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Post Office Window
Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I had to take a trip to our local USPS office to mail out a print order. Usually, when I stop off here I go check my PO Box and stand by this window to sort through the arrivals, most of which go directly into recycling.
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Sheil Park
Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Was out running errands and drove by Southport’s ‘Sheil Park’ which I have never understood why it’s called a park when it’s mostly an administrative building and has zero grass but… sure.
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View from Tola
View from Tola, 30 March 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and I biked down to Jewel for groceries and stopped off at Cafe Tola for empanadas and ate them while standing against their south wall and looking out across Southport.
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Wrigleyville at Dusk
Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I stopped off at Dimo’s Pizza on my way back from Chicago Comics and appreciated the light and the looming cloudy appearance of a storm that never materialized.
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Belmont
Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Had to run some errands and it struck me that it had been a while since I’d been all the way down to Clark and Belmont. In the years I’ve lived in this city this area has changed a lot but it’s still managed to remain weird in a…
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Toons
Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Despite the (still raging) pandemic, Chicago has reopened bars and restaurants for indoor dining, which people have been more than happy to partake in on Super Bowl Sunday. I placed an order of wings for pickup from Toons to enjoy at home. For what it’s worth all of the…
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Southport and Irving, 23 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I biked down to the post office to check my PO Box and ship out a print order. Decided to stop and appreciate the street corner.
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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."
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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…
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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…