The Impossible Year

Tag: winter

  • State of the Alley

    State of the Alley

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 It feels like the snow accumulation is never-ending and that it’ll never fully melt. 

  • Ravenswood Tree

    Ravenswood Tree

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Ran some errands with Katie today and after dropping her off I was driving down Ravenswood and just appreciating the landscaped retainer walls on the west side of the tracks. These evergreen trees do wonders to dampen the sound of the trains and to liven up the area. I…

  • Montrose & Wolcott, 31 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   New Years Eve was a quiet one for us. The sky was clear, the weather was chilly but not horrible.  I made a stop at Chicago’s Pizza for a slice to go and picked up coffee from Starbucks since all of the good…

  • Cuyler Avenue, 20 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   A friend went out of town with his family briefly and had me bring in packages.

  • A Dusting, 16 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   We got the first noticeable amount of snow for the season.

  • Snowy Wrigley Field Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible Color Film 11*13 Got to personally walk around Wrigley Field in the snow to pick out my season ticket seats.

  • Morning at Addison Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Sometimes I train downtown to work from the Addison Red Line station.

  • Accumulation Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Yesterday was the first significant accumulation of the year. Here’s my Prius sitting in the unplowed Chicago street.

  • McKinley Park Warehouse Fire Polaroid Spectra ProCam / Impossible PZ-680 Color Protection Lexi and I went to check out the warehouse fire on the south side that had made national news. As you can see the building is icing over due to the cold weather. It’s kind of amazing. I put more photos on Flickr.

  • Proof of Winter Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Shade 11*11 Despite how gorgeous it has been the last few days making it feel like spring this tree is as barren as ever.