The Impossible Year

Tag: snow

  • A Trip to the Botanic Gardens

    A Trip to the Botanic Gardens

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We met up with Dan, Hande, Jessi, and David for an excursion to the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

  • Trash

    Trash

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 At the corner of Montrose and Ashland is a slowly rusting out Chicago Reader newspaper box and a trash can. Because of the massive snow accumulation of recent weeks, the trashcan is overflowing with colorful dog poop bags. This struck me this morning as very gross but also oddly…

  • State of the Alley

    State of the Alley

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 It feels like the snow accumulation is never-ending and that it’ll never fully melt. 

  • Ravenswood Tree

    Ravenswood Tree

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Ran some errands with Katie today and after dropping her off I was driving down Ravenswood and just appreciating the landscaped retainer walls on the west side of the tracks. These evergreen trees do wonders to dampen the sound of the trains and to liven up the area. I…

  • Plow Pile

    Plow Pile

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I just thought this was an interesting contrast as we had a clear blue sky and a massive pile of snow at the end of our easement.

  • Echo Base Balcony

    Echo Base Balcony

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Decided to take the snow as an opportunity to do a little bit of Lego Star Wars photography.

  • 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.

  • 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.