Last Friday was DeKalb High School’s first home football game in a very long time. That’s because despite having a football team, they don’t have a stadium. For years they have been playing at Northern Illinois University’s football field.
Maybe it was a lack of ownership, or how the school couldn’t collect money at the concession [...]
There is proliferation of “fests” in DeKalb County. Midwest Fest, Kish Fest, Odd Fest…
But I think the original (not sure of this), and most influential, is Corn Fest. Possibly the quirkiest booth at this year’s Corn Fest was a barbershop quartet selling elephant ears out of an old trailer.
The Kish-Wau-Keys were frying dough and covering [...]
This morning I was photographing the opening of a coffee shop in a retirement community in DeKalb. I made the image on the left when I saw these two elderly gentlemen talking over coffee at a table with a clean orange background. It immediately made me think of an image I took almost exactly a [...]
Shot my first high school game of the season yesterday. On top of high school sports, I am very excited to go to Iowa State to shoot NIU football’s season opener. I think I may even get to throw a Bears game in there!
Canon 1D Mark 3 with 300mm f2.8
Here is another update of work from the last two weeks. Well, two or three may be older than that, but I still want to share them.
This kid had the most amazing emotions during his reading/writing tutoring session in DeKalb, Ill. This was how he reacted when he correctly wrote the letter “G.”
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Posted 29 July 2010
† Beck Diefenbach
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