The Impossible Year

Tag: chicago transit authority

  • Belmont Flyover Crane, 9 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biking back from Chicago Comics I stopped to appreciate the clear blue sky we were having and how this crane for the CTA construction looked.

  • 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…

  • Pizza Break, 4 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I biked up to Jimmy’s Pizza Cafe in Lincoln Square and then sat on a CTA bus stop bench to eat so I could be far away from other people. Strange times we’re living in.

  • Clark and Roscoe, 8 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Wrigleyville’s landscape continues to change as, despite everything else going on, the construction never stops. The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization project, aka ‘RPM’ marches on, leveling buildings and building brutalist structure, as we march towards a faster, more efficient mass transit system. One…

  • Randolph and Wasbash Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible Color Film 11*13 ActiveCampaign closed the office Friday as we’ll all be working from home during the holidays. I managed to catch this shot while waiting for my train. It’s rare that I can get a proper night shot to then out (hard to judge how much light…

  • Morning on Wabash Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Sometimes I walk up Wabash from my girlfriend’s place to work.

  • Morning at Addison Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Sometimes I train downtown to work from the Addison Red Line station.

  • 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.

  • Addison Red Line Looking South Polaroid Spectra ProCam / Impossible PZ-680 Color Protection The view from the CTA Addison Red Line platform looking southbound down the tracks.

  • Exit Only Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection My fascination with the Southport Brown line station continues. I don’t know why I shoot it so much… It’s really not that unique.