The Impossible Year

Tag: quarantine

  • May The Fourth Be With You, 4 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Last year Beth Ann and I went to Disneyland and splurged on some custom lightsabers. This year we had a mock dual on the lawn.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Graceland Cemetery, 4 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible 600 Color (Expired) I had a number of failures shooting today as the next film packs I pulled out have both been bad. That’s what you get when you store things for 6+ years. This is from a drive through Graceland Cemetery that my wife and…

  • Heart O’ Chicago Motel, 3 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2 / Impossible CR (Expired) Today I biked through Broadway Avenue in Uptown, and Edgewater until I hit Ridge, I then followed Ridge until I hit this beautiful old place and took Ravenswood south back home.

  • ALT Riverbank Neighbors Park, 2 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2 / Impossible CR (Expired) Today I decided to bike the Berteau Avenue greenway west until I found the nature trails along the Chicago River aka ‘Riverbank Neighbors Park.’ So I dismounted and hiked for a bit, stopping along the water to watch the birds and…