The Impossible Year

Tag: brown line

  • Cuyler and the Brown Line

    Cuyler and the Brown Line

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Found out that Begyle Brewing was selling their 2020 Barrel Aged Imperial Pajamas beers in cans this year and swung over to do a curbside pickup. After parking, I turned around and took this shot. One of my favorite things about Chicago is seeing the elevated train tracks running…

  • North to Ravenswood, 9 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent Tuesday biking around listening to ‘Road to the Skeleton Coast’ with Brendan Kelly, as he explains the orgins of The Lawrence Arms and how deeply tied it is to Chicago’s punk movement, and influenced by inequity. Something about this empty lot alongside a…

  • Montrose Brown Line, 27 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) It’s strange to see the CTA virtually empty… err what you can see of it. Just take my word.

  • Vacant Seats on the Brown Line Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection I love these weird little felt like / cloth seats that are still on some of our CTA cars. I can’t imagine they will be around much in the future.

  • Below the Southport Brown Line on a Wednesday… Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Relatively dull, the Divvys are a nice touch though.

  • Exit Only Polaroid Spectra Procam / Impossible PZ-680 Color Shade COOL 5*12 I walk out through this turnstile nearly every day. Yesterday the pattern of lines intrigued me enough to take this photograph.

  • Adams / Wabash Polaroid Spectra Procam / Impossible PZ-680 Color Protection 11*12 Wandered around the loop for a while before hopping back on the trains, stumbled onto this great overpass vantage point. Things like this make me love humanity.

  • Southport Brown Line Polaroid SX-70 AutoFocus / Impossible PX-70 Color Protection Speaking of things I’ve shot before, here is one from a new angle. A bit overexposed, I forget to consider this stuff with the SX-70 but I like it anyway.

  • Southport Brown Line Polaroid SLR 680 / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Waiting for a train downtown.

  • Blurry Brown Line Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Shade COOL Forgot to turn my flash on for this shot but wound up loving how it looked so I kept it.