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Hexa Air Filter Mask, 18 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Several years ago, in the pre-pandemic days, I ordered a custom designed and engineered air filter mask on Kickstarter, thinking it might be useful for cycling downtown to work so I’m not breathing in car exhaust fumes constantly. As with many Kickstarter…
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Wrigley Field Marquee, 17 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Wrigleyville was eerie quiet while a Cardinals home game took place without fans to watch it. Truly surreal.
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Welles Park, 16 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We cycled up to Welles Park and had a socially distanced lunch with Katie in the shade.
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Figure Model, 15 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) Hopefully the last of this series as this film has been finished, and now i need to clean the camera from all the leaks it created. However this image is perhaps the clearest visible one yet showing the wooden drawing manikin that stands on my desk.
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Comics, 14 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Years ago I bought these frames with the intention of hanging my favorite “key” issues of comics I love. They look amazing and they make me smile when I walk by them every day.
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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.
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Bekki, 12 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We drove down to Berwyn to visit our friend Bekki and drop off towels and utensils that we no longer needed. We sat in front of her place, had a nice socially distant conversation, and it almost felt like normal times for a moment.
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Montrose and Paulina, 11 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 A day after a massive storm, the Ravenswood Elementary School had a sign up that said ‘Have a Nice Day’ while a large section of the community was still without power.
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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…
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Unknown, 9 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) More of the expired film in the Onestep 2. You can see the developer pods are leaking everywhere which are gumming up the rollers and marking up the film.