Projecting Patterns with an Optical Spot
In March, we experimented with an optical spot lighting modifier, trying it out with some of the actors from Idle Muse Theatre Company's production of WHAT THE WEIRD SISTERS SAW. We tried…
Journey to the Eclipse, 2024
I saw the 2024 eclipse at a rest area off of I-70 around Greenfield, Indiana. I’d scouted this place out on the way to Dayton a couple days prior, hoping to pull…
Learning from Painting
Distant Era looks at the creative process through from the perspective of hobby miniature painting after an incident with a tornado in 2013…
Elizabeth MacDougald as Nightmist
Distant Era does Sentinels of the Multiverse in this quick Nightmist cosplay edit with Elizabeth MacDougald…
Disney Noir 2019
Before Distant Era, in January 2019, Mary-Kate Bullaro organized a Disney Noir shoot for her Fantasy Is Reality project. These were some of our experiments…
Preserve Your Memories
Time it was,And what a time it wasIt was . . .A time of innocenceA time of confidences Long ago . . . it must be . . .I have a photographPreserve…
The Wedding of Hannah and Max
In mid-January, Distant Era was honored to photograph the wedding of Hannah and Max among the gorgeous architecture of Chicago's City Hall…
Year Five
As 2024 begins, Distant Era starts year five in the business of fantastical portraiture, looking to the past as we plan for the future…
Gratitude 2023
Distant Era looks back on 2023 with gratitude for all the wonderful moments, clients, portraits, and conversations…
Kate’s Senior Pictures
Over the summer, we had the opportunity to make the senior pictures of one of our ORIGINAL digital photography subjects, all grown up…