tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25641017922924067162012-02-16T16:00:29.474-06:00PonderingsMental Musings and Visual Imagery by a Guy Named Greg Ponder...Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-49481813713533780902011-03-04T00:03:00.000-06:002011-03-04T00:03:56.197-06:00More Jake AsheyGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-28183336238952913742011-02-28T12:03:00.001-06:002011-02-28T12:05:31.563-06:00Jake AsheyIntroducing Jake Ashey, one half of Chicago musical comedy duo Jake and Eric...More to come!Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-5474774051454002882011-01-28T19:41:00.000-06:002011-01-28T19:42:08.661-06:00Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-57649200698950486232011-01-23T01:22:00.000-06:002011-01-23T01:22:38.208-06:00Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-30370174307619546652011-01-21T23:48:00.000-06:002011-01-21T23:48:43.573-06:00guess who?Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-16527300970519104812011-01-16T13:46:00.000-06:002011-01-16T13:46:44.227-06:00Otis ClayGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-68462822039566900682011-01-16T12:40:00.000-06:002011-01-16T12:40:34.636-06:00Otis ClayOtis Clay, one of Chicago's own. Hailing from the Westside, He truly is one of the few remaining Soul Singers...This was a great show!Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-70616834352568527962010-12-05T22:41:00.000-06:002010-12-05T22:41:43.267-06:00Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-27328971105091790282010-12-05T22:06:00.003-06:002010-12-10T10:24:42.789-06:00Gab's Work with the Chicago Wisdom ProjectThis is a shot from my day with Gab and her students from the Chicago Wisdom Project Afterschool Program. Immediately after these were taken, we drove straight to Atlanta to care for my dad, and to enjoy family for the Thanksgiving Holiday.This was a lively group of Southside youth, who "dared" experiment with life development courses after school. These were very fun images to capture, howeverGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-50510055128764936562010-02-10T22:21:00.000-06:002010-02-10T22:21:32.599-06:00Chicago Theater DistrictGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-1822436360707672372010-02-09T15:57:00.000-06:002010-02-09T15:57:18.771-06:00Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-16717325758541205092009-06-30T21:51:00.000-05:002009-06-30T21:51:47.107-05:00Kebbi WilliamsGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-54307169962103110062009-06-30T21:46:00.001-05:002009-07-10T16:17:02.000-05:00Kebbi Williams I've had the privilege of photographically following Kebbi for most of his life. And I must say, on my last visit with him he's looking rather...bohemian. Now don't get me wrong, this is in no way an insult. First of all I love Him like my own brother. Second, 32 years buys you a little leverage in the ways you can speak about a person. And lastly, Kebbi is one of the most brilliant Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-85544751126308015452009-03-30T20:28:00.004-05:002009-03-31T00:48:40.753-05:00Introducing...YW SIMONE... So it's been a while since i explored my affinity for fashion photography...a few months at least. So I now introduce YW Simone. These images were taken in Northwestern University's Englehart Hall. It just goes to show that with a little imagination, the world is a photographer's playground. Being the completely self taught photographer that i am, i pride myself in pulling my shoots together Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-18530619348770709722009-03-17T00:59:00.007-05:002009-03-17T01:33:25.232-05:00ROADSIDE DINERwordsby NAGUELYALTI WARRENPhotographyby GREG PONDER------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At night he orders Breakfast.Wants his eggs sunny-side up.The waitress doesn't understand.Brings them over easy. He sighs.She cracks gum asking is everything ok? Takes the eggs away, slow rolling her eyes. Ten silver dollar pancakes on his Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-44273525931115376702009-02-15T00:17:00.002-06:002009-02-15T00:20:44.329-06:00North to KenoshaI enjoyed my trip on the METRA. Traveling by railroad does carry a very real sense of "city-life" from an earlier period. People sitting silently, for the most part. They wear their lives on their faces. Their postures speak of the burdens they bear, or not. There's this feeling of "we're all in this together"...but we're really not.I enjoyed my trip on the METRA This day. Sometimes I feel more Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-85615550029236994582009-01-25T23:18:00.000-06:002009-01-25T23:19:02.512-06:00The KID in MeThis may be the very reason I'm sick now, but I've created this habit of taking my camera and tripod out on some of Chicago's coldest nights just to see what I come up with. Many nights, I feel scatterbrained-with no real focus. I'm at the whim of my environment. I'm left hoping to be inspired by something I see...something I appreciate on some level. Well this night, my attention was turned Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-3670485384979918322009-01-14T23:21:00.000-06:002009-01-15T00:07:23.902-06:00My next Location Shoot...I love this parking deck ... it's above ground and heated. So as long as outside temps are below freezing, it naturally fogs half of the lowest level!! I'm thinking of experimenting with some glamour type stuff ... I'll be sure to post what I come up with.Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-16995132712871865732009-01-14T23:12:00.000-06:002009-01-15T09:50:56.728-06:00Chicago way of "LIFE" It's interesting how new places provide new metaphors for life. "...don't get caught sleepin'" has been loosely injected into conversations in order to tell someone to "wake up, pay attention, get in the game" or else, suffer some debilitating, totally avoidable, waste-of-time, set back.Here in Chicago there are emergency snow routes, scheduled snow clearing times, no parking here, 20 min. Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-87185131197931784752009-01-11T18:47:00.000-06:002009-01-11T18:47:48.135-06:00And againGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-23549259566153291312009-01-10T23:10:00.000-06:002009-01-11T19:42:04.863-06:00The Photographer's Inevitable Self-PortraitGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-77837550704037400832009-01-09T01:37:00.000-06:002009-01-09T01:38:55.233-06:00"That Dude"We fellas have -"our dudes", "our homies", "family", "our aces"....all monikers for "that cat" that has been through many years of stickin' in there with you. It takes alot (...and then it doesn't) to build and maintain these kinds of relationships... as we fellas tend not to keep "folks" too close. In fact, these relationships tend to form earlier in life. Times before we build up walls or Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-62601584071835467582008-12-23T15:27:00.000-06:002008-12-23T15:28:00.565-06:00First night out in SnowGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-91243256288163797462008-11-26T22:37:00.000-06:002008-11-26T22:39:07.469-06:00Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-38649462117287530922008-11-26T22:24:00.000-06:002008-11-26T22:25:26.161-06:00Zora's (th Birthday + Her first Chicago Theater ProductionGreg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-36131341300002133192008-11-25T10:09:00.000-06:002008-11-25T10:09:57.056-06:00Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-84794880723945986542008-11-24T21:56:00.000-06:002008-11-24T21:56:50.397-06:00Happy 9th Birthday ZORA!!Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-28497983115390085132008-11-16T02:26:00.000-06:002008-11-16T02:27:11.206-06:00Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-59678166714975558602008-11-05T11:17:00.000-06:002008-11-05T11:17:30.881-06:00SKY HIGH!! ..So this is one of the views from our 10th floor apartment in Evanston.Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-27684476257919628482008-11-05T10:15:00.000-06:002008-11-05T10:52:30.434-06:00Obama wins!!!Words can not explain how truly excited I am about the future, not just of America but the entire world as a whole. There is no doubt that Barack Obama winning, holds special place in the hearts of Blacks and other non whites. But i think the larger point is that The majority of people in our country thought him to be the better person to be the leader of the most powerful nation in the world.Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-7375717566333732092008-11-02T16:00:00.000-06:002008-11-02T16:18:37.126-06:00New look....new hustle...Okay...so I'm toying around with my blog trying to get it right. I'm probably going to be rearranging things over the next few posts until I feel good about what i see. ALSO, I've decided to to try the GOOGLE ADS gadget. It's an interesting concept that presents ads that are somehow relevant to my blog, or at least the words that I type. Each click potentially makes me (very little) money.Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-45549064722137612132008-11-01T21:38:00.000-05:002008-11-01T21:58:14.904-05:00Saturday Night...Well, another day has past and I'm still trying to figure it out. What, you ask? Life!Now I know that doesn't put me in some exclusive category of rare individuals, but I'm serious guys...some days I feel lost. I've been told that I'm a step ahead of most folks in that I have discovered that which makes me happier than a fly on shit. PHOTOGRAPHY...but the question still remains of how to Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-83997265586283862212008-10-31T22:55:00.000-05:002008-10-31T22:55:58.869-05:00That's my girl...Zora!So everyone knows that Gab and I have a daughter Zora. And anyone who knows Zora, knows that she is indeed a very gifted kid. This shot was done at night in the city. We often go out shooting and I will be sure to post some of her images soon.Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564101792292406716.post-35474616780341816722008-10-29T09:03:00.000-05:002008-10-29T09:06:03.781-05:00I finally did it...Okay, it's here...Greg Ponder's official Blog. It's been an idea that i've been toying with for some time now. I've always wanted to share my images and mental musings with the world, and this seems the cheapest, most effective way to accomplish this in the short term...Greg Ponder Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691821494479966690noreply@blogger.com1