White space between header and nav menu

Hello,
I have reviewed many posts with a similarly described problem but none of the solutions have worked for me.

I am new to wordpress and the concept of child themes.

When I first setup the twentyfourteen theme with my header and nav menu everything looked good and there was no extra space. I then attempted to setup a child theme and even though my child theme css file has nothing in it, a strange side affect was produced. A thin strip of white space appeared between my header image and my top nav menu. It is distracting to say the least.

See http://www.lobdellphotography.com

To add to the confusion I decided to remove the child theme setup completely thinking I could troubleshoot it later… I deleted the entire directory and activated the original theme through the dashboard but now the white space remains regardless!!

I went ahead and reinstalled the child theme and activated it again in an attempt to find a solution through the css file… but I have had no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Wes