The Impossible Year

Tag: park

  • Gill Park

    Gill Park

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We met up with Jess and hung out in Gill Park. I’d never been there before but there was a really special feeling about it. There were people walking around in the distance, beautiful street art on the sides of buildings, and just the right amount of sun and…

  • 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.

  • Night Tennis, 28 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On my evening ride I encountered people playing tennis in Horner Park. There was something really beautiful about watching just shapes in the dark under a bright glare.

  • Little League in Winnemac Park, 25 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We spent part of the day in Winnemac Park to celebrate our friend Carrie’s birthday from a responsible distance. Towards the end of our time there a flock of little leaguer baseball players and parents flooded the ballfields. It’s hard to believe…

  • St. Boniface Cemetery, 5 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible 600 Color (Expired) Stopped off at St. Boniface on my ride today and tried again to work with this expired film.

  • ALT Riverbank Neighbors Park, 2 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2 / Impossible CR (Expired) Today I decided to bike the Berteau Avenue greenway west until I found the nature trails along the Chicago River aka ‘Riverbank Neighbors Park.’ So I dismounted and hiked for a bit, stopping along the water to watch the birds and…

  • Weekend in CaliforniaImpossible Color Protection / Impossible Color 2.0 Pioneer Edition Spent the weekend in California for a wedding and a shoot. Took the opportunity to explore Marin County specifically the Point Reyes Lighthouse, where we went whale watching, Stinson Beach… because why not?, Muir Woods because it’s the obvious inspiration for Endor, and then…

  • Columbia’s New “Park?” Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Columbia College took an empty lot on Wabash in the South Loop and turned it into a gravel grounded park with planters with crops in them. I’m not entirely sure what the vision is for it, especially since it didn’t open until summer was…

  • Full Moon Fire Jam Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Outdoors at night with a powerful flash doesn’t work for a 680 no matter how many people. You can’t tell but there is a massive crowd standing and sitting there.

  • Jess Godwin at Ravenswood Manor Park Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Jess played a small but engaging show in a local park.