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Montrose and Paulina, 11 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 A day after a massive storm, the Ravenswood Elementary School had a sign up that said ‘Have a Nice Day’ while a large section of the community was still without power.
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Greenview Avenue, 10 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On Monday a massive derecho swept through the Chicagoland region causing tornados along the lakefront, knocking down over 7,300 trees, and leaving over 2 million people without power. We were fortunate to be mostly spared any damage (though we did lose internet) but our neighbors…
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Unknown, 9 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) More of the expired film in the Onestep 2. You can see the developer pods are leaking everywhere which are gumming up the rollers and marking up the film.
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Shoes by a Sewing Machine, 8 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) Bust out some old unlabeled Impossible experimental film from the fridge. It was less than successful.
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Relaxing Outside Medvet, 6 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Every week we’ve been needing to take the dog to physical therapy appointments at MedVet to deal with her back and joint pain. The appointments last an hour and leave me or Beth Ann with time to kill waiting around to pass the time…
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7-Eleven Clark and Southport, 5 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The intersection of Clark and Southport is prime real estate on two busy streets, with a bus stop right next to it, and immediately adjacent to an affluent residential neighborhood. A prime location for a convenience store. Well, over the last few years 7-Eleven…
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Tomato Plant, 4 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We’ve been growing a ‘war garden’ of sorts on out balcony since this all began and the real star has been our tomato plant which has taken off massively.
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Firecakes, 3 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann’s favorite donuts come from Firecakes and they are one of our favorite local businesses. She placed an order for pick up and I biked down to Lincoln Park to get them.
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Leslie and the Wheel, 2 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We are renting a pottery wheel from Lillstreet so that Beth Ann can do pottery work even though Lillstreet does not have open studio hours. As such, we’ve converted out garage to be a workspace, and Leslie came over the other night and…