The Impossible Year

Tag: covid-19

  • Bike at Lakeview Station Post Office, 20 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) I’ve been making regular trips to my local post office to order stamps and mail orders from my design shop.

  • Tomb of a Dog, 19 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Wandering through Graceland Cemetery we found this dog shaped headstone. There were no markings to indicate the ownership but it was coincidentally located right next to a bunch of Morrison family plots, which only makes me want to learn more.

  • Daily Walks, 18 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) It was a gorgeous day so the three of us took a family walk.

  • Marla, 17 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) This is Marla our lovely little mutt with her own Instagram. Due to the lockdown we’re unable to get her groomed, which you can see she is desperately in need of. She’s loving having us both around full time.

  • Wrigley Field / Lakeview Pantry, 16 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Today the Chicago Cubs announced they will convert Wrigley Field to serve as a packaging and distribution for Lakeview Pantry to help provide nutrition assistance to Chicagoans in need during the pandemic. The mayor held her daily press conference from outside the…

  • 100 Acre Woods Gang, 15 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Shortly after leaving my job in 2018 I went to see ‘Christopher Robin’ in theaters. I was facing such a severe case of burnout that the film resonated with me in a way that I wasn’t expecting. I then learned that…

  • USPS, 14 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) This week I made There are few more essential parts of our system than the USPS. The fact that there is discussion of it becoming insolvent during the pandemic is heartbreaking to me. Today I mailed out over 60 handwritten postcards to members…

  • Angela aka #StoriesFromSixFeet, 13 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Today, I had the privilege of meeting (from a safe distance, while wearing PPE) Angela Conners Treimer who is conducting a portrait project visiting people and photographing them, from a distance, during the pandemic to share their stories. Follow her project here: https://www.instagram.com/StoriesFromSixFeet/

  • Easter Morning Line at Lost Larson, 12 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) We placed a pick up order from Lost Larson so we’d have something special to enjoy on this beautiful Easter morning. I biked up and soon found myself in a self organizing social distancing line. It’s encouraging to see people…

  • A Clean Garage, 11 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) So, today’s photo really doesn’t do justice to the work that was accomplished, but I vacuumed out our car, reorganized our portion of the shared garage and then swept out the whole thing. It was some great cardio work and really…