Why I always carry a camera.

Cover and inside spread of current issue of Custom Home Magazine by Chicago magazine photographer Robert Tolchin.

Thanks to Jon Hamblin for his help on our Chicago industrial photography shoot last week (he really does more than walk around with an 18% gray card all day). Fun shoot documenting the production of pipes and tubes from raw steel.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

- Duane Michals

This fine art piece by Highwood photographer Robert Tolchin was recently acquired by a major corporation in the lip care industry. At approximately 50 times life size, printed on canvas, the piece looks very much like a photo-realistic oil painting.

Thanks to MaxLab for the great canvas print on this piece and the one shown below.

This fine art print is currently on dispaly at The Art Center, Highland Park. It's difficult to convey the impact of the piece on screen, but at 2x3 feet, it is very impressive. Printed on canvas, it has the feeling of a charcoal drawing.

Chicago, January 14

Recent hospital annual report photography by Highland Park photographer Robert Tolchin.

I am very pleased to have four images on display at The Art Center, Highland Park. The first two are in the exhibit entitled "Explorations: New Work by New Artists" and the second two are in the "Unbound" show. All four pieces are for sale direct from the artisit or from the Art Center. The exhibits open on November 20 and run until January 4.

Location executive portrait photography by Highland Park photographer Robert Tolchin currently running in a national businiess publication.

Sometimes you just have to.

Earlier this week we photographed this amazing gentleman for a hospital annual report. Nice shot. Color, full page, annual report photo. Maybe portfolio worthy, maybe not. But before we moved on to our next set-up, I knew what I had to do. As I directed the subject, Angela moved the lights into position. Two minutes.

Sometimes you just have to.

Hospital advertisisng photography by Lake Bluff photographer Robert Tolchin.

It has been said that the best camera is the one you have with you. Only sometimes it's not a camera at all, it's a telephone. iPhone photo of sunset over Wrigley Field by Highland Park photographer Bob Tolchin.

Where Pacmans go to die?

"...it gives us those nice bright colors

Gives us the greens of summers...

I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph

So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away..."

- Paul Simon

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R.I.P. Kodachrome

1935 - June 22, 2009

Executive portrait photography currently running in a national business publication.

"I photograph to see what things look like photographed."

- Garry Winogrand

Bonny and I shot this magazine cover at a lumber yard in Delavan, Wisconsin a couple of months ago. A few other shots from this assignment can be seen on my March 29 blog entry.