“In early 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was put in place to jump start the economy and fix a number of everyday needs across America.  A number of new and re-development projects were put in place within Illinois.  Stimulus projects have been focused within the areas of eduction, housing and energy, health and human services, public safety, transportation and infrastructure, broadband technology, general workforce development and retention and within the water and sewer main industry.

Miller + Miller was recently commission to capture photographically a few ongoing construction projects underway by an Illinois based consulting and engineering firm.  We arrived on location at the construction site to capture under-construction marketing photographs documenting the engineering company’s newest and active projects.  The Chicago area firm has expertise and experience in providing improvements, repairing and expanding of water and wastewater infrastructures and facilities.  No only does the firm have a  focus on water and wastewater markets, but also in aviation, highways & bridges, and land development.  We look forward to hearing about your company’s photography and marketing needs.  Submit your inquiry on our contact page and include within your contact a description of your photographic needs.”

Miller + Miller Photography is an Northern Illinois Architectural Photography Company providing commercial marketing photography for a variety of marketing departments, clients and industries including the engineering industry, consulting, product, construction, development or building industries.  Ryan and Sarah Miller are the owners and photographers of the photography company and are available for traveling photo projects within Illinois or to capture photo projects outside of the state of IL.  

If you impress your audience with great imagery, your are making a great first impression. Great first impressions draw the consumer in, often leading them to narrowing down their options quicker, and eventually lead to decision making and closed sales. When selling architecture or real estate, the first photo a potential buyer sees of a penthouse condo, luxury home or apartment, should be a strong representation of the community and the home.  Less-than-flattering pictures can turn buyers off and lead to lonely open houses.

We enjoy our loyal clients who come back to us for repeat interior and exterior photography projects.  One client mentioned after implementing their first home’s photos, a new home buyer and customer mentioned “upon first seeing this amazing photo, I knew I wanted to live in life in that photo and enjoy that lifestyle.”   Through the use of photography and building a company’s corporate image or company brand with photographs, developers, builders, marketing experts and more commonly say establishing a brand can create an impact on your audience.

As Chicago architectural photographers, we are capable of not only interior and exterior home photography such as the photographs previewed above, but we offer the option to provide photos beyond the single property or typical home photos.  Often we are commissioned to not only capture indoor and outdoor home photos of our client’s personal residence or the agent’s listed home, whether being a residential location such as a rooftop penthouse, loft, condominium, or luxury townhome or photos of a commercial property, photography of a new condo construction project in Chicago, multi unit suburban or downtown development, or investment property, but we are happy to also provide and offer an option to upgrade our services with extra architectural photography items such as aerial photography, environment architecture photographs, lifestyle photography, nearby location landmarks, travel and leisure photography.

For this project, we photographed a two bedroom, two bath luxury condo located  in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood in a high-rise tower within the One Museum Park West Tower IV development.  With it’s ideal and prime development location on Lake Michigan, this waterfront location overlooks Chicago’s Grant Park, The Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, Solider Field Stadium, boats, yachts and Chicago Burnham Harbor.  We talked about how the One Museum Park West development offers homebuyers not only to buy an amazing property, but they are also buying a lifestyle and the nearby urban community which goes along with living in the South Loop neighborhood.  Our client decided to add on a day of Chicago architecture photographs which was beyond the real estate interior and exterior photography.  Our architecture focus was to capture lifestyle photos all within viewing distance of the penthouse condo’s balcony.  Locations included a few City landmarks viewed from the terrace such as Buckingham Fountain, pictures of the museums, Chicago yacht club, aerial photos of Soldier Field, and a full exterior skyscraper building photographs from Grant Park showcasing the properties proximity to the nearby Loop and business corridor.  This South Loop development is ideally located close for commuters into the Loop, with easy travel to downtown commercial and corporate buildings.  Within the Park West Tower IV building, we captured photos of the high-rise building’s pool and resident amenities.  The extra photographs beyond the real estate and luxury condo photography home tour pictures were a perfect compliment to help illustrate and sell a lifestyle photographically.

So whether your marketing a metropolitan landmark, looking to feature a destination or travel location through photography, or selling a property, while searching online real estate agents, sales and marketing departments, online listing services, and web designers all agree, great imagery provides to the seller or end user a great impression.  We look forward to your contact and please send us an email so we can learn more about your travel photography project, your future development either underway in construction or completed, or your luxury home or residence’s marketing photography needs.  We travel often, so our capabilities are not limited to the Northern Illinois metropolitan area.  We are available to travel to a number of destinations in urban regions, cities and towns around the U.S., and occasionally outside of the Nation for International projects.

“Above our a few samples from our two day photography session with this university and college preparatory high school, located in the Northern Illinois and Chicago area.  The day capturing architectural photography included not only campus exterior architectural photography, but also interior room photography of the old and new sections of the school, and time outdoors beyond the education section of the campus where we photographed the school, university and college sport stadium, parks and fields.

After discussing with the school’s marketing department their communication and visual needs, they booked more than one day with us and we captured pictures of the building’s recent additions and renovations to campus academic buildings, classrooms, lecture halls and more providing photos for the school’s public relations, press, development needs.  The campus tour photos were incorporated into the school’s recent web design update and printed brochures.  Today a year later after the shoot, our contact at the school replied saying  ”Thank you Sarah and Ryan. Your photography has helped our school’s marketing pieces and website standout. ”

With several public and private educational institutions in the Chicago suburbs and the metropolitan Chicago area the development department decided to updated the school’s design materials by enhancing the designs with not only a new up to date logo, information and web site, but they also contacted us for commercial photography of the students and interior and exterior building photos helping to enhance the image of the campus inviting future students to visit and enjoy the school.”

“The development department of this private school contacted us mentioning their need to incorporate up to date and captivating visual pictures of their campus within their redevelopment of the school’s marketing materials.  Most importantly they wanted to provide strong imagery with a captivating and lasting first impression.

Many organizations, hospital, nursing homes, churches, universities and schools are looking to increase each year their visitors, attendance and new student population.  Marketing departments, recruiters and new development persons are becoming more aware that in this technological age we all live it, consumers respond best to strong visual images found within marketing materials.  Online, printed and press release communications in conjunction with strong images, help to provide visually an organization’s place in their region.  Images can highlight recent renovations, or more simply as we were hired as photographers for this shoot, we provided a photo tour of the existing established campus.  The campus photo tour not only included these exterior building and interior chapel photography, but also the pictures of classroom  such as science lab, the library, halls, community and lunch room spaces, computer labs, art rooms, the auditorium, and both established exterior building and the campus’s recently renovated buildings.  We also highlighted photos of the campus’s track, stadium and sports fields.”

Past photographic subjects we have photographed include college, university, high school, business, large building, hospital, church, or religious facility settings.  We look forward to your interest in Miller + Miller providing an architectural photography quote for your business or organization’s campus tour photography.  We invite you to email us though our contact form.

“Recently, a representative of the marketing department at this private academy in Illinois contacted Miller + Miller for interior architectural photography and exterior building photography, and outdoor photographs of the overall college prep campus.  We selected a beautiful, summer Illinois day with ideal outside weather conditions for this outdoor architectural photography shoot, photographing the campus’s renovated sports complex. Recently completed construction was the school and neighboring University’s new stadium and campus sports arena including the college football stadium, track and field, baseball, varsity and frosh fields, seating, refreshments and box seats.  The perfect blue sky day provided complimentary hues to the red stadium seating and track for these marketing photographs.”

Beyond the sports focused architectural shoots, we also work with the school’s marketing department capturing photos to enhance their academic’s new student communications and for the departments advertising,  marketing, online and printed collateral items purposes. Inquire via our contact page to inquire with Miller + Miller Architectural Photography to discuss photographing your district, school, college, university, or institution’s sports and athletic facilities.  Located in Chicago, we are available for local or will travel for nationwide projects.

“The Hinsdale home photography shown above boast exterior night photography from some of the most premier Chicago and Hinsdale residences.  These professionally appointed custom houses are located in the Chicago suburbs and urban downtown settings.  The builders feature the images within displays in industry publications, as editorial featured architectural magazine photography spreads in periodicals like Architectural Digest, Chicago Home  + Garden Magazine, CS Interiors Magazine, Chicago Luxe Magazine, as real estate photos for the MLS, and within PR and featured stories in local and regional newspapers.”

We are a Hinsdale Custom Home Photographer and Architectural Photography Company serving the Hinsdale area plus Elmhurst, Oakbrook Terrace, Lisle, Naperville, Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Wheaton, Lombard, Darien, WIllowbrook, La Grange, Illinois, IL and more Chicagoland communities.

Hotel Arista Naperville Illinois

Hotel Arista

CityGate Centre Naperville IL

CityGate Centre and Hotel Arista were developed by Calamos Real Estate LLC is a Chicago-based, vertically integrated national development firm which offers development, property management and facility management services.  Calamos Real Estate LLC is owned by ex fighter pilot, Vietnam veteran and self made billionaire John P. Calamos, Sr.  John Calamos founded Calamos Asset Management in 1977 and now is ranked by Forbes as the 258th-richest person in the world.

Dirk Lohan, Principal, Basil Souder, Associate Principal, of Lohan Anderson, the award-winning architectural firm were responsible for CityGate Centre’s stunning modern design.

The mixed-use development encompasses 31 acres and over 1.2 million square feet of space including office, restaurants, shops, a 144-room boutique hotel with a performing arts center and a significant retail component called The Shops at CityGate Centre.  CityGate Centre I is a 213,000 square foot Class A office building with cutting edge architecture, sustainable design and green building strategies, and includes high ceilings, indirect lighting with light harvesting, floor to ceiling glass, underfloor air distribution and energy efficient HVAC systems. The building is currently being LEED® registered by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and is anticipated to achieve a LEED® rating at a minimum. The building features large (31,000-34,000 rentable square feet) and flexible floor plans. Phase I of The Shops at CityGate Centre includes a 57,000 square foot, two story commercial retail building with architecture complementing the office building. CityGate Centre is located 30 miles west of downtown Chicago and within a 30-minute drive from O’Hare International, Midway, DuPage and Aurora airports.  One must see this complex in person to fully appreciate it.

Chicago Skyline

Here’s a Chicago Skyline Photo that I took the other night while out on a Chicago architectural photography shoot for a high rise and sky scraper developer. The Chicago skyline in my opinion is one of the most beautiful skylines in the world.

This unique estate boasts lavish interior rooms, appointed kitchen, spacious bathrooms, a lower level home theater and personalized entertainment space. Visit our interior custom home photography photo gallery for more interior rooms professional photography samples.”

We are a Custom Home Photographer and Architectural Photographer serving the Barrington area plus Spring Grove, North Chicago, North Shores, Northwestern Illinois Suburbs, Bull Valley, Prairie Grove, Volo, Lakemoor, Lake Barrington, Lake Zurich, Kildeer, Deer Park, Inverness, Palatine, Arlington Heights, Illinois, IL

For a general overview and guide to the “Home Styles in North America and Beyond”, check out this interesting web page:  about.com – architecture

We are a Luxury Home Photographer and Architectural Photography Company photographing home and architectural buildings the Evanston area plus Glencoe, Glenview, Lincolnwood Deerfield, Kenilworth, Wilmette, Winnetka, Highland Park, Libertyville, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, North Chicago, Chicago North Shore, Skokie, Winthrop Harbor, and greater Chicago Illinois, IL areas.