The Impossible Year

  • August 27, 2020

    Leland Slow Street, 21 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Chicago has converted several residential streets throughout the city to ‘slow streets’ to allow neighbors to work out, play or socialize safely. 

  • August 24, 2020

    Montrose and Ashland, 20 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Been trying more of these night shots. I set this one up and deliberately snapped it as a car sped by. Need to work on better framing to avoiding lens flares more though.

  • August 23, 2020

    Norwood Hand Car Wash, 19 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I biked by this on my evening route the other night and I just loved the way the light hit it.

  • August 23, 2020

    Hexa Air Filter Mask, 18 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Several years ago, in the pre-pandemic days, I ordered a custom designed and engineered air filter mask on Kickstarter, thinking it might be useful for cycling downtown to work so I’m not breathing in car exhaust fumes constantly. As with many Kickstarter…

  • August 23, 2020

    Wrigley Field Marquee, 17 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Wrigleyville was eerie quiet while a Cardinals home game took place without fans to watch it. Truly surreal.

  • August 23, 2020

    Welles Park, 16 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   We cycled up to Welles Park and had a socially distanced lunch with Katie in the shade.

  • August 21, 2020

    Figure Model, 15 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) Hopefully the last of this series as this film has been finished, and now i need to clean the camera from all the leaks it created. However this image is perhaps the clearest visible one yet showing the wooden drawing manikin that stands on my desk.

  • August 20, 2020

    Comics, 14 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Years ago I bought these frames with the intention of hanging my favorite “key” issues of comics I love. They look amazing and they make me smile when I walk by them every day.

  • August 18, 2020

    Tree Scraps, 13 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Driving through the neighborhood a common sight is just piles of fallen branches on street corners and bleeding into the street. At least this one got a no parking sign on the tree next to it.

  • August 18, 2020

    Bekki, 12 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   We drove down to Berwyn to visit our friend Bekki and drop off towels and utensils that we no longer needed. We sat in front of her place, had a nice socially distant conversation, and it almost felt like normal times for a moment.

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The Impossible Year

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