 Hey America, I'm Luke Moyer. That's weird. Uh, let's just say it. America, I'm Luke Moyer. I'm in the Navy. Hey America, I'm Luke Moyer. And there we go. And I'm a photographer in and out of the Navy. Alright, welcome to Chicago, the Windy City. So a lot of people don't know, uh, in Chicago it's called the Windy City. They think it's because of the wind. It's not. It's actually because of this ship right here. The Windy. Uh, it is very windy in the middle of winter, so I'm pretty pumped to be outside right now. But, uh, seriously though, I love just going out to the city taking photos. Right now we're going to be going to, uh, what's called the Bean, which is a Chicago landmark that's pretty much a giant stainless steel bean. So, it's going to be great. Alright. It's cold. Real cold. Everyone else took my hand warmers, so. So today we're in Libertyville, because, uh, yesterday we were in Chicago and it was a little bit, uh, too cold. Uh, the way it works in Illinois is the weather bumps about 20 degrees every day, so never know what you're going to get. So, yeah, we're just going to go around the street today and see if we can find some cool stuff. It used to be a lot scarier when I would go home and upload my photos to edit. Um, back when I was first starting out, you would take, say, 100 photos. You'd be happy if five came out. When I go somewhere and I experience something, if it's a place where I can take photos and kind of document it, uh, I will. Actually, I have a pretty bad memory with a lot of things, so I kind of like having the, uh, the visual, uh, history of the places I've been. I've always been interested in photography, uh, and art in general. And, uh, I never really had a camera until I was in high school. I took a photography course and I was able to actually get my hands on a camera and use it. And then I always kind of planned on joining the military, uh, just to pay for college and kind of get a jumpstart on my life. I didn't want to have the debt that my brother and sister had going straight into college. And then, uh, I was originally going to join the Air Force, but they never called back. So, I, uh, I went to the Navy website and I was kind of looking for photography jobs and ended up finding, uh, Mass Communication Specialist, which is exactly what I was looking for. Alright, thanks for hanging out with me in Libertyville. Uh, we're going to try to go to Chicago again tomorrow. It's supposed to be a little bit warmer than the last time. So, uh, whoop, uh, I gotta run and pick up my wife. Don't worry, I made it in time. Alright, we're back in Chicago. And, uh, it's a little warmer out today, which is good, so let's go see if we can So, every city is kind of different in terms of, uh, photography and kind of the feel of it, uh, especially, uh, I grew up in Las Vegas, which everyone sees as, like, casinos and the strip and everything, but once you get outside of the main downtown area, uh, it's just a bunch of suburbs and small buildings and stuff, so being in a city like Chicago where, you know, for miles and miles, there's all these huge buildings. It's really, uh, really a different environment to try to take photos of and it's really a different kind of feel that you want to capture. So, some of my favorite photos, which was a hard question for me, because they kind of change constantly, but, um, Fourth of July in Hawaii on deployment, we just went to the beach and see the fireworks and I kind of built a little sand, uh, pile camera up on it and took, uh, some pictures and I ended up getting this really cool, um, firework going off, really cool colors, and then this guy with his hair blown back looks like the fireworks, like, crazy explosive and awesome. This one is one from when, uh, Vice President, uh, Joe Biden came and visited, uh, my ship. I got to follow him around, uh, for the day and kind of be his, uh, photographer for the day, which is really cool because when he was talking to everyone on our ship, I just kind of dropped the camera on the ground and hoped that it would kind of make a cool photo and ended up being really cool with the lights they had set up for him and then everyone watching him and, uh, he's just kind of cool lid, he's got, like, an outlined light, uh, just one of my favorite photos, just compositionally really cool. All right, so this is, uh, Cloud Gate, or as a lot of people refer to in Chicago as the Bean, uh, it's a really famous Chicago landmark. I came here to get some cool photos of it. I really wanted a photo that didn't have any people in it and so the way I had to do that is I pretty much, uh, take a bunch of photos. I think I took 60 photos of it, uh, over the amount of time, so I'll be able to take it into Photoshop and kind of layer all those photos together and actually get a shot of, uh, the statue or the, uh, the Cloud Gate without any people in it. So, hoping it works out. Well guys, thanks for having a day with Luke. Uh, he probably didn't feel the cold as much as I did, but, you know, I hope you all had a good time. I'm just glad that the military gave me the opportunity to be a photographer at work and a photographer in my personal life. See you guys later.