The "Research Division."

It was the holiday break of 2008 when Venkman and I struggled through a maze of dead plant life and stoic tree branches covering the asphalt path that had once been a driveway. Walking right past the empty, crumbling guard shack and into the complex's courtyard, the rare Midwest winter sunlight glimmered off the eerie, metallic lettering on the front of the building which read: Research Division.

Six New Prints for Sale (only four left)!

"Deck the Halls with Photos of Abandoned Buildings!"

Christmas is a week from Friday, Hanukkah has already started and I'm sure everyone has someone they have to get a birthday gift for sooner or later. Maybe you just want to spruce up your apartment/residence with some cool local photo work. What makes it even cooler? These prints are from places most people would never go to or haven't been to, they capture the city we all live in and around in a unique way.

The (Cincinnati) Money Problem

I transferred from Ohio University to Northern Kentucky University last Spring, but didn't start my first semester at NKU until August of 2009. While I'm still studying photography, just not Photojournalism exclusively, I was required to take a fine art foundations class as part of my degree study. I think I'm one of a few in the class that isn't a fine arts major, really into fine art or an extremely critical prick (not that all fine arts majors, people in this class or people who appreciate art are "pricks," but lets just say there are a few classmates who are a little too full of themselves and their work).

The "Greatest Show in Town."

It's not Ringling Brothers and it's not Cirque du Soleil, but it's a Cincinnati tradition that has traversed other mid-western cities and the entire nation since 1906. Usually stopping for three days of shows in the Queen City, the Syrian Shrine Circus has been hosted by both the Cincinnati Gardens and the Schumacher Center on UC's campus over the years, providing a more intimate and unique view into the American three-ring circus tradition that is rarely found today.

"Always Coca Cola"

Standing at the base of a pile of ruble that had once been 1/4 of the Ault & Wiborg Building, one couldn't help but remember the slogan that had been used from 1993-2000 by the soft drink giant who used this building as a billboard for so many years.

Thirty Years Later and No Memorial to those who died in The Who Concert Tragedy

It was exactly thirty years ago today that eleven concertgoers were trampled to death outside of what was then known as Riverfront Coliseum. As rock legends, The Who, began their sound check that evening, thousands of spectators crowded outside, pushed forward mistakenly thinking the concert was starting. Eventually arena officials opened the doors to the swarming crowd, the problem was they had hardly opened any doors at all.


- US Bank Arena downtown, formerly known as the Riverfront Coliseum and completed in 1975, was the site of "The Who Concert Tragedy" on December 3rd, 1979.