The Impossible Year

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  • Pizza from Jimmy’s, 16 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film Stopped off at Jimmy’s Pizza Cafe in Lincoln Square briefly to pick up dinner.

  • Christmas Passed, 14 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film The decorations were packed away and put back into storage leaving out living room as onr of the few relatively uncluttered places in our home at the moment. 

  • Goodbye Mystery Boots, 7 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While cleaning out the garage Beth Ann discovered a pair of boots she thought were mine. After a week of texting people in an attempt to to identify their owner we gave them away today to a friend who’s daughter will appreciate them.

  • Ravenswood South, 5 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Walking back from getting coffee I thought the scene of the construction trucks, and gray sky with the Deegan building in the back just looked nice.

  • Montrose & Wolcott, 31 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   New Years Eve was a quiet one for us. The sky was clear, the weather was chilly but not horrible.  I made a stop at Chicago’s Pizza for a slice to go and picked up coffee from Starbucks since all of the good…

  • 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.

  • Christmas Trees, 21 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Every year this little shop is set up by the Brown Line selling trees and wreaths. A semblance of normalcy.

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

  • Montrose Brown Line, 6 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I walk to the Brown line almost every morning to get my coffee and breakfast from Spoken, and yet I can’t remember the last time I rode the CTA. It’s truly surreal. I miss it like I miss a friend. Something I’d never…

  • Sugar Skull – Take 2, 30 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   A second pass of trying to photograph the sugar skull planter in the window. This time I overestimated the macro photo abilities of the SLR 680.