The Impossible Year

Tag: chicago

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 18 Coffees Presents: ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Drive In, 7 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 18 Coffees is a strategy firm that helps drive mission driven transformations at companies. It was founded by my friend Caleb Gardner and I’m honored to be counted among its members. On Friday, they put together a drive-in showing of ‘JoJo…