I spent election night last week in Glen Ellyn with the crew from Bill Foster's Campaign. I arrived to the Village Links in Glen Ellyn a bit early hoping to catch some Foster supporters hanging out and passing the time.
When I arrived I found only the organizers there...not exactly the scene I was hoping for.
I spent a few minutes walking around the clubhouse when I saw through a window that the results from the Republican primary were on a TV.
With the sun setting I knew the colors would be nice playing off the yellow light in the windows with the TV in the corner of the frame.

Like any good political figure Foster arrived about an hour after he was scheduled to have been at Village Links.
Once he walked in the room he started shaking hands with everyone there.
Knowing this was the shot I wanted, I was right next to him the whole time, as well as another photographer.
After a few handshakes I knew I had the photo I need and decided to play around a bit with a slower shutter speed.
Dragging the shutter allowed me to capture the flash of the other photographer, freezing Bill, while blurring the background.

Steve Buyansky is the photo editor for the Sun-Times Media West Group which includes The Beacon-News, The Courier-News and the Naperville Sun. He started as a photographer for the Beacon-News in 1983, became photo editor for The Herald-News in Joliet in 2000 and moved to the Sun-Times Media West office in 2009. He has a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Columbia College in Chicago.
A native of the western suburbs, Brian Powers attended both the College of
DuPage and Western Kentucky University for Photography and is continuing his
education at the University of The Aurora Beacon News. His professors
continue to push him (See Marianne Mather), but he considers himself one of
the lucky few who loves going to work everyday....well, ok, most days.
Michael Smart has been a photographer at The Courier-News/Sun-Times Media for over ten years. Smart grew up in Elgin before heading West to pursue adventures in photography and zoology, earning a bachelor’s degree in both fields. Upon returning to Elgin, he decided to pursue his true passion of photojournalism.
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