The Impossible Year

Tag: montrose avenue

  • Corinne, Morgan, and Avery

    Corinne, Morgan, and Avery

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Corinne, Morgan, and their two daughters Avery and Margot were passing through from Grand Rapids and swung by to say hello and trade regional beers. Morgan and I, for a few years now, have a shared Apple note where we keep a running ledger of beers we pick up…

  • Trash

    Trash

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 At the corner of Montrose and Ashland is a slowly rusting out Chicago Reader newspaper box and a trash can. Because of the massive snow accumulation of recent weeks, the trashcan is overflowing with colorful dog poop bags. This struck me this morning as very gross but also oddly…

  • Montrose

    Montrose

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I know I’ve taken several shows of this particular area, but I had to run over to Lillstreet to pick something up and thought the snowy appearance looked remarkably pretty.

  • La Sierra Mural / Snowy Paulina

    La Sierra Mural / Snowy Paulina

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 At the corner of Montrose and Paulina there used to be an Ecuadorian restaurant called ‘La Sierra’ it closed a few years ago and was replace by a Venezuelan restaurant, ‘Bien Me Sabe’ who thankfully kept the mural.

  • 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.

  • Christmas Trees, 21 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Every year this little shop is set up by the Brown Line selling trees and wreaths. A semblance of normalcy.

  • 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…

  • ComEd Construction, 19 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   The day before my birthday ComEd began jackhammering and ripping up the street in front of our house without any warning.

  • Montrose and Ashland, 20 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Been trying more of these night shots. I set this one up and deliberately snapped it as a car sped by. Need to work on better framing to avoiding lens flares more though.

  • Tree Scraps, 13 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Driving through the neighborhood a common sight is just piles of fallen branches on street corners and bleeding into the street. At least this one got a no parking sign on the tree next to it.