologist consider the edge of the watershed Meredosia, Chandlerville, Henry, the Kankakee River and its tributaries and discuss the changing nature of the river, including new threats such as sedimentation, and the loss of habitat. Hunters, commercial fishermen, and bridge tenders share their stories that demonstrate resiliency in the face of great change.
A River Through Illinois represents a unique blend of portraits, landscapes, panoramic 360-degree photographs, and personal narratives that create a cast of characters, including the river itself, who give voice to the life of this important waterway.

A River Through Illinois

Overturf, Daniel

Marx, Gary

Travel

Southern Illinois University Press

<div>Exploring Illinois history through the paths we travel Illinois&nbsp;Trails & Traces partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways. Marx and Overturf explore historic routes ranging from Route 66 to the Underground Railroad, all the way back to post-Ice Age animal migration trails followed by Paleo-Indian people. The authors also examine how rivers, canals, and railroads spurred the rapid rise of Illinois as a modern state. Marx and Overturf bring history into the present by including over forty photographic portraits and written profiles of individuals who live along these routes today. Many of the people you will meet on these pages work to preserve and honor the history of these passages. Others profiled here embody the spirit of the old roads and provide a vivid link between past and present. Through this journey, we discover that we've all been traveling the same road all along. &nbsp;</div>

Illinois Trails & Traces: Portraits and Stories along the State’s Historic Routes

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING FOR PHOTOGRAPHY clearly explains the use of artificial lighting of all types through a rich combination of detailed diagrams, visual examples, and practical instruction. Written for beginning photographers, the book introduces and explains the basic concepts of lighting techniques and the relevant equipment and hardware before going on to cover the latest advances in lighting equipment and digital capture devices. This fundamental knowledge is then used to teach key techniques that will help readers utilize the equipment effectively in their work. Equally emphasizing both studio and location environments, ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING FOR PHOTOGRAPHY describes methods for solving a variety of challenges so that readers will gain a thorough understanding of how and why artificial lighting techniques work.

Artificial Lighting for Photography

McKenzie, Joy

Graphic Design

Cengage Learning'

Artificial Lighting for Photography provides students with a comprehensive guide to a variety of artificial lighting techniques, complemented by vibrant diagrams, images, and practical examples. Unit I explores basic concepts related to lighting, including the principles of light, the basic equipment used by students to effectively create their own lighting approach, the relationship between light sources and the resulting shadows, the principles of lighting reflective surfaces, and various techniques for lighting glass. Unit II includes more advanced information, including practical application and historical contexts for light measurement, light sources, and lighting equipment. Readers explore an overview of light intensity and color temperature under more complex circumstances that will encourage experimentation with advanced techniques, from product to portrait applications and more. Unit III features profiles of working photographers with emphasis on their innovative lighting styles. Unit IV, the Grip Glossary Handbook, serves as a professional reference guide that describes the proper and familiar names for lighting equipment photographers will use during their careers. An in-depth guide authored by experienced photographic educators, Artificial Lighting for Photography is an ideal resource for courses and programs in photography and any image-creating media that may employ applied lighting.

Sanseri, Josh D

Cognella Academic Publishing

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