The Impossible Year

Tag: graceland west

  • Lake View High Field

    Lake View High Field

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I remember at the beginning of lockdown last year the city closed all the parks and sports fields. Now the recently refurbished turf field and track at Lake View High School has reopened and I regularly see my neighbors masked up and playing on it with their kids during…

  • 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.

  • Greenview and Pensacola, 9 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   We had a beautiful breezy day here in the city and I shot this photo while walking the dog. You can barely see it, but below the sign there are a number of leaf collection bags that Graceland West Community Association collected. as…

  • Waiting for a Ride, 9 September 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   With everyone stuck at home lots of us are doing deep cleanings. Cycling around I discovered this rain-soaked stuffed bear, in a chair, waiting to be picked up as trash. There was something beautiful and sad about it at the same time.

  • Greenview Avenue, 10 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On Monday a massive derecho swept through the Chicagoland region causing tornados along the lakefront, knocking down over 7,300 trees, and leaving over 2 million people without power. We were fortunate to be mostly spared any damage (though we did lose internet) but our neighbors…

  • 7-Eleven Clark and Southport, 5 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The intersection of Clark and Southport is prime real estate on two busy streets, with a bus stop right next to it, and immediately adjacent to an affluent residential neighborhood. A prime location for a convenience store.  Well, over the last few years 7-Eleven…

  • Tomato Plant, 4 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We’ve been growing a ‘war garden’ of sorts on out balcony since this all began and the real star has been our tomato plant which has taken off massively.