The Impossible Year

Tag: lakeview

  • Marla in the Snow

    Marla in the Snow

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We got hit with a huge amount of snow that piled higher than even the dog. Thankfully our neighbors moslty shoveled / plowed so Marla and I were able to take a good walk. I let her off leash briefly and got her to sit next one of the…

  • Alleyway Sundown

    Alleyway Sundown

    Alleyway Sundown, 28 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I just thought there was something pretty about the sky and the negative space created between the buildings, trees, and wires.

  • Rayan Plaza

    Rayan Plaza

    Rayan Plaza, 27 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600  Snapped this while stopped at a light on my way back from picking up my weekly treat of comic books and pizza. The contrast of the colorful signs and Divvy bikes with the otherwise muted palette of the scene just felt interesting to me.

  • MLK Quote, 20 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On this Inauguration Day I found myself driving past the Metro and was struck by the MLK quote that had been set on the Metro marquee “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." 

  • Snow Covered Greenview

    Snow Covered Greenview

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While we’ve had a few days of accumulation before, we got our first real snow storm of the season. For all the bad rap the weather in this city gets, Chicago is remarkably beautiful in the snow.

  • Chicago Comics + Clark Street Looking South, 13 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film  Took my weekly trip to pick up comics, and show this looking South past the store. I then dropped the phot in my bag with my books. The cold weather caused the film to discolor like that, usually I keep…

  • Katie and the Tamale Spaceship, 2 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and Katie had recently driven by the Tamale Spaceship while out and about and decided to make it their mission to track it down. Thankfully it wasn’t very hard as we learned it would be parked on Southport Avenue on…

  • Bombastic Cafe Window, 30 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   The window of Bombastic Cafe on the southport corridor has a skeleton in a plague mask and another with a lightbulb in its mouth. A delightful amount of weird for a neighborhood not exactly known for being edgy.

  • Faintly Falling Ashes, 29 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   The year decided not to go quietly as Chicago got hit with a thick batch of snow and temperatures below freezing for days. But at least it looked pretty.

  • A Dusting, 16 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   We got the first noticeable amount of snow for the season.